Infinite Crisis #4

Here's the gorgeous George Perez cover to January's Infinite Crisis #4, an homage to the cover of the first issue of it predecessor, Crisis on Infinite Earths. If you can't see the pic below (or if you just want to see it bigger), just click on the header above.

For the rest of DC's books in January, click here.

Watchmen named one of Time's All-time Novels

This week Time magazine released its list of the Top 100 novels released since 1923. Named to the list -- the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons' graphic novel materpiece Watchmen.

From the article:

Told with ruthless psychological realism, in fugal, overlapping plotlines and gorgeous, cinematic panels rich with repeating motifs, Watchmen is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium.

If you haven't read it, you can't call yourself a comic book fan.

Bring Your Heroes Home

Tomorrow is a big day of superheroes on DVD fans, especially Batman fans. Look for:

• Batman Begins arrives in one - and two-disc versions.
• The four previous Batman movies are available as individual two-disc sets, or as an eight-disc collection
• The direct-to DVD animated Batman vs. Dracula debuts (it will also premiere on Cartoon Network this Saturday at 7 pm)
• Batman - The Complete 1943 Movie Serial Collection -- the second Batman movie serial from the 1940s
• The Adventures of Superman Complete First Season (the 1950s George Reeves live-action show)

In December, the next sets of the animated Batman and Superman series from the 1990s arrive, and in Janurry, look for The Flash: The Complete TV Series, The Adventrues of Superman Complete Second Season, and Lois and Clark: The Complte Second Season.

Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys!

Find this and other words and phrases coined by The Simpsons here.