Charts – 22 February 2015
I did think about doing a post for WWE Fast Lane but, well, the undercard is hardly a source of inspiration to anyone, is it? So let’s do the charts instead. This would have been an almost completely dead week were it not for a couple of late new entries.
37. Florence + The Machine – “What Kind Of Man”
Wolverines vol 1 – “Dancing With The Devil”
We’ve accumulated quite the backlog while I’ve been otherwise occupied. So let’s start with Wolverines vol. 1, which covers the first five issues of the series. For one thing, it’s the longest-outstanding review. And for another, it’s a weekly series, so the book is already halfway through volume 2.
Marvel aren’t generally that keen on the weekly format. They tried it with Amazing Spider-Man for a while, but for the most part they’ve been content to leave it to DC. DC, in turn, has had mixed results with it both commercially and (even more) creatively.
Charts – 15 February 2015
Alright, then. We’ll get back to a reviewing schedule at the weekend, when we’ll start catching up on Wolverines vol 1, the final X-Force arc, All-New‘s trip to the Ultimate Universe, and Uncanny‘s curious decision to whack the reset button only a handful of months away from the universe-wide whacking of the reset button.
But in the meantime, let’s run through this week’s chart while it’s still vaguely topical.
27. Imagine Dragons – “I Bet My Life”
Charts – 8 February 2015
So, yeah, still no time to write any reviews this week. Wolverines vol 1 is next in the queue. But let’s get the chart post done, since it’s another short one (and largely written already). So much for last week’s burst of new releases…
39. Kodaline – “Honest”
Charts – 1 February 2015
All-New X-Factor vol 3 – “Axis”
Don’t panic. Take deep breaths. This is the last Axis story we have to cover.
Actually, only three of these issues – #15-17 – are Axis tie-ins. Before that, we have a couple of issues in which Quicksilver rebuilds his relationship with Luna (which is basically Pietro taking a bit of responsibility and winning back some trust), and Lorna builds some bridges with Wanda (just in time for Axis to retcon away the relationship that makes that story worthwhile, so that’s odd). And after the tie-in, well, it’s cancellation time.
Charts – 25 January 2015
Our run of exceedingly dull charts finally comes to an end… next week. This week, though, there’s virtually nothing happening at all. Not on the singles chart, at any rate – the album release schedules are at least back in business.
2. Meghan Trainor – “Lips Are Movin”
Royal Rumble 2015
Oh, alright, then. I’m going to watch this show, so why not set out a few thoughts as I do that, and open a comments thread for anyone who wants to chip in?
I’m watching this on Monday night on Apple TV – which, by the way, doesn’t have a WWE Network app in the UK, whatever the WWE website may claim, so I’m Airplaying it from an iPad, which is terribly convenient.
Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program
We’re running a few weeks behind here – the first Wolverines arc will be finished imminently, come to think of it – but let’s not allow Weapon X Program to completely pass us by. That said. we probably need to say a few worlds about Secret Wars first, don’t we?
The official line from Marvel is that Secret Wars represents the end of the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe, after which we’re going to get “Battleworld”, which seems to be some sort of mash-up of alternate worlds and such forth. This is, pretty obviously, what Jonathan Hickman has been building to in Avengers for a while, and also what Brian Bendis has been moving towards with all the stuff about time breaking down, as which of course forms the central premise of All-New X-Men.
Chikara 15.1: “A New Start”
So, then. As trailed last month, we’re going to take a crack at covering the 2015 Chikara season. We won’t be doing every show – probably just the main ones to check in on how they’re doing, and I might do them as reviews rather than previews, given that I suspect relatively few readers of this blog are actually watching. Obviously we’re moving here into territory which far fewer people will be familiar with here, but quite aside from being a far more entertaining use of my time, I do think Chikara makes an interesting contrast with the dominant product.
This is also going to be a very long post, since there’s a lot to set up here – not just the show, but the promotion as a whole and many of the characters. And I haven’t had as much time as I’d have liked to cut down the first draft, but hey, the show’s on Sunday.
Let’s start with a primer on how things work in Chikara.
