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Here’s what new this week

Trades
Black Panther: The Deadliest of the Species HC Premiere HC
Icon: A Hero’s Welcome TP New Ptg

Comics
Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink #5 (of 6) – Tattooed Man
Green Lantern #46 – John Stewart
Marvel Divas #3 (of 4) – Monica “Photon” Remabeau
Teen Titans #75 written by Felicia D. Henderson

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For those of you who missed the announcement (like me) they are canceling War Machine.   In this week Cup O’ Joe Marvel head honcho goes into the details and the future of the character.

“Why Cancel War machine? Why not put a Big artist on the book to attract attention why not try a little harder to move him from behind Tony Starks shadow and establish him as his own character by putting him on an Avengers book or something?”

Joe Quesada: Here’s the skinny  when you ask, why not just put a BIG artist on the book to attract attention, you make it sound like we operate under a business practice that just tells creators what they have to do as opposed to what they like to work on. Also, let me add that Leo Manco is an AMAZING artist and has done the work of his life on “WM,” and Greg Pak is one of the industry’s top writers, so we put some of our best creative talent on the title. However, in the case of “War Machine,” much like “Runaways,” we’re retooling and eventually looking to relaunch the book in a way that will garner it some extra attention and hopefully some added readers. We’ve done this quite successfully in the past, “Runaways” and “She-Hulk” being perfect examples of this, and also, while I’m not at liberty to say this, with War Machine, we have some very big plans that have been put into motion, but you’ll have to wait a bit to find out what those are. What I can say is that my gut tells me you’re going to be seeing more of Jim Rhodes doing his thing, than you ever thought possible.

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Check out these books this week:

New Avengers # 57 featuring Luke Cage
Justice League # 37 featuring Vixen and Firestorm
Super Friends #19 featuring John Stewart
The Web #1 written by Angela Robinson

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Source Scifiwire

Syfy has  a short interview with Pounder on her Mrs. Fredric  from “Warehouse 13″   Here’s some of her thought’s on the character.   On a side note if they ever make a Justice League movie she has to play Amanda Waller. ( she has already done her voice on the Justice League animated series)

1) She is autonomous. “We don’t know who she answers to,” Pounder said. “They haven’t appeared yet.”

2) We don’t know what exactly Mrs. Frederic is. “We don’t know whether she’s flesh and blood, whether she’s a hologram, whether she’s been living 40 years, 60 years, a thousand years,” Pounder says. “Whether she has been at the very beginning of the first Warehouse or whether she’s part of the reincarnated 13th Warehouse, which is what this one is.”

3) We’ve never seen her enter a room. “She arrives, and she’s there, which always gives Artie trouble [and] freaks him out completely,” Pounder says. “Her leaving, her arriving; her comings and goings are always, ‘Oh, my God, she’s in the room.’ So it just sort of leaves one to believe that … Mrs. Frederic is some other kind of entity, but we don’t know.”

4) She hasn’t changed her look in 40 years. “She also has a remarkably ’60s look, so she seems to be stuck in a time warp of some kind,” Pounder says.

5) It’s unlikely we’ll learn more … at least for now “Any questions about Mrs. Frederic [are] off the table,” Pounder says about her relationship with the show’s writers. “It’s like a gag order until the script comes. So they have been keeping her [as] Madame Mystery, and it’s kind of fun for the actor. It’s kind of fun to not know any history about the woman until the script shows up and you can go, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ll be doing today.’”

6) Pounder has a theory. “I think she’s a hologram,” Pounder says. “That’s my theory. I think she’s a device from some higher place. … She has a lot of personality for not being real. … Maybe [she's] another entity that should be in the Warehouse that they’ve put to use. You never know.”

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The fall schedule on TV has several new shows that have black actors in featured roles.  A couple of old shows have added a couple.  Here are a few faces to look for this fall on Television, and I think we should do our best to support their shows lest they fall victim to the ratings axe.

Katerina Graham has already started her role on the CW show Vampire Diaries as Bonnie Bennet.

L.L. Cool J is starring this fall in the NCIS spinoff, NCIS Los Angeles.  The show follows the undercover unit of NCIS stationed in L.A. He will play Sam Hanna, an ex-Navy SEAL and expert on Middle Eastern culture.

Courney B. Vance and Gabrielle Union will be starring in ABC’s Flash Forward, a highly anticipated series from Brannon Braga (Star Trek: TNG, Threshold) and David S. Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins).  A mysterious global event causes everyone to simultaneously experience for 2 minutes and 17 seconds their lives 6 months in the future.

Ernie Hudson and Rick Worthy are joining the cast of Heroes.  Ernie Hudson joins the cast as a Baltimore detective tracking down one of our Heroes.  Rick Worthy will be playing Mat Parkman’s partner in the LAPD.

Morris Chestnut will be starring in the highly anticipated re-imagining of “V”.

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Source: Marvel.com

By Richard Rodrigues and Arune Singh

This October, there’s a new Sorcerer Supreme in town, and he’s unlike any you’ve ever seen before.

In the first part of a three-part feature, Marvel.com takes you behind the scenes of DOCTOR VOODOO: AVENGER OF THE SUPERNATURAL #1 with series writer Rick Remender to discuss his plans for this new ongoing series and get a look at the main players.

Up first, the man himself: Jericho Drumm, aka Doctor Voodoo!

DOCTOR VOODOO: AVENGER OF THE SUPERNATURAL #1 cover by Marko Djurdjevic

Marvel.com: What should readers know about Jericho Drumm when jumping into DOCTOR VOODOO?

Rick Remender: He’s a classic Marvel character: tragic past, position of power thrust upon him. He’d left Haiti to live in the [United States] where he went to medical school. His brother Daniel remained behind and took the role of Houngan Supreme, the Sorcerer Supreme of Voodoo. Daniel ran afoul some bad mambo jambos and was cursed; end result, Daniel died and Jericho had to pick up his mantle to save his home city and to make good on his promise to his brother. Currently Jericho lives in New Orleans where he runs a non-profit clinic and keeps the evil Loas at bay. Then one day-pow-he’s the Sorcerer Supreme and every major bad ass in the [Marvel Universe] is out to take him down.

Jericho Drumm, aka Doctor Voodoo, is stuck between two lives; that of a voodoo healer and psychologist serving the impoverished communities of New Orleans and that of the new Sorcerer Supreme, defender of the unknown.

As [Daimon Hellstrom] prophesized in NEW AVENGERS #54] there are supernatural forces, beings of malevolence and supreme arcane power that lurk in the shadows, conspiring to spread their festering darkness to our world. With premonitions as to the arrival of these terrible forces, the Eye of Agamotto has passed the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme onto the one man who has the unique gifts to stave off the shadows; a man who recognizes how to combat the coming darkness-as it was his birthplace.

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Here’s the new books for the week a little heavy on the trades.

Here’s the rest of the new books for the week

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This looks hilarious.

Source: SuperHeroHype

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