Each week, Marvel is kind enough to provide us with a pile of comics for early preview and review. Every week we bring you previews of a few select comics from what Marvel sends us. Enjoy this weeks Marvel previews!

Daredevil #112 The Hand is back in New York City with Lady Bullseye at their helm! They are looking for something, and while what that is has yet to be revealed, you can be sure that it is not going to be good for ol’ DD. Daredevil continues to be an awesome read and you can check out my review of this latest ish on Monday!

New Avengers #46 The Hood and his gang need to gain an advantage on the Skrulls, and they need to do it immediately. In order to do so Hood will have to find out the true nature of his powers in this Secret Invasion tie-in! Watch for a review of this revealing issue from Clang! Boom! Steam! in the coming days!

Ultimate Spider-Man #127 This is it! Carnage vs. Venom! The exciting conclusion to the War of the Symbiotes! Peter must help find Venom or risk his secret identity being revealed! Oh, and did I mention an important character from Peter’s past shows up? Watch for a review from Human Junk!

And  that’s it for this weeks Marvel previews! You can pick up all of these titles plus a ton more on Wednesday, October 22! Be sure to check out our comic listings to see what’s on shelves!

Entertainment Weekly was bad-ass enough to send us an advance look at their Star Trek cover…

From the Press Release:

After 10 often dismal movies, Star Trek had turned into a pop culture punchline. Even people who’d built their entire careers around Trek could see the writing on the wall. “Star Trek,” says Leonard Nimoy, “had run its course.” But director J.J. Abrams believes he can make the franchise cool again. This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly has the inside scoop on Abrams’ surprising, idealistic odyssey, which could become next summer’s multiplex juggernaut.

“I don’t think people even understand what Star Trek means anymore,” says Abrams, who saw the first Star Trek film in 1979 with his father at a theater on the Paramount lot. But he feels no warm-fuzzy nostalgia about it. In fact, Abrams can sum up his regard for Trek in two words: Galaxy Quest, the 1999 hit starring Tim Allen that satirized Trek with painful precision. “It’s so ridiculous, so accurate, so sophisticated, it spoils the Star Trek universe,” he says. Plus, at heart, Abrams is still more of a Star Wars guy. “All my smart friends liked Star Trek,” he says. “I preferred a more visceral experience.” Which is exactly why he accepted Paramount’s offer in 2005 to develop a new Trek flick; creative ly, he was engaged by the possibility of a Star Trek movie “that grabbed me the way Star Wars did.”

Abrams says he was also drawn to the project because he believed in—and wanted to evangelize—Trek’s unabashed ideal ism. “I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now,” says Abrams. That ethos may seem cornball to an America darkened by a decade’s worth of catastrophe, but after an election season that has seen both presidential nomi nees run on “hope” and “change,” Star Trek just may find itself on the leading wave of a zeitgeist shift—away from bleak, brood ing blockbusters and toward the light. “In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,” Abrams says. “It was important to me that optimism be cool again.”

Is the world ready again for Trek’s optimistic vision of the future? Some involved with the film suspect the presidential election may have a dramatic effect on how Star Trek will be perceived. “This is a franchise that offers hope for unity—and so does Barack Obama,” says Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock. “When this movie comes out, and Obama is presi dent, hopefully there will be some parallels.” Perhaps, but the elder Spock knows that moments of unity can be fleeting. “My only regret is that the movie can’t come out sooner,” Nimoy says. “I think the world could use it. Don’t you?”

While Nimoy will be putting on his ears to play a wizened Spock in the new Star Trek, don’t expect a cameo by William Shatner as Captain Kirk. Last month, the 77-year-old actor posted a video on YouTube, complaining about being left behind, and chastising Abrams, even though Shatner’s Kirk died in Star Trek Generations (1994). “I brought him back to life in one of my books, very easily,” Shatner tells Abrams in the video. “I’m just sorry that I’m not in your wonderful movie.”

Abrams has seen the video, of course. “I don’t know how my life has become a thing where William Shatner talks to me through YouTube,” Abrams tells EW. “I was such a huge fan of his, but we wrote a scene for him in the movie and it didn’t feel right. And he said to us—he said publicly—that doing a cameo didn’t interest him. Which I totally appreciate. But we did try.” EW tried to reach Shatner, but he declined to be interviewed. Through a spokesperson he said, “I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to be involved in the Star Trek universe at this point.”

UPDATE: Entertainment weekly sent me a link to their full photo gallery.  Click here to check it out.

The crew looks great.  Though all I see is Sylar now when I look at Spock.

Each week, Marvel is kind enough to provide us with a pile of comics for early preview and review. Every Friday we bring you previews of a few select comics from what Marvel sends us. Enjoy this weeks Marvel previews!

Astonishing X-Men #27 The X-Men are back on track with a new look, a new locale, and a new resolve as a team. But the next challenge that faces them will shake each member to the core! This title has been great! Watch for a review from me on Monday!

Guardians of the Galaxy #6 The Guardians are trying their damndest to figure out the skrull infiltration amongst their ranks, but after the dust settles will the team stay intact? This is an underrated title that is certainly worth checking out… I mean, come on, there’s a bad-ass, gun-toting space raccoon!

Mighty Avengers #19 Mighty Avengers and Secret Invasion marches on! Of course, so much of this can be traced back to the Kree/Skrull war and in this issue the lives of Captain Mar-Vell and Marvel Boy will greatly affect the events of Invasion and shape the future of the Mighty Avengers!

Moon Knight #23 Osborn and the Thunderbolts have been instructed to bring in Moon Knight and have thus far come up empty handed. But now, does Osborn have a full proof plan? Her certainly has the muscle and the numbers, but what he doesn’t know? Moon Knight is not alone… Swank and I are fans of Moon Knight, so here’s to hoping this issue is better than the last one.

Ultimate Origins #5 This is it folks. The Watchers finally speak! And you won’t want to miss what they have to say about the future of the Ultimate Universe! This has been a great series I think, but you can see what Clang! Boom! Steam! has to say about it in his review in a few days!

That’s it for this week bots! You can pick up all of these titles plus a lot more on Wednesday, Oct. 15!

Looks like we have more MARVEL animated series’ coming to us over the next few years! Here’s the official press release:

BSR’s resident Ghostbusters nerd (yours truly) received an e-mail from ZOMBIEcarrol about IDW’s Ghostbusters: The Other Side. Newsarama has a sneak preview of the first 5 pages. Go check it out!

Egon Spengler! Ray Stantz! Winston Zeddemore! Peter Venkman! The original Ghostbusters return in an all-new, four-part Ghostbusters story from IDW! Writer Keith Champagne (Green Lantern Corp, The Flash) is joined by artist Tom Nguyen in this new Ghostbusters saga. When the Ghostbusters capture a group of ghostly crooks, they unknowingly run afoul of a gang comprised of the spirits of some of America’s most legendary gangsters. Dead or alive, the mafia knows exactly how to deal with a problem like the Ghostbusters: rub ‘em out!

These are some new game play photos of the upcoming Resident Evil 5, which I have to say looks really good.

*Click Photos to enlarge.

Here are some of the photos of today’s new expansion to Mega Man 9. The Proto Man pack.

And Finally the Cover art for Street Fighter 4!!!!!!!!

Street Fighter IV, I don’t want to just play it, I want to, you know……*wink wink!-Slugtron

Each week, Marvel is kind enough to provide us with a pile of comics for early preview and review. Every week we bring you previews of a few select comics from what Marvel sends us. Enjoy this weeks Marvel previews!

Dead Pool #3 Dead Pool reveals his insane plan as the Skrulls prepare to release the latest wave of Super Skrulls! Will it actually work? Don’t miss this latest installment of this robot’s favorite new series!

Ender’s Game #1 The Ender’s Game series is my favorite series of books of all time. However, I am not the most thrilled about it coming the comic format I am going to give it a fair chance. Check it out as Ender starts his journey through battle school!

Invincible Iron Man #6 Has Tony Stark finally met his match in Ezekial Stane? How will he handle the hordes of suicide bombers? The conclusion of this ark promises to devastate Stark’s world!

The Stand: Captain Trips #2 The critically acclaimed new series from Stephen King roles on this month! As the super-flu rages across America the government takes interest in the only person who seems to be immune to it, and they will find out why whether he likes it or not!

That’s it for this week! Enjoy!

No, unfortunately I did not get to play a demo of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the latest Spidey game to hit the market. SHH! however did have a demo shown to them and they have written up a pretty extensive and detailed review/preview of the game (pretty much spoiler-free) that you can check out here. Here’s a small excerpt:

Professional gamers guided us through an Xbox demo of the new game and we were stunned at the level of action and detail that’s been rendered in “Web of Shadows.” Not only does Spidey move through the game with all the speed, strength and agility as the real deal certainly would, it also cleverly uses his Spider-sense to ID and target threats and enemies, and gives him startling and dynamic levels of wall-crawling and web-slinging skills in an enormous playing field that makes the player feel like they’re smack in the middle of the New York cityscape where the action can literally go anywhere. It’s as if the player has been dropped in the middle of the most enormous action scene any of Sam Raimi’s movies could come up with. And throughout the relentless battles, Spider-Man retains that classic Peter Parker sense of humor, spouting a running series of quips and one-liners conceived by comic book writer Brian Reed.

Few game announcements have given this robot a preemptive robo-boner by only trailers, screen shots, and game descriptions, but next to Ghostbusters, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows has done just that. This may be the Spider-Man game we have all been waiting for and what Spider-Man 3 probably should have been; or it could be a massive disappointment.

Pass judgement when the game drops on October 21!

Marvel was nice enough to drop this kick ass preview into our inbox:

The X-Men have found a new home in the sunny city of San Francisco, but that doesn’t mean everything’s fine for Wolverine!  The past catches up with everyone’s favorite Canadian Canucklehead once again in Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #1 (of 4), from acclaimed writer Jason Aaron (Wolverine, Ghost Rider) along with rising-star artist Stephen Segovia (Wolverine: Origins), as a bounty is put out on Wolverine’s head! Logan’s ex now leads the Triads, gathering four mystical warriors with the power to kill Wolverine—guess he should’ve stayed in New York! The snikt is about to hit the fan!

The feel good comic book preview of the year! –Slugtron