"Here he comes. Here comes, Speed Racer"

What kind of super clean and non-suggestive lyric is that? They're the words from the opening of the classic Speed Racer cartoon is what.

Too pip ol' chaps and young 'uns, there's a new Speed Racer movie coming up from The Wachowskis later in the whenever the chalk dust falls. So what better way to build the chassis (wow, what meekness) than by having other new adventures with a touch of the old spice.

"Mach Go Go Go!" Speed Racer and all of the characters you know and love -- from Trixie to Chim-Chim and beyond -- is back in all-new adventures!

Kicking off a new era of Speed, writer Arie Kaplan (Mad Magazine) and artist Robby Musso (The Transformers) expand the mythos in exciting, new (and old) ways in a story that spans generations of Racers!

Artist Alex Garner (Dominatrix) provides a special painted cover, and fellow Transformers artist extraordinaire E.J. Su offers a variant.

Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer from IDW Publishing

Other comics to eyeball this week

Calendars don't matter in the world of comics. Not with late comics on schedules. And what better showing of this than Halloween Nightdance. Right there in the title, like the Treehouse of Horror only more gore. Stefan Hutchinson and Tim Seeley slashing the Valentine's night away. See, doesn't even match.

Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander give feet to the Abe not that fond of wearing stovepipe hats in Abe Sapien: The Drowning. Sounds like the experience of being on a first mission. Or having the interviewer actually turn up on time to the interview. The nerve.

Alan Davis brings it all back to you (guess the lyric hint) with ClanDestine at the House of Ideas. And what brings out the freak balls and odd ones? A secret. No closet or bones, just plain and simple secret. And them's the bigguns. Awwwww, freak out!

As scientific research into the best way to fry whale blubber continues apace by Japan and Norway, The Whale gets a do over in Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick. Roy Thomas and Pascal Alixe commandeering the Pequod of Herman Melville's master tome.

With a title like Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness it's hard to not think of many other fantasy related titles which sound out and on and on. Robin Gillespie, Kinley Macgregor and Tommy Ohtsuka twist an ankle on the old Arthurian times. Why not call them Galahadian?

Spot the cross reference to another pre-90s thing coming back in the opener?

 

When walking through a pitch dark cave, it'd be a good idea to be in there with a light of some sort. And, when there is a mine to be excavated, a little birdy for the ride. Most often a canary. If it's a gonna, there's gas about.

And the last thing you need is to step into a gassy area with a torch that doesn't need batteries.

Witches all across the world seek out Hellboy, but this time, they're not just after revenge.

The long-awaited follow-up to 2005's The Island, the six-issue miniseries Darkness Calls sees Mike Mignola pushing his greatest creation, Hellboy, toward the next major turning point in his life, with haunting art by Duncan Fegredo (Enigma, Ultimate Adventures).

Hellboy: Darkness Calls #1 (of 6) from Dark Horse Comics

Milk and cookies theatre as the house gets classy with Marvel Illustrated: Last of the Mohicans. Adapting James Fenimore Cooper's novel, Roy Thomas, Steven Kurth and Denis Medri disappears between the encroaching civilization of one world dominating and wiping out another.

While back in black, right here, in the Sensational Spider-Man Annual it's with Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca taking a back track. Found a zit on the inside of the finger tip. Ow, does it ever hurt.

Pretty much child's play as Chucky goes a hacking and a slashing courtesy of being around Brian Pulido and Josh Medors. Andy Barclay, first to encounter the maniac doll, better run for his entrails.

35 is another age and Michael Avon Oeming and Ron Adrian squeeze it up some in Giant Size Red Sonja. Old mix in with the colours of the new and it's a massive load of Sonja to behold.

Evil, evil, evil, oh, but that's just in degrees of cheese fellow line walkers. Watch on as Christopher E. Long and Chee take in a few kids in Ward of the State only to churn them out as killing machines later on by their foster mother. Way to go The System!

The warrior princess who looks and talks like a Kiwi took a dirt nap at the end of the show. Dark Xena by John Layman and Noah Salonga bring up the fact that Gabrielle better watch out how she puts in her request to bring back Xena. Like asking for extra time off from a place you've never worked?

The Winchesters get all pen and inked in Supernatural: Origins with Peter Johnson, Matthew Dow Smith, Geoff Johns and Phil Hester kicking some hide on the folklore and urban legend side. Before the show, before the hunt, and shortly after the flames of mother Mary on the ceiling.

 

Conventional door handles suggest that promotion of other people's names would mean the clothes you're wearing, which bear the big logos, would be cheap. And that anything boutique, really boutique, like your own moniker, would be more expensive.

Not so, as it's pretty much a premium to wear a logo it seems. And finding people to walk around with your name, not so easy to find.

Unless they think you're dead.

Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers--newly legion--have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything's fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains...

Buffy creator Joss Whedon brings Buffy back to Dark Horse in this direct follow-up to season seven of the smash-hit TV series.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics

Score one for the inability to keep to a schedule as the woman with the armour bracelets switches into a totally different gear in Wonder Woman #5. Will Pfeifer and Jean Diaz cover the gaping hole left by The OC bloke, Heinberg, who brought Wonder Woman back in line with the rest of the big hitters, late. After this, it's a new creative team again.

Get a little vague as Chuck Dixon and Ryan Benjamin tackle the heads of Grifter and Midnighter. Six blocks to knock down and nary a world of thought for that which drives them so. Much in the don't ask, don't show variety it appears. Shame.

Javier Grillo-Marauch and Carlos Rafael take it back to the BSG where Starbuck wasn't an XX in Classic Battlestar Galactica; Cylon Apocalypse. Damn BattlestarGalactica.com, you manage to choke out Opera. Swamp thing takes over the body of a Cylon and it's up to Adama and Starbuck to assess the situation. Classic, but keep an eye on the covers, it says nothing otherwise. Hard to call.

Run for the hills, Abe Sapien! It's the past come round like a book flying with wings tipped in gold leaf and a world of jungle fever. Or is it? B.P.R.D: Garden of Souls from Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Guy Davis on art in a five petal leaf of history as Langdon Caul.

Captain America and Iron Man have fought the fight they needed to fight and here is the closer to the whole shebang. Civil War: The Confession from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev with a hint of all round new style art from the man, it's a tale between two souls and the end of it all.

 

As the hangovers begin preparations in earnest, beaches will soon find themselves flooded with people celebrating the Christmas and New Year breaks. Winter is gone, summer is here.

And so is the fear.

The bright unseen lights of the cancerous UV rays searing and scorching the skin to a fine crispy layer of flakes of the unprotected? The fact that it will invariably end and the school or work must be returned to following the days of a relaxed state? Or perhaps it holds court in the television for those stuck at home and without a fresh home theatre library?

No, the fear here is the beer of the gut. Flab that has found its way onto that arm or waist on the back of that extra course, that second helping, all through those colder months of the year indoors. With the temperature set to rocket up the charts, the sweaters and heavy clothing that has been kind to the form will have to go.

Just in time for the bearing of chests and flexing of muscle, Hellboy is here to lend a helping right hand of doom. Showing techniques and exercises from this latest fitness DVD, the demon from hell will whip you into shape ready for the viewing public. Ranging from weight training to aerobics workouts the feature will have you looking good as you strut your stuff and banish that shame like the Nazi regime.

Summer time, get pumping.

 

 

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