When season 4 of Eureka starts up in a month, I’m thinking of doing some episodic reviews. If some of you out there aren’t watching this show (for some inconceivable reason), this is a general overview as well as my endorsement.

Eureka (also known in some countries as A Town Called Eureka) is a science fiction show set in the titular small town in Oregon. Eureka is settled out in the woods, and is easily one of those towns you simply pass by on a road trip. Thing is, Eureka is not an ordinary town. It is, in fact, filled to the brim with geniuses.

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Word has it that John Barrowman and sister Carole Barrowman are teaming up with artist Tommy Lee Edwards on Titan Publishing’s upcoming Torchwood comic book. The trio will work on a story titled “The Selkie” for the first part of issue #1. The rest of the first issue, and the next four issues, will be a story titled “Broken” by Gary Russell with art by Adrian Salmon.

Torchwood was originally a television series that spun-off from Doctor Who. The series follows Captain Jack Harkness, former companion of The Doctor, and his team of investigators who defend the Earth from the dangers that emerge through a space/time rift under the city of Cardiff, Wales. The first two seasons of Torchwood and the miniseries event Torchwood: Children of Earth are available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Torchwood: The Official Comic is expected to hit shelves on August 10, 2010.

Writer: Simon Spurrier
Pencillers: Paul Davidson & Francis Portela
Publisher: Marvel

About 20 issues ago in Uncanny X-Men, Beast and Archangel assembled a team of mad scientists to pursue solutions to the dwindling mutant population. Beast named this team the X-Club, after a real life social club comprised of scientists during the 19th century. The team currently consists of James Bradley aka Dr. Nemesis, co-creator of the original Human Torch android and hunter of Super-Nazis; Madison Jeffries aka Box, former member of Alpha Flight with the power to manipulate (and possibly speak to) machinery; Dr. Kavita Rao, creator of the mutant cure, now looking to restart a race she once tried to end.

This one-shot takes place between the cliffhanger ending of New Mutants #13 and the opening explosion in X-Men Legacy #236. How do you fit an entire issue between a countdown from 4 seconds and running to safety? You’d be surprised.

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Writer: Ed Brubaker
Penciler: Mike Deodato
Publisher: Marvel

Norman Osborn is out of power, Steve Rogers is back from the dead, the Avengers are reforming, and a new Heroic Age is upon us. Secret Avengers is an all new Avengers title that takes us from the world of celebrity superheroes and bright adventures in the daylight to the dark and deceptive world of espionage. And it does so without going overboard on the “dark” part, for once.

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Previously on Doctor Who…

Having survived a dangerous adventure together, Amy reveals to the Doctor that she’s getting married in the morning. She then tries to have sex with the Doctor, who rejects her advances because she’s getting married in the morning. The Doctor then resolves to sort out this whole mess.

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Hey, remember when I very briefly complained about the lack of Looney Tunes on TV? Well, I can shut up now. According to The New York Times, Warner Bros. is getting off their duffs and bringing the Looney Tunes back in full force.

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The Looney Tunes Show will star Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as roommates in a half-hour TV series. Looney Tunes mainstays such as Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety Bird will be their neighbors. Warner is promising these characters as their regular, classic, Merry Melodies selves. None of that crap like Loonatics Unleashed, folks. It’s Bugs and Daffy as we’ve always known them, except sharing a house instead of burrowing toward Pismo Beach together.

The show starts this Fall on Cartoon Network, and they’ve already commissioned 26 episodes.

In other news, Warner Bros. is also creating a series of short cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. No “roommate” twist. It’s the Coyote chasing the Roadrunner across the desert. There is one thing, though: It’ll be CG-animated.

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The shorts will play in movie theatres, attached to several upcoming kids films such as Yogi Bear, the new Cats & Dogs movie, and Legend of the Guardians. They’ll also be in 3D, like everything else these days.

Previously on Doctor Who…

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Previously on Doctor Who…

That’s right, folks. It’s the return of River Song.

Here’s a link to Cracked.com instead. It’s okay, I won’t blame you.

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In 2008, Marvel Studios released a film adaptation of Iron Man. It did amazingly well at the box office, and was well received by critics. This year, the follow up Iron Man 2 has hit theatres. Does it measure up to the quality set by the first movie?

Lock up the liquor cabinet and hide the women. Iron Man is back!

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Previously on Doctor Who, the Doctor killed all of the Daleks at the sacrifice of his own people.

Then the last surviving Dalek killed itself.

Then more Daleks came, and Rose wiped them all from existence.

Then some more popped up from the void between the universes, but the Doctor and Rose shoved them back into the void.

Then a handful wound up in 1930’s New York, but they killed themselves.

Then one survivor defied the laws of time travel and brought back the creator of the Daleks, who created a new Dalek race that was eventually wiped out by the Doctor’s half-human clone.

And thus the Daleks were dead FOREVER, NEVER TO RETURN!!

Damn it to hell

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