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Pilot: The Guild

If you like Felicia Day, or just about anything Joss Whedon touches, then chances are you’re already a fan of “The Guild.” With Felicia Day writing the new story, the popular web series graced comic books last week and tells of the colorful guild’s origin.

Welcome to another installment of Pilot! As comic book readers ourselves, we at Impulse know how important it is to get a quality bang for money spent on a single issue. Comic prices add up, after all! So every so often we’ll take an in-depth look at a new title or mini-series. We’ll give you the heads up on whether it’s is worth getting into or passing up. If it’s good, then you’ll know. If it’s not so good … well, we read it so you don’t have to.

Internet sensation Felicia Day invented The Guild, a web series that thousands of fans popularize, the mass-market Xbox Live (Microsoft) continuously distributes, and company Sprint sponsors. The Youtube hit has grown out of its purely loyal PayPal donation shell and flourished into a fan favorite that has claimed numerous awards, including the SXSW, Youtube, and Yahoo Awards Series Awards. Day’s home project has even garnered thrice the praise from the internet famous Streamy Awards. Now The Guild, which the commonly recognized Joss Whedon television actress engineered for her fellow MMORPG (massive multi-player online role-playing game) gamers, charms its way into Dark Horse’s comic book realm.

Read the rest at Impulse Creations.

Tags: Dark Horse, Felicia Day, Jim Rugg, The Guild
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Pull-O-Rama: March ’10

Watch the Slayer kick butt in Buffy #33, take a bit out of crime with Chew #9, and try not to get a paper cut with Detective Comics #862—this month’s Pull-O-Rama spotlight at the Impulse Creations forums.

“All minor complaints aside, this issue’s impact on the series justifies any temporarily rocky footing and bursts with that Whedon ’verse charm that has captivated audiences since the show reached fruition.” - Buffy #33

“Layman rocks yet another five-star issue, and Rob Guillory sprinkles all the right shades of disgusting culinary secrets and criminal mischief you could desire.” - Chew #9

“The whole comic screams of viciousness, and you can practically feel the blood and knives slide under your fingertips as you turn the pages.” - Detective Comics #862

You can read the reviews here.

Tags: Buffy, Chew, Detective Comics
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Zenescope Resurrects Charmed

Hooray for ’90s TV shows! Who doesn’t love ‘em? I’m certainly head over heels for those flashy, over-the-top, or just plain weird opening credits. But the 1990s, lingering a full decade behind us now, consequently tallies quite a laundry list of retired shows—including Charmed, one of my favorite late ’90s spots.

While Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for instance, continues to soak up all those rays of undying fan love, Charmed has now joined the party thanks to Zenescope Entertainment.  Learn more about the upcoming series at OneMetal.com.

Constance M. Burge’s Charmed (1998-2006) bubbled up from Spelling Entertainment and ensnared viewers with three gorgeous good witches. The original sisters—Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano)—later discovered an unknowing fourth, Paige (Rose McGowan), but despite the trio, the North American television series captured audiences with fashionable witchcraft, pulled them in with romantic ardor, and riveted them with murderous demons and dusty spell books. The premiere episode itself garnered 7.7 million viewers, shattering previous Warner Brothers Network records for most successful debut, and the show eventually nabbed the honor for the longest running hour-long show featuring all female leads.

Tags: Charmed, Constance M. Burge, Dave Hoover, Paul Ruditis, Raven Gregory, Zenescope Entertainment
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VIZ Launches a Bustling Anime Hub

Put on your favorite weird anime face, grab a friend, and pop a squat before VIZ Media’s new VIZAnime.com—the latest in wretched hives of inappropriate prep school scum and sweat-drop villainy. Before you scamper away and leave a huge, dramatic dust cloud in your wake, remember that this anime goodness will happily hog your internet without costing you a cent.

Feast your eyes on over 400 episodes of several popular confirmed shows, which have snuggled into their new home: Bleach, Buso Renkin (new), Death Note (complete series), Hikaru No Go (new), Honey and Clover, Inuyasha (complete series) and Inuyasha: The Final Act, Nana, Naruto (complete series), Naruto Shippuden, and The Prince of Tennis (new). With new episodes set to appear fresh each week, and additional content and features scheduled, VIZ is clearly trying to bump furry-eared heads with fellow stream-ready communities such as Hulu.

Additionally, users can “follow” shows and click to be notified about upcoming episodes, rate videos, share their own profile page, and even message other fans.

“We’re committed to developing VIZ Anime as a premiere online destination, and hope to offer a real community for VIZ Media fans to interact with each other and share their love of anime,” announced Ken Sasaki, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VIZ Media. “We will also utilize the site as a means of two-way communication to better understand what our fans enjoy most and want, and how they engage with anime and manga online. With a lot of content to select from, VIZ Anime will become a favorite site to visit again and again!”

Once you contract Shin Chan, it might do just that, Ken.

Will you pour hours of your time into VIZAnime?

Tags: Anime, Ken Sasaki, Viz Media, VIZAnime
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Showcase: Starman Omnibus, Do Androids Dream, and I Kill Giants

More graphic novel love has exploded on Impulse Creations—and trust me, it’s not as violent as it sounds. In this round I discuss Starman Omnibus Vol. 2, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Vol. 1, and I Kill Giants Vol. 1. Hop over and read the reviews now.

“James Robinson flicks a cosmic rod and revives the dusty Starman legacy, brushing up the dents and polishing over the comic’s outdated visage with modernistic flair.” - Starman Omnibus Vol. 2

“Dick’s novel and thus, this comic, serves a heavy dose of sci-fi lingo and progressive notions thick with literary speak—a requisite that the light of mind should consider before taking the plunge into Dick’s world.” - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Vol. 1

“Plenty of snuggly kids’ stories hit shelves. Nearly all of them douse their pages with make believe, as they should, but few truly shower them with magic.” - I Kill Giants Vol. 1

Tags: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I Kill Giants, Philip K Dick, Starman
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