Luke Cage tries to get his baby back.

UPS advised us today that new comics have been delayed, due to adverse weather conditions. We expect to receive our shipment Thursday.

Speeding Bullet will be open today during our normal business hours, 10 am to 7 pm. Be safe on the roads, everyone!

Matt & Kyle kick off Comics Q&A, a new video series at NewsOK.com. To watch the video, click here.

“Who is Superwoman?” storyline begins.
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Obama gives Spidey a fist-pump. Matt is surpised by Prometheus. And a rare SPOILER WARNING segment on Final Crisis.

DC’s month of villainous one-shots continues this week with Faces of Evil: Prometheus, written by Sterling Gates.

But Sterling warns us his Prometheus story is a far cry from Supergirl.

“Faces of Evil: Prometheus is a small little revenge story with these big, insane, hyperviolent fights. They’re really some of the most over-the-top clashes I’ve ever written. Definitely not for your kids to read,” Sterling said. “We get pretty deeply into Prometheus’ past in the special, as well as look at where Prometheus has been since he fought the JLA all those years ago.”

A Solomon Grundy one-shot, released last week, kicked off Faces of Evil. Other one-shots will focus on Deathstroke and Kobra. In addition, DC comics this month will feature covers and stories focusing on villains.

IGN has a preview of Prometheus up now. Click here to see the first five pages!

“Prometheus isn’t your typical DC villain,” Sterling said. “He’s intense, and dark, and terrible. He finds himself incredibly funny, even though to us, he’s sadistic. Because of how dreadful a personality he is, I found him incredibly difficult to write. Too dark a guy for me to write all the time. Luckily, though, I’ve always got Supergirl to pull me up and out of the darkness. And the mystery of Superwoman begins next week!”

Pick up Prometheus. Art by Federico Dalbochio. Cover by Mauro Cascioli. Then, get ready for Supergirl #37, out next week!

What is in this box? You’ll have to come in to find out … But we can tell you they’re only 50 cents each!

Speeding Bullet is taking up the mantle to help you fight the recession and still go home with comics! Selected back issues in our discounted boxes are only 50 cents and $1 (for you highrollers).

Ok, ok. Here are some hints as to what are in our special boxes: Get the lowdown on the first series starring Spider-Woman, or find out the story behind Marc Silvestri’s Cyberforce, or discover just what WAS the Nth Man. These comics and many more are priced to go home with you!

The highly anticipated episode of Smallville guest-starring the Legion of Super-Heroes airs this week!

See Saturn Girl (pictured), Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy fight alongside Clark Kent! This episode was written by Geoff Johns. Watch at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 on The CW.

Former OU lineman and Speeding Bullet customer Chris Chester is one game away from the Super Bowl!

Chris helped the Baltimore Ravens make it to the AFC Championship Game last weekend! Yay, Chris!

If the Ravens beat the Steelers this weekend, they will play either the Cardinals or Eagles in the Super Bowl.

Kyle gets Skrulled out. Recorded Jan. 8 at OPUBCO Studios.

Hurray for the Baltimore Ravens, who defeated the Miami Dolphins on Sunday to advance in the NFL playoffs!

The Ravens are one of our favorite teams, since former OU lineman and Speeding Bullet customer Chris Chester joined the team. Chris wears #65, and his team will play the Titans on Saturday.

Matt namedrops … well, himself. Recorded Jan. 5 at OPUBCO Studios.

Matt’s list includes his pick of the best graphic-novel format comics released for the first time in 2008. These books are in stock at Speeding Bullet if you missed them last year!

1. Local
Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly’s tale follows young Megan McKeenan as she crisscrosses America. She even visits Bizzell Library and The Mont in Norman, Oklahoma!

2. Too Cool to Be Forgotten
Software engineer Andrew Wicks seeks the aid of a hypnotist to quit smoking. But rather than waking up smoke-free, he wakes up in 1985, as a high school freshman.

3. What It Is
Part autobiography, part creative workbook, Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” features dazzling artwork with elements of collage throughout.

4. Bottomless Belly Button
Dash Shaw writes and draws this huge graphic novel about the adult children of Maggie and David Looney, who have announced their divorce after 40 plus years of marriage.

5. Freddie and Me
Mike Dawson’s memoir shows how his life was influenced by Freddie Mercury of Queen. Dawson intertwines speculation about the band with his own coming-of-age.

6. Burma Chronicles
Guy Delisle and his wife go to Burma as part of Doctors Without Borders. As his wife battles the dictatorship’s bureaucracy to care for malaria victims, Delisle takes care of his young son and details day to day life in the oppressed nation.

7. Dugout
Writer Adam Beechen and artist Manny Bello are the creative team for this story of a down-on-his-luck baseball manager in 1959 who decides the only way to save his job is to break a hotshot pitcher out of jail. “Dugout” mixes the sports and caper genres with aplomb.

8. Love and Rockets: The Education of Hopey Glass
Jaime Hernandez has been spinning tales of Maggie and Hopey, punk rock girls from the barrio, since 1983. Now the women are in their 30s, but no less fascinating. Hopey’s trying to become a teacher’s assistant in this story. Meanwhile, Ray, who used to live with Maggie, lusts after Vivian and finds himself at the edges of a murder plot.

9. Omega The Unknown
Novelist Jonathan Lethem updates the oddball 1970s Marvel title for the modern era. The first chapter is based very closely on the original work by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes and Jim Mooney. “Omega,” drawn by former Oklahoma resident Farel Dalrymple, features a mute alien superhero and the earth teenager with whom he is strangely connected.

10. Aya of Yop City
Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s sequel to “Aya” features Aya helping Adjoua with her new baby. There’s a question of the baby’s paternity which has the town buzzing. Meanwhile, Bintou has a new romance with a smooth Parisian. Aya’s father has his own problems at work, which spill into his home life in a cliffhanger of an ending.

For more detailed reviews, and other comics news, visit Matt’s Nerdage Blog.

Two superhero films made Matt’s list of top movies for 2008. Other of the year’s top films featured washed-up wrestlers, 1970s politicians and an optimistic trash compactor.

1. “The Dark Knight” - Director Christopher Nolan made a crime epic disguised as a comic-book caper. While the Joker ostensibly is working for the city’s criminal powers, his real goal is chaos. Ultimately, Nolan’s Batman film asks viewers to consider when and why rules should be broken.

2. “Slumdog Millionaire” - Director Danny Boyle shows us the life of a young “slumdog” in Bombay, who becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

3. “The Wrestler” - Mickey Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a former top pro wrestler who still lives for the adulation of the crowd while hanging on in the dregs of the business as he approaches middle age.

4. “Frost/Nixon” - Director Ron Howard makes the cat-and-mouse game between interviewer David Frost (Michael Sheen) and the resigned President Nixon (Frank Langella) into compelling drama.

5. “Iron Man” - Robert Downey Jr. plays billionaire playboy Tony Stark, forced to invent a high-tech suit of armor to save his life in “Iron Man.”

6. “WALL-E” - The animated Pixar film features a robotic trash compactor on an abandoned Earth. “WALL-E” is a classic love story disguised as a science fiction tale, but it works as both.

7. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” - Brad Pitt stars as Benjamin Button in this epic film loosely adapted from an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. Benjamin is born old, then ages backwards.

8. “Milk” - Sean Penn stars as gay activist Harvey Milk in this 1970s biopic. Milk was the first openly gay man elected to office in California.

9. “Happy-Go-Lucky” - Sally Hawkins carries this film as the constantly happy Poppy. As the film begins, you can’t imagine making it through this movie without being irritated by her, but by the close you don’t want the movie to end.

10. “Gran Torino” - Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Kowalski, a cranky, somewhat racist widower, seething his way through his twilight years and forced to confront preconceived notions.

Matt is a member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, the state’s professional association of film critics. In addition to writing film reviews throughout the year, Matt votes on the best and worst movies of the year, as one of the 18 members of the OFCC.

For more detailed reviews, visit Matt’s Nerdage Blog.

Matt continues his tradition of year-end lists! Any of the following comics were great bets last year, and most are still going strong into 2009!

1. Action Comics
Superman visits the far-flung future of the Legion of Superheroes, where he is powerless, then returns home to face the menace of Brainiac invading Earth. As the year ends, Superman is faced with 100,000 Kryptonians who now want to make Earth their home.

2. Criminal
Insomniac cartoonist Jacob gets in over his head as a forger comes back to haunt him.

3. Captain America
“Bucky” Barnes now wears the garb of Captain America. This reluctant hero fights like the original Cap, but he’s still learning to inspire people.

4. The comics of Kevin Huizenga
Check out Ganges #2, Or Else #5, and Fight or Run.

5. All-Star Superman
The 12-issue run will surely be an enduring classic for the Man of Steel.

6. Echo
Photographer Julie Martin sees a strange explosion in the desert sky, which covers her in a mysterious metal.

7. Nova
Richard Ryder, the last of the intergalactic police force known as the Nova Corps, helped fight off the Secret Invasion that ran throughout the Marvel titles.

8. RASL
Jeff Smith transitions from his all-ages fantasy epic Bone to RASL, a mature readers title with an interdimensional thief.

9. Northlanders
The return of the prodigal son is a theme of this must-read Vertigo book.

10. Supergirl
In just three issues, the new creative team of Sterling Gates and artist Jamal Igle have transformed the Girl of Steel.

To see more detailed reviews, visit Matt’s Nerdage Blog.