Adam WarRock’s ComicsAlliance Rap-Up: January 29 – February 11 [Music]

Uh oh, ComicsAlliance gave me the keys to the blogmobile, so here I am writing my first ever post.

Hi, it's Adam WarRock, former co-host of War Rocket Ajax and the Internet's foremost comic book rapper, back with another ComicsAlliance Rap-Up. This was the first week of the new year with some fairly juicy news items, what with movie trailers, heavy issues in comics, and a certain famous, heralded work that is all of a sudden in the news... again. So let's get right to it.

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Adam WarRock ComicsAlliance Rap-Up 2-11-12 (MP3 | Youtube)

Beat by Mikal kHill

Lyrics:

"Who watches the watchmen, before they were watched

Back when Jon Osterman was still fixing clocks

Back when Ed Blake was still laughing

Sally Jupiter fought

And Veidt still had half an hour to talk

B/c either The Watchmen's an untouchable work

Or DC's just a corporation same as all else

And either you let the characters live and die in the past

Or you work to put some new stories back on the shelf

So we stand, Before the Watchmen, some say a dirty deal

Or an inevitability of life in of itself,

B/c Spider-Man was rebooted, and the trailer was released

And it looks pretty amazing if I say so myself.

Big ups the G-men winning the superbowl

Sorry to Tom Brady or that pass dropped by Wes Welk

But I still believe in Heroes so we saw the Avengers

Fully assembled in the city, now the summer's looking pretty

How far comics have come, mainstream used to laugh

when they called them graphic novels, or trade paperbacks,

Now we run the summer movie slate, and publishers survive

Cuz Image just celebrated 20 years, in fact..

And from the past, see the rise of the Phoenix again

Man I remember as a kid, I cried when I read that

Cuz who says comics can't tackle the bigger things

Go ask Joss Whedon, when you're seeing just where buffy is at

And Max Landis drunkenly sees Knightfall

How Superman died and came back, and make some wise cracks

And it's funny, but it's comics, everybody, tell me what you expect?

we thought a giant squid monster was all that?

So who watches the Watchmen, I'll watch them even if

Some new stories will drift down the pike nowadays

But I can still read the stories that I held so dear..

With the firm strong belief that no one can take them away

it's the rap up..."