Weekly Pull List 4/29/2015

All the comics available this week can be found on Comixology, and any comics news is on Comic Book Resources.

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Invincible #119

DC
Batman #40

Marvel
Daredevil #15
Fantastic Four #645
Inhuman #14
Moon Knight #14
New Avengers: Ultron Forever #1
Nova #30
Princess Leia #3
Silk #3
Silver Surfer #11
Spider-Man and the X-Men #6
Superior Iron Man #8
Wolverines #16
X-Men #26

Busch Dominates in Richmond

Originally written for CLNS Radio.

Kurt Busch picked up his first victory of the season in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 from Richmond International Raceway.  
 

Photo courtesy Daniel Shirey/Getty Images

Busch dominated the race, leading 291 of 400 laps.  Busch said this win was what his team was working towards all season.

“It’s a total team effort, and the way that everything came together, it just seemed like we were building…towards a great finish like this,” Busch said.  

Busch clinched a spot in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup with his victory.  Busch missed the first three races of the season while serving a suspension for a domestic violence incident.  He said it was an incredible feeling to be in victory lane after a rough start to the season.

“I have this opportunity because of [co-owner] Gene Haas,” Busch said.  “Everyone that’s a part of our family at Stewart-Haas, it’s an unbelievable feeling when you pull deep from within and to go through troubles.”

“Your personal life doesn’t need to affect your business life, and I’m here in victory lane and it feels great to do it in Richmond.”

Busch’s teammate Kevin Harvick finished second, and said he might have been able to win the race if it wasn’t for a bad set of tires.

“What we really needed was all the tires to be the same,” Harvick said.  “We put that one set of tires on and…it just got us way behind.”

“Just really happy for everyone at Stewart-Haas and Kurt and everybody on the 41.”

Unofficial results:

1. Kurt Busch

2. Kevin Harvick

3. Jimmie Johnson

4. Jamie McMurray

5. Joey Logano

6. Kasey Kahne

7. Matt Kenseth

8. Jeff Gordon

9. Clint Bowyer

10. Martin Truex Jr.

11. Ryan Newman

12. Kyle Larson

13. AJ Allmendinger

14. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

15. Paul Menard

16. Chase Elliott

17. Brad Keselowski

18. Justin Allgaier

19. Carl Edwards

20. Aric Almirola

21. Greg Biffle

22. Denny Hamlin

23. David Ragan

24. Trevor Bayne

25. Danica Patrick

26. Landon Cassill

27. Austin Dillon

28. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

29. Brett Moffitt

30. Casey Mears

31. David Gilliland

32. Alex Bowman

33. Michael Annett

34. Reed Sorenson

35. Sam Hornish Jr.

36. Cole Whitt

37. Matt DiBenedetto

38. Jeb Burton

39. Alex Kennedy

40. Jeff Green

41. Tony Stewart

42. Josh Wise

43. Joey Gase

Photo courtesy Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

Weekly Pull List: 4/22/2015

All the comics available this week can be found on Comixology, and any comics news is on Comic Book Resources.

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Chew #48

Marvel
All-New X-Men #40
Amazing Spider-Man #17.1
Amazing X-Men #19
The Black Vortex Omega #1
Guardians of the Galaxy #26
Hulk #15
Inhuman Special #1
Star Wars #4
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #4
Wolverines #15

Kenseth Wins Rain-Soaked Food City 500

Originally written for CLNS Radio.

  

Matt Kenseth won a rain-delayed Food City 500 on Sunday from the Bristol Motor Speedway.

Kenseth picked up his first victory of the season, ending a 51-race winless drought.  

Photo courtesy Sarah Glenn/Getty Images

“Last year was tough, and not winning again this year so far has been tough,” Kenseth said.  “It means a lot, I’ve got a great race team.”

Kenseth not only outlasted his competition, but also had to contend with Mother Nature throughout the day.  The race took over nine hours to complete, with a red flag on lap 22 halting the race for nearly four hours.

After a caution on lap 493 collected some of the race’s stronger cars, the rain returned to place the race under an extended caution period.  NASCAR eventually red-flagged the event for a few minutes while the track dried, and that set up a wild green-white-checkered finish.

Jeff Gordon was one of three drivers under that extended caution who were in danger of running out of gas.  Austin Dillon ran out of gas under the caution, but Kenseth and Gordon were able to save enough to get to the finish.

“That was just chaos,” Gordon said.  “I certainly didn’t like NASCAR running us around…under caution for so long, I thought were going to run out of gas.  I hate it for the 3 [of Dillon], but happy for Matt.  I think he deserved it…it would have been a shame if he had run out of gas.”

Unofficial results:

1. Matt Kenseth

2. Jimmie Johnson

3. Jeff Gordon

4. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

5. Ryan Newman

6. Tony Stewart

7. Kyle Larson

8. Justin Allgaier

9. Danica Patrick

10. Austin Dillon

11. Paul Menard

12. Clint Bowyer

13. Aric Almirola

14. Jamie McMurray

15. Kurt Busch

16. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

17. Brett Moffitt

18. David Gilliland

19. Sam Hornish Jr.

20. Alex Bowman

21. Matt DiBenedetto

22. Michael McDowell

23. Michael Annett

24. Carl Edwards

25. Chris Buescher

26. Denny Hamlin

27. Cole Whitt

28. Trevor Bayne

29. Martin Truex Jr.

30. Greg Biffle

31. Mike Bliss

32. J.J. Yeley

33. Alex Kennedy

34. AJ Allmendinger

35. Brad Keselowski

36. Casey Mears

37. Kasey Kahne

38. Kevin Harvick

39. Josh Wise

40. Joey Logano

41. David Ragan

42. Jeb Burton

43. Landon Cassill

Photo courtesy Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images

Weekly Pull List: 4/15/2015

All the comics available this week can be found on Comixology, and any breaking comics news is on Comic Book Resources.

Titan
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #9
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #11
Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #7

Marvel
Legendary Star-Lord #11
Loki: Agent of Asgard #13
Magneto #17
Nova #29
Spider-Man and the X-Men #5
Superior Iron Man #7
Uncanny X-Men #33
Wolverines #14

Johnson Dominant in Texas

Originally written for CLNS Radio.

Jimmie Johnson won the Duck Commander 500 from Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.

Johnson had a dominant car throughout the race, leading a race-high 128 laps.  

After a late caution shook up the running order, Johnson went from eighth to first in just a few laps, ending with a strong move around Kevin Harvick and Jamie McMurray.

Photo courtesy Sean Gardner/Getty Images

“They brought me a fast racecar,” Johnson said in victory lane.  “It was fast all weekend.”

Johnson said this win was big for his team, who he said have been strong all season but haven’t gotten the victories to prove it.

“We’ve had an awesome start to the year, I know the results don’t show it,” Johnson said.  “I think the off-week was good for us.”

Harvick finished second after leading 96 laps.  He said his car couldn’t keep up with Johnson’s on the final restart.

“Jimmie was really fast for those first couple laps and got around us,” Harvick said.  “I got loose coming off [turn] 4 and then I got in the wall just trying to hang on to where I needed to be.”

Harvick beat Johnson’s teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the line for second place.  Earnhardt said he had a chance to keep the top two finishers behind him on the final restart.

“I had Harvick cleared off of [turn] 2,” Earnhardt said.  “I had a hard time on the top so I wanted to try the bottom in 3 and 4 and he beat me around there.”

“We weren’t as good as the 48 [of Johnson] or the 4 [of Harvick] early in the race, but we definitely improved it.”

Unofficial results:

1. Jimmie Johnson

2. Kevin Harvick

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

4. Joey Logano

5. Brad Keselowski

6. Jamie McMurray

7. Jeff Gordon

8. Kasey Kahne

9. Martin Truex Jr.

10. Carl Edwards

11. Denny Hamlin

12. Ryan Newman

13. David Ragan

14. Kurt Busch

15. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

16. Danica Patrick

17. Greg Biffle

18. Trevor Bayne

19. Aric Almirola

20. Austin Dillon

21. AJ Allmendinger

22. Clint Bowyer

23. Matt Kenseth

24. Tony Stewart

25. Kyle Larson

26. Sam Hornish Jr.

27. Casey Mears

28. David Gilliland

29. Brett Moffitt

30. Chris Buescher

31. Michael McDowell

32. Landon Cassill

33. Alex Bowman

34. Matt DiBenedetto

35. Cole Whitt

36. Mike Bliss

37. Alex Kennedy

38. Josh Wise

39. Justin Allgaier

40. Michael Annett

41. Paul Menard

42. Ryan Blaney

43. JJ Yeley

Photo courtesy Chris Graythen/Getty Images

NASCAR '15 Given Release Date

The newest NASCAR video game will be released on May 22, developer DM Racing announced on Friday.

The new title, NASCAR '15, is a standalone update to the previous game, NASCAR '14.  Developer DMi Games took over the NASCAR license in January.

NASCAR '15 will not be a completely new game, but will instead be a glorified update to NASCAR '14.  The game will feature the current lineup of Sprint Cup Series drivers, the 2015 schedule and rules changes, along with over 60 paint schemes.  There will also be DLC content in the future.

After DMi Games took over the NASCAR license from developer Eutechnyx, the company promised to bring a new NASCAR sim racer to current-gen consoles.  The company announced Friday it is hard at work on that game, which should hit PS4, Xbox One and PC sometime in 2016.

NASCAR '15 will be available on May 22 for PS3 and Xbox 360 for $19.99, exclusively at Gamestop.  The game will be available digitally on the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Store, as well as on PC via Steam. 

You can now preorder the game on PS3 and Xbox 360 on Gamestop's website.

What do you think of NASCAR '15? Will you be jumping behind the wheel on May 22?

Weekly Pull List: 4/8/2015

For all the comics available this week, head to Comixology.  Any breaking comics news is on Comic Book Resources.

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Saga #27
The Walking Dead #140

DC
Convergence #1
Convergence: Batman and Robin #1
Convergence: Harley Quinn #1
Convergence: Nightwing/Oracle #1
Convergence: Speed Force #1
Batman: Arkham Knight #2

Marvel
All-New Hawkeye #2
Angela: Asgard's Assassin #5
Ant-Man #4
Captain Marvel #14
Darth Vader #4
Deadpool #45
Guardians 3000 #7
Howard the Duck #2
Hulk #14
Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #12
Spider-Man 2099 #11
Spider-Woman #6
Storm #10