Betty Draper Is No Emma Frost, while Superman's Boots Are For Walking

Its a shame that the casting director on X-Men: First Class is blind.  How on earth could anyone cast January Jones to play everyone’s favorite bad girl X-Man gone good Emma Frost?  In the words of Stephen Strucker better known as Johnny from Airplane, “Where did you get that dress, it’s awful, and those shoes [...]

Donald Duck Does Inception, Vampires Bite X-Men, And the Mandarin Biopic

I’m waiting to be impressed.  I’ve reached that age, where I’ve pretty much seen everything and nothing is blowing my skirt up anymore.  Case in point, Inception.  Sure it was visually stunning and it kept me interested for two hours but– it seemed familiar. Maybe if Leonardo DiCaprio hadn’t done Shutter Island earlier this year, [...]

Batgirl Is Bulletproof, Hit-Girl Goes Berserk, The Sentry Is A Junkie

Its February and Marvel’s Siege rolls on as does DC Blackest Night. But I what caught my eye was what both companies have coming up later this year.  Its not another cross-over, but for DC a new universe coming in March.  Christened First Wave, they are going for an Art Deco, Pulp, and Noir feel.  [...]

Snuff, Sidekicks, and the Apocalypse Suite

This summer’s comic book equivalent of a snuff film has finally come to an end with the release of Ultimatum issue 5, Marvel’s swan song for their Ultimate imprint.  The imprint was launched in 2000 with the idea of luring in new readers by using existing popular characters (Spider-Man, X-Men, etc.) without the baggage of [...]

Latveria Takes Norse Refugees or What I Read in April

Hopefully, I’ll have discipline to keep up with this one and make it a monthly post.  I figure I might as well gab about what’s on my night stand other than news magazines shouting about economic doom and gloom.  And speaking of Doom. J. Michael Straczynski is the first writer in almost twenty years to [...]

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