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 [...]
Its a new year and I’ve been felled by the flu or a cold or something. But that actually helped since I was hopped up on over the counter drugs, flat on my back, and getting through my stack of comics over the holidays. What was good? What was bad? Well for starters Brian Michael [...]
Let’s open with a bang, I finally finished Umbrella Academy Vol 2: Dallas. In the liner notes (I don’t know what else to call them), writer Gerard Way says that, “Dallas began as an idea for a single-issue adventure, like a great episode of The Twilight Zone or Doctor Who.” Well… mission accomplished. They hit [...]
The big news of the month occurred yesterday, with Disney coughing up $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment. Its not just the comics obviously, its the 7,000 characters in the library that lend themselves to licensing of bedsheets, movies, and videogames. I was laughing as the financial press kept stressing that with this acquisition that Disney [...]
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 [...]
When I was a kid I used to enjoy reading comics in the summertime. Because there would be one crossover event for the summer that was actually important. They used to be interesting and have repercussion that lasted a long time. Anyone remember Marvel’s first Secret Wars back in 1984? The Avengers, the FF, the [...]
Its a new month and time for a recap of what I read last month. Please remember, that I have a short attention span and can’t get to everything in my read pile– so some of these reviews are for books that have been out for a while. Think of it as a recap for [...]
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