So the premise of this comic is as follows: all of the Earth’s superheroes go off into space to fight the big bad nasty. They all get smoked. Earth now has a ton of super powered sidekicks running rampant because with great power comes great responsibility…how many people really think that teenagers can handle [...]
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A dog, a cat, and a rabbit walk into a dictator’s house…
In general I’m the kind of comic book fan who follows a writer as he goes traipsing from one title to another. I’ll admit it: I’m kind of a literary snob…I think it stems from decades of reading sci-fi and fantasy novels. I reminisce about all of those late nights hiding under the covers [...]
Disney buys my childhood…again.
My entire facebook feed is clogged with the news of how Disney has paid Lucas 4.05 billion dollars for the Star Wars franchise…..and man…there seems to be a lot of hate. I dislike making disparaging comments about a huge chunk of my geekdom (yeah, that’s right, geekdom…as in “Tony’s kingdom of geek friends”) but [...]
Another awesome Previews Review Podcast
In case you haven’t checked out the podcasts to the right, we do a wonderful monthly show where we talk about all the amazing things that are coming out in the Previews magazine. Well worth the listen and you never know when something amazing might be discussed during the show. Hosted by Tony, Juett, and [...]
The best comic in 2011 that no one heard of.
So it was late 2010/early 2011 that I began to notice that the quality of comics coming from Image was just getting amazing. Let me qualify this statement with the general notion that from 2003 until 2009 there just weren’t any good comics coming out of Image except for Walking Dead and Invincible. Sure… there [...]
Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Fatale (short for Femme Fatale) (fm f-tl, -täl) 1. A woman of great seductive charm who leads men into compromising or dangerous situations. 2. An alluring, mysterious woman. [French : femme, woman + fatale, deadly.] I was a little concerned initially when I heard that Brubaker was diving into more of his creator owned work by coming out with Fatale. His Captain America [...]
