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Late last night, I caught a couple of episodes of the 1990′s X-Men animated series on TV. The dialogue and animation were just as rough as I remember them being, but just watching those two episodes was more enjoyable than watching either of Bryan Singer’s X-Men movies. (There’s really no point in mentioning Brett Ratner’s [...]
After my previous post about Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, I’ve been thinking about how I would do a Batman movie (or series of movies). Buckle up, here we go… First of all, the movies would look very much like a German Expressionist movie, with long shadows and twisted, creepy sets. Gotham City would be heavily [...]
The trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, the final movie in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, is out. Having watched it, my response is…meh. I saw Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in the theater. I remember enjoying both movies, but if I’m being completely honest, the only good thing from either movie that has stuck [...]
Dear DC Comics, This… This… And this… …is how you do a reboot right. And Aaron Diaz, if you ever want to draw a fun, exciting Silver Age/Bronze Age-inspired superhero comic, call me.
I was walking through downtown Lawrence tonight with Brooke and her dear friend, Amy. I was wearing my Flash T-shirt, and as we approached a crosswalk to cross the street, one of a group of young men standing around on the sidewalk called out, “Hey, Flash! Let’s race!” I smiled politely and said, “Nah, I’m [...]
One of the lesser-known superheroes to come out of the Golden Age of 1940s comics was the Hour-Man, “The Man of the Hour.” Chemist Rex “Tick-Tock” Tyler develops the drug “Miraclo,” which gives him heightened strength and endurance for 60 minutes. So of course he decides to put on a costume and fight crime. I [...]
Of all the superheroes coming out this spring and summer, the one I’ve been excited about the most is Green Lantern. I don’t generally read reviews, but just before the movie came out, I was seeing advanced word on Twitter that was discouraging me. Green Lantern just wasn’t getting very good advanced reviews or a [...]
Few things give me as much pleasure as reading a cracking-good superhero comic. I grew up reading superhero comics–I can barely remember a time when I didn’t have superhero comics in my life–and they still haven’t lost their appeal. I love bright, colorful stories of brave people in absurd costumes wielding strange weapons and using [...]
As I’ve mentioned, DC Comics is doing a huge reboot of all of its comics, starting everything over at #1 and introducing a bunch of new titles. Sadly, the more I learn about the reboot, the less enthused I am about it. Some of my dismay at the reboot is fairly petty. For example, I [...]
The biggest comics news in a long, long time–if you haven’t already heard–is that starting in September, DC Comics will be releasing new comics digitally on the same day they’re released in physical stores. As I understand it, that’s huge, considering retailers have fought hard to keep this from happening. But I don’t buy or [...]
