Tag: comic books
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Do Your Homework – Doctor Strange: Season One
Marvel recently released the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the movie which comes out this November. Â Unlike Captain America: Civil War which is filled with recognizable characters for the most part, Doctor Strange is a relative unknown to the average movie-goer. Â If you’ve watched the teaser, you’ll already know that things are…well, stranger than…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #1
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Over the years with my sporadic obsession with comics, I mostly missed comics featuring Black Panther. Â It was the same way with a lot of important characters – I think they only exposure to Hank Pym was in his ‘Dr. Pym’…
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Stop making Batman v Superman about Marvel versus DC
If there’s a thing in comics fandom I hate right now it’s this adversarial tone a lot of the chatter takes on nowadays. Â A spirited debate is fun, no doubt, but this isn’t that, it’s just angry people shouting at each other. Â It’s there in sports now, video games, even politics. Â There are certain groups…
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Should I Read It? – Marvel’s Civil War
This is the first in a recurring series where I look at an older set of comics (either an event or a series) and decide whether it’s worth tracking down. Mentioning the Civil War comics among comics fans is sure to elicit a strong response – usually negative. Having heard of that for years, when…
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How to Fix the Fantastic Four
I finally broke down and watched last year’s Fantastic Four debacle. It’s terrible, joyless and soulless in a way no movie with “Fantastic” in the title should be, let alone anything with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the DNA. You can’t blame the actors here – we know every one of them can act.…
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Our Free Comic Book Day 2015 Haul!
Above you can see the picks both me and my kids picked out for Free Comic Book Day 2015! Â I didn’t get to get out early so I missed a couple of the free books I wanted (the Dark Horse sampler with the Avatar: The Last Airbender comic, and Terrible Lizard) but we still got…
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Lightning Book Review – Itty Bitty Hellboy
It might seem like an odd combination, Hellboy getting the cutesy ‘Itty Bitty’ treatment, but if you enjoy HB and want to get your younger ones in early, this is a good way. The bright, simple shapes are indeed cute, reminding me a bit of the Powerpuff Girls. Art Baltazar and Franco do a solid…
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Book Review – Dragon Age: Those Who Speak
I got my hands on a galley copy of Dragon Age: Those Who Speak, the latest graphic novel filling in the gaps in the Dragon Age universe.  Written by David Gaider, this comic follows Dragon Age: The Silent Grove and takes Alistair, Varric and Isabela to the Tevinter Imperium, giving us a taste of that foul place, continuing…
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Friday Finds – Solar Sails and LEGO
Happy Friday all! It’s a busy day today, so I’ll get right down to it: Old Game Tuesday – Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – What a fantastic game. Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable – Me pondering sex appeal in comics. Ender’s Game – Might it FINALLY Happen? – We might ACTUALLY get the Ender’s…
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Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable
By now, you may have heard of DC’s mass reboot of most of their comic books, and some of the expected backlash. A new spin, though, is the shall we say gratuitous sexyfication of females that occurred along with it. You can read this response to what’s happened to Starfire from a 7 year-old comic…