Summer of Comic Book Movies Not Going So Well
With Thor, X-Men First Class and Green Lantern, this was the summer of comic book movies. Too bad they weren’t very good and didn’t do all that well. Domestically they all look to tread water and not...
View ArticleWhy the Comic Book Movies Are Failing
DC and Marvel have thrown three comic book superheroes at the big screen and they all got shot down. Not badly shot down, but performed weakly. None of them have turned a profit on the domestic box...
View ArticleAre Comic Books Dead?
Sure the theaters are plastered with comic book movies. The Marvel and DC line are being thrown out into theaters all summer. But that’s just Hollywood’s desperation for IP’s to build blockbusters...
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The Spirit movie review
The Spirit is one of the odder comic book movies ever made, but its spirit is much closer to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Strikes Again. It’s one of the few comic book movies that actually is a comic...
View ArticleSecret Six, What a Crock
The current incarnation of Secret Six was one of the more intriguing things DC was doing, emphasis on was. The entire dinosaur fantasy world trip and the trip to hell already killed it in a downfall of...
View ArticleComics Comedy
With all the outrage over a Smallville Season 11 coming out in comic book form, you would think that there was something really awful happening, like a Doctor Who- Star Trek The Next Generation...
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Irredeemable/Incorruptible’s Irredeemable Ending
There was a brief shining period when the Irredeemable and Incorruptible series were some of the most exciting things going on in superhero comics. Forget the umpteenth death and resurrection of...
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21st Century Dead edited by Christopher Golden
A zombie anthology is dead from page one. Like most gimmicky anthologies it’s limited by its topic, and zombies, despite the sheer number of movies and comics about them are not very interesting. 21st...
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Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? It’s A Comic Book Stunt?
Superhero comics run on the old serial narrative. Hero faces death. Hero is threatened by death. Then Hero saves the day. And then after a few hundred issues you have to give the threat some...
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Kick Ass 2 Movie Review
Kick Ass did a good job of building a movie around seven issues of a comic book. It did it by fixing some of the holes and expanding the characters. Kick Ass 2 tries to do the same thing, but it has...
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