Weapon of a Jedi The Force Awakens movie was a Star Wars Renaissance. An explosion of stories, media, video games and more have rushed in to fill the thirty year gap between Episode VI and VII, and the Disney engine shows no sign of stopping. In the coming years we can expect to see fan…
Superman Vs. Predator In the comic book world, Marvel and DC Comics are kings. But sometimes it’s easy to forget the companies standing in their shadows. The Dark Horse company has made its bones by giving titles to the lesser-known heroes in television and movies: Robocop, James Bond, the Predators; you name the hero, Dark…
A movie trailer isn’t the whole story. A movie trailer’s job is to show just enough information to hook the movie-goers into seeing the film in full upon its release date. They usually do this by showing moments of extreme action or putting an epic soundtrack to the segments. Nothing peaks my interest more than…
Remember The Evil Dead? That cheesy, B horror film with Bruce Campbell? Remember Campbell’s character, Ash, that wise-cracking anti-hero with a chainsaw for a right hand? Well, he’s back with a new television show: Ash vs Evil Dead. Let’s talk about that. It’s been thirty years since the original Evil Dead, and Campbell shows it….
NOTE: This is a summary of much of the graphic novel in question. It is full of spoilers. The Death Star. A space station the size of a moon. It took twenty years to make. Untold millions of slaves died in the making of it. Billions of credits poured into it. A weapon capable of reducing…
NOTE: Superman comic and cartoon spoilers below. Superman. One of the world’s most iconic superheroes. His moral compass is nigh-unbreakable. He will not kill. He will not break the law. He doesn’t grandstand, or brag, or exploit his powers for personal gain. He is the role model for all heroes that succeed him. He is…
WARNING: MAJOR spoilers below for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, one of the greatest video games of all time that all of you really should play before reading this, just so you know. Oh, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, a popular MMORPG created by the same guys. When Return of the Jedi debuted in 1983,…
In 2000, Marvel Comics created the Ultimate Universe. The purpose of which was to appeal to a new generation of potential readers without the intimidation of the superheroes’ decades-long backstory. For years Marvel fans have been entertained by new, fresh versions of the superheroes they know and love. But comic books need to have escalating…
Warning, major spoilers ahead. –The Editor It’s a post-Civil War world. Captain America is dead, and his fight against the Superhuman Registration Act (a law that would force superheroes to reveal their secret identities and submit to governmental “training” and “supervision”) is over. Tony Stark, leader of the pro-Registration forces, has voluntarily entered a vegetative…
Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is ground-breaking for many reasons. It was the first comic book to describe a world where the boundaries of right and wrong aren’t so easy to distinguish. It proved that comic books could tackle serious issues like racism and prejudice. It made our heroes real people, dealing with imperfection….
The great thing about Star Wars is that the adventure doesn’t end with the movies. There are dozens of books that take place as far back as 36,000 years before the main trilogy as well as 130 years after Return of the Jedi. The Expanded Universe (as such tales have been collectively called) was set aside when…
In October of 2000, Marvel Comics created the Ultimate Universe. This alternate dimension took favorite characters and de-aged them to make them more relatable to a new generation of comic book fans. Additionally, it freed the characters from the decades of back-history that otherwise would intimidate the new generation from reading the comics. Then in 2011,…
