For the past twenty years, the Star Wars franchise has detailed the intricacies of the Sith through various novels. Narratives range from Darth Bane (the creator of the Rule of Two, the edict behind the fact that there’s only Palpatine and Vader) to Darth Plagueis (Palpatine’s Master and the most likely candidate responsible for Anakin Skywalker’s…
WARNING: Major Star Trek: Nemesis spoilers ahead. From the start, everyone knew Star Trek: Nemesis was the Enterprise-D’s last time on the silver screen. It tied too many loose ends to be otherwise. Will Riker finally marry Deanna Troi and gain captaincy of the USS Titan? Dr. Crusher was leaving for Starfleet Medical. Even Picard confronted a future…
When Superman died at the hands of Doomsday, several government agencies swooped in to claim possession of his body. Among them was Cadmus, an agency that dealt specifically with genetic research and cloning. Desperate, Cadmus actually stole Superman’s body from his tomb. Supergirl eventually stole back the corpse, but not before Cadmus was able to…
Save for a few exceptions, all Kryptonians are jerks. Give them superpowers and they become walking atrocities. Case in point: General Zod. Always the worst Krypton has to offer, Zod makes his Earth One debut in the third Superman: Earth One graphic novel. Only this time he’s Superman’s uncle. Yeah, I don’t believe it either….
The first Superman: Earth One graphic novel ended with Clark Kent embracing his destiny as Superman. Volume Two deals with what comes next. Writer J. Michael Straczynski is known for multilayered plot-building; one twist is often the backdrop into a deeper web of revelation. In this he delivers in spades. A poignant moment is Clark’s…
It’s a tale as old as time: Girl has perfect life. Girl goes out for a little fun. The party at which the “fun” commences gets crashed by drug-addled, blood-thirsty murderers. Girl wakes up to find she’s a zombie. Girl abandons her old life for the sake of not cracking open heads for the sweet…
Marvel Comics writers draw inspiration from all literal archetypes when creating characters: the man-monster (Hulk), the billionaire playboy (Iron Man), the mythical god (Thor), and so on. But for every rising star, there were dozens disregarded because of inadequate manpower and the financial pressure of developing characters proven to sell books. With so many heroes…
Let’s say you have this suit capable of changing into anything you want it to. You just think of what you want it to look like, and it becomes it. Now let’s say you have this rival who, while well-intentioned, is a bit of a hothead and has a tendency to blame you for everything…
WARNING: Though this is a speculative article, it does contain information about the Civil War storyline found in the comics. Reader discretion is advised. When it comes to superhero movies, Marvel has been running a very successful game plan. The first Avengers movie was a grand act of drama, having multiple characters share screen time…
The term “event” in comic books means a massive plotline that affects everything in the aforementioned comic book universe. The Final Crisis DC event was a game-changer because heroes died. Not the “come back to life next issue” deaths comic books are infamous for. They actually died. People were erased from existence. An entire universe,…
2011’s Green Lantern was lauded as a failure, and with good reason. Crappy casting, terrible dialogue, and major plot deviations left the audience with a bad taste in their mouths. The movie is so bad that it would take a miracle to even entertain the idea of a sequel. Chief among Lantern’s faults is the casting of…
Gundams. Giant robots. War. People who have no business piloting million-dollar war machines. War. The Gundam franchise asks simple questions: what would war on an interplanetary scale look like? What happens when the giant robots replace the common soldier as instruments of destruction? Just where is the point where ultra-violence becomes overkill? The answer to all these…
