Everyone take a deep breath, because the movie that the internet has been demanding has been confirmed. Deadpool will be front and center on the big screen! The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the long-awaited and heavily demanded X-Men spin-off will be released in February of 2016. Twentieth Century Fox announced that Tim Miller will be taking…
Amazon is looking for its own piece of superhero pie! As a new season of pilots will eventually hit the web, amongst them will be a resurrection of the cult classic, The Tick. The comedy stars Patrick Warburton (Emperor’s New Groove, Family Guy) as a bumbly, broad-jawed superhero in bright blue, and the originator of…
After much speculation, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson took to Twitter to announce his official casting as Black Adam in the DC Comics universe. Black Adam is the nemesis to costumed crusader Shazam, formerly known as Captain Marvel. “Kneel at his feet or get crushed by his boot.” My honor to become.. #BlackAdam #TheAntiHero #DCComics pic.twitter.com/Qk55eNf3R7…
When first describing this series to a friend, the TV shows Osmosis Jones and The Magic School Bus came up in the conversation. The concept of the human body being used as sci-fi terrain is not unexplored, but Biowars is more than a trek through the biological system with the help of a magical vehicle. It’s more…
It came earlier than I had imagined it would: the execrable DC-wide tie-in issue. Grayson #3 is yet to be; this is the Grayson: Futures End one-shot. Staring at its cover, with Futures End emblazoned on the very top, and the big, white “#1” in the place of a “#3,” I found myself grimacing. Why couldn’t…
Retconning, a term often encountered by even the most casual of fans, is one of the most significant, game-changing ideas in the world of entertainment (comics, television, etc.), and yet most people don’t know it from the kind of clubs Tiger Woods uses on the golf course. This essay will explain what retconning is. Simply…
The second issue of (formerly) Nightwing’s new series, Grayson, seems to prove that Issue One was not a complete fluke, much to my surprise and grudging approval. The first one still stands above the second in terms of making every panel count; despite the fact that the first chapter was shorter by two pages, it felt like…
If Scott Pilgrim is about really wanting something and giving your all to achieve it, Seconds might be about what comes after that: a reality check. These two stories aren’t connected per se, but coming from the same author, a few years apart, one can see how they track the progress of a young generation. Bryan Lee…
After reading the synopsis for Translucid, the first thing I wondered was why everyone who likes superheroes isn’t reading this series and talking about it already. Comixology’s little blurb for the BOOM! Studios series goes like this: The Horse has been the arch-enemy of The Navigator for years. But The Horse feels The Navigator’s moral compass slipping,…
For some comics you can read in paper or on your favorite handheld device, here are a few fairly new or continuing series. Nothing here is from the Big Two (Marvel or DC) and only one is vaguely about masked superheroes, but there sure are a lot space suits and detectives. All You Need Is…
Webcomics may not be as in vogue as they were a few years ago, but there are still quite a number of continuing series out there. And the ones that have stuck it out are usually the better for it. Perhaps these online series make inconvenient beach reading, but if you haven’t heard of these…
For anyone unaware as to what happened, we have retaken the site and are now running our usual pieces again. Enjoy! —The Editor There are quite a few Guardians of the Galaxy comics on the market right now as Marvel amps up publicity for the characters about to hit the big screen in less than…
