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Magazine Archives for:
July 2015
Ma and Pa Kent vs Man of Steel
Who is Superman, really? That’s one of the more compelling questions about one of the most interesting figures in world culture. (I don’t think of Superman as being a “comic book” character. Since at least… [more]
Madness is Waiting: Hannibal Season Three Episode Eight
With episode eight of Hannibal’s third season, The Great Red Dragon, we’ve jumped ahead three years in time to the events of the first Hannibal novel, Red Dragon. It’s a dramatic jump, one that fundamentally… [more]
Southern Bastards #10: A Force of Nature
Coach Big is dead. That fact no doubt affects people in lots of different ways in Craw County, and the larger mythic universe of Southern Bastards. But before we get to all of that, the… [more]
Rasputin #7: Ghosts
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living” -Arthur C. Clarke That’s a very interesting maxim to apply to Grigori Rasputin, particularly in… [more]
Invisible Republic #5: One Door Opens… Then Ten Others
At the end of issue #5 of Invisible Republic, we’ve reached the end of the first story arc in style. Opening up its secrets like a very well-written television series, the big twist at the… [more]
Smorgasbord #23: Islands in the Sun
Our cups runneth over as Tom and Shawn discuss SDCC trailers and casting news, October Previews, and Marvel’s attempt to revive Franklin Delano Bluth. We also review the first issues of Power Up, Godzilla in… [more]
Outdoor Basketball Goals, Ant-Man, and Twinkies: Ambivalence at the Multiplex
When we first decided to buy a house, I had one requirement. I wanted a basketball goal. It’s not that I was a serious basketball player or anything, but having an outdoor goal seemed necessary—like… [more]
Worst. Episode. Ever.: “I’ve Got Batman in my Basement”
The success of Batman: The Animated Series can not be understated. Debuting on September 5th, 1992 until September 15th 1995, the series has long been known for its dark atmosphere, in line with the Tim… [more]
Ernest Cline’s Armada: One Remove Too Many
At last, Ernest Cline, best-selling author of Ready Player One, has released his second novel, Armada. RPO was so fun to read, and so perfectly constructed, that its follow-up was bound to be disappointing. And… [more]
Where the Kaiju Things Are: All Monsters Attack
After Destroy All Monsters, Toho took the Godzilla franchise in a controversial direction. The studio decided to throw their biggest director at their smallest film yet, birthing one of the least popular Godzilla movies ever.… [more]
We Are a Zero-Sum Game: Hannibal Season Three Episode Seven
Hannibal comes to its midseason point with this episode, “Digestivo.” Not only does it essentially dramatically conclude the current storylines (before a jump forward multiple years into the events of Red Dragon), it also provides… [more]
Celebrating Apollo 11 Day: A Short Look at Space Travel and Pop Culture
Today is an historic day in world history, and ironically it will probably be some sort of world holiday at some point in the future. But as of 2015, we’re still grappling with the historic… [more]
“And Then It Was Continued Thereafter. Unto All Eternity.”: A Quite Unexpected Afterthought on The Multiversity
By far the biggest news to come out of SDCC, for me personally, was She Makes Comics winning best documentary at the independent film festival. Second to this was the fruit borne of the “Multiversity… [more]
She Makes Comics Wins Best Documentary at the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival
Sequart is proud to announce that our film She Makes Comics won best documentary at the 2015 CCI Independent Film Festival! At the festival, which ran concurrently with the San Diego Comic-Con, She Makes Comics screened… [more]
Lost Soul Tells the Story of Richard Stanley’s Dr. Moreau
Richard Stanley’s The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the great unmade films in the history of science fiction cinema, yet unlike many “unmade” films, such as Jodorowsky’s Dune, this project actually did yield… [more]
Richard Bensam on Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen
As part of its ongoing Patreon campaign, Sequart runs a Book / Movie of the Month Club. Patrons get a digital copy of a Sequart book or movie at the beginning of each month, and… [more]
Pluto: The Popular Culture Planet
Pluto, which our species is seeing up close for the first time this week, is a planet almost as firmly embedded in popular culture as Mars, and yet we know comparatively nothing about it. Since… [more]
You Dropped Your Forgiveness: Hannibal Season Three Episode Six
For a show perpetually willing to spend its time ruminating intellectually on personal philosophies, psychology, and characters’ perspectives Hannibal is also never short on events. The show achieves this wonderful complimentary and contrasting balance between… [more]
Smorgasbord #22: Spirited Away
It’s the pre-SDCC episode, so don’t expect any big news. Instead, Shawn and Tom find the time to talk about Warren Ellis’s new James Bond title, Dan Slott’s new Twitter war with Bleeding Cool, Dynamite… [more]
Mythology, Aunt May, and Fairy Tales: A Monday Morning Mosaic
How does the collective comics community respond to the news that an Oscar-winning and highly respected actress might participate in the next Spider-Man movie? Why, with weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, of course. [more]
5 Movies that Deserve Comic Spin-Offs
As this writer got into reading comics, he noticed that dozens of movies are comic adaptations. It was a startling realization to see Men in Black, The Mask, Wanted, Oblivion, The Crow, Kick-Ass, Snowpiercer, The… [more]
Dragon Age: Magekiller to Hit Shelves in December
This writer remembers buying and playing Dragon Age: Origins with the Awakening expansion pack when he was a little younger. It happened to be one of his favorite RPGs behind Fallout 3, Star Wars: KOTOR,… [more]