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Fighting for Control: Present Masculine and Feminine Emotion in X-Men: Days of Future Past
I very much enjoyed X-Men: Days of Future Past. Even with its flaws, who can complain about that ending, or the post-credits scene? Hands down, my favorite element of the film, outside of the ending,… [more]
An Unknown Soldier in an Unknown War: Joshua Dysart’s Unknown Soldier #4
Joshua Dysart explores the “eye-for-an-eye” model often used against violent “terror” groups in Africa and the Middle East in this issue of the Unknown Soldier #4. [more]
Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Suicide Squad Volume 1 #26
Last Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non-sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time… [more]
Endings & Beginnings: A Review of Nightwing #30
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Bryan Cranston Calls Breaking Bad Finale into Question
In an interview with Ashleigh Banfield on CNN, Bryan Cranston has called the ending of Breaking Bad into question. Needless to say, this has spoilers for those who haven’t finished watching the show. If you’ve… [more]
X-Men: Days of Future Past is Just Okay
Which still makes it better than a lot of the franchise. [more]
Serenity, Leaves on the Wind #5: Love Keeps Them Flying
[This review contains minor spoilage. It’s a bit spoiler-y. (I feel obliged to put it in Whedonesque terms.)] Issue #5 of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind has a distinctly Whedon voice. I mean that in… [more]
On Season Two of Hannibal
A generally spoiler-free look at the second season of the delightfully depraved chronicles of everyone’s favorite cannibal… [more]
Twain and Tesla Versus Evil: A Review of The Five Fists of Science
A steampunk graphic novel starring the bromance between Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla as they create giant robots and battle Cthulu cults. [more]
American Dad Finishes its Run on Fox
Although this weekend saw the release of Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West, it also saw the first weekend without one of his other shows, American Dad, on Fox. After nine… [more]
Timecrimes is Good, but not Unexpected
This Spanish science-fiction thriller wasn’t quite what was advertised… [more]
“Make Him a Monster Again, Make Him Dangerous”: The American Superhero Comics of Mark Millar, Part 21
Continued from last week. Morrison later made a point of emphasising how central his contributions to Millar’s Swamp Thing had been; “I worked out a large scale thematic structure based on a journey through the… [more]
Bugged Out!: Scarab Reconsidered 20 Years On, Part Thirteen
And so the big wind-up (or wind-down, depending on how you look at things) begins — I have no idea how much tinkering John Smith had to do with “The Power And The Glory,” his… [more]
Action Comics #1 Up for Auction
It’s always news when a copy of Action Comics #1 goes on the auction block, and that’s exactly what happened this past weekend when San Diego based collector John C. Wise put his collection up… [more]
The Lion, the Witch, and The Art of Neil Gaiman
Does Neil Gaiman ever get into your dreams? I don’t mean literal dreams where you toss and turn in the middle of the night and wake up convinced that the Goodyear Blimp is being piloted… [more]
Capital Thoughts: Captain America #20
Steve Rogers wakes in a hospital bed. He’s been dreaming of his mother, whether she made the right decision to stay with her worthless husband. Maybe it was a mistake; maybe she just should have… [more]
Food and Social Media: A Review of Chef
Food and Twitter are inextricably intertwined these days – some food shows themselves air tweets live and tweets often make reviews the next day as an example of what the audience is thinking. Jon Favreau… [more]
Game of Thrones and True Blood: I Read the Audiobooks!
Eric Northman describes Oklahoma as empty, economically exploitable territory containing nothing but oilrigs and Indian casinos in Charlaine Harris’s final Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Ever After. While not all of Oklahoma matches this description, the… [more]
Why Worldbuilding Matters
A staple in genre fiction is the act of worldbuilding; when a creator crafts a mythology of certain fantastic elements and illustrates how they interact within the setting of the story. It is not just… [more]
What is Electricomics? Right Now, It’s an Illustration of Comics “Journalism”
Over the previous few days, virtually every comics site has covered the announcement that Alan Moore’s creating a new app which will somehow revolutionize digital comics. It’s called “Electricomics,” and it’s been reported as both… [more]
X-Men: To the Outback & Beyond… Part 7
Writer: Chris Claremont Penciler: Rick Leonardi Inker: P. Craig Russell Colorist: Glynis Oliver Letter: Tom Orzechowski Editor: Bob Harras When we left our mutants last, the team had returned to their Outback home following a… [more]
“I Spent Time with Coulson. He’s a Good Man.”
I trusted Phil Coulson from the first moment he appeared onscreen, because he reminded me of someone I knew, a good man, who had a good heart. He was self-effacing and simple, with a sharp,… [more]
Game Changer: A Review of Invincible #111
For months now, Robert Kirkman had been warning fans that issue #111 of his long-running creator owned title Invincible would usher in a new, darker direction for the book. He has said that Mark Grayson… [more]
Tales of the Hidden World: A Book Review
In this wide-ranging collection, the New York Times-bestselling urban fantasist opens doors into hidden places: strange realms bordering our own mundane existence and prowled by creatures of fancy and nightmare. Here are the strange, frequently… [more]
Life Behind the Visor: Tracking Cyclops through the X-Men Films
What happened to Cyclops? It’s a question that’s been burning inside me since the ludicrously terrible “X-Men: The Last Stand.” Finally, “Days of Future Past” provides some answers. [more]