Month: April 2016
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Comic Book Review – I Hate Fairyland Volume 1
Creative Team: Writer: Skottie Young Art: Skottie Young Colors: Jean-Francois Beaulieu Letters: Nate Piekos What would happen if Dorothy never left Oz? Â If she was looking for those damn ruby slippers for the rest of her life? Â That’s the premise of Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland, which follows Gert, and young girl who makes a…
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Movie Review – The Jungle Book
Live-action versions of their classic animated features is a thing for Disney right now, and the next one is The Jungle Book. Â Yeah, I know it’s technically adapted from the Kipling book but make no mistake the classic animated version is the inspiration here. Â Thankfully, it’s a really good adaptation. The first thing that stands…
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Movie Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The elephant in the room, right? Â Yes, I saw BvS: DoJ. Â I don’t hate it, but there hasn’t been a comic book movie that’s ever elicited a wider range of reactions from me. Â For every cool moment or visual, there are long stretches where my only reaction is a sigh or eyeroll or double facepalm.…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #6
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Gabriel Hernandez Walta Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles Much of the unease and tension in The Vision thus far has come from what we haven’t seen as much as what we have. Â Tom King and company pulls that trick again here in The Vision #6. Â Again, we get…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #1
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Over the years with my sporadic obsession with comics, I mostly missed comics featuring Black Panther. Â It was the same way with a lot of important characters – I think they only exposure to Hank Pym was in his ‘Dr. Pym’…
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Stop making Batman v Superman about Marvel versus DC
If there’s a thing in comics fandom I hate right now it’s this adversarial tone a lot of the chatter takes on nowadays. Â A spirited debate is fun, no doubt, but this isn’t that, it’s just angry people shouting at each other. Â It’s there in sports now, video games, even politics. Â There are certain groups…