Much as I love the genre, I have two big problems with superheroes. The first is that as a genre it is fragile, like a soap bubble. If you look at it too closely; say by asking questions regarding the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went to see “Thor” as much as a fan of Kenneth Branagh as a fan of Marvel Comics. I admit I was a little concerned – but not because I was worried that Branagh could not handle the material,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well with the DVD release this weekend I finally got around to seeing X-Men: First Class. I don’t know why I didn’t bother with it in the theater. Probably a combination of having been burned by X-Men 3 and Wolverine:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I always like to give superhero shows and movies the benefit of the doubt. It is one of my favorite genres after all. Regrettably, this leaves me even more likely to get disappointed when they fail my expectations. So having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I always find myself being drawn to super heroes. As a cartoonist one of my dreams growing up was to be part of the Marvel Bullpen drawing all of my favorites. I made up my own characters and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally going to see the Avengers was an entertaining comedy of errors. I had planned to go see it in the U-District on a 1:00 clock showing and based on what I had heard about sold out showings I wasn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for some time me and all of my friends at the Dreaming Comics and Games store have been teased by the rumors of Marvel’s cinema universe taking it’s next step with doing an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D television show and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d been curious about Big Hero Six since I started seeing concept art nearly a year ago as the first joint Marvel/Disney’s joint project since Disney’s purchase of Marvel comics. I’d been skeptical about it of course. I especially had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to sit back and relax a bit and catch up on some of the superhero films I missed in the theater. The first on my list, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, was one I’d been wanting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because I definitely needed something funny to clear my pallets from existentialist crime films and I had just seen Captain America: Civil War (which I’m bound to comment on soon) I decided to do Superhero Comedy for this week’s theme. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
