Month: March 2022

I think they may have lost me these past couple of issues. I think this series may have leapt over the proverbial Hammerhead. Are we really supposed to believe that they’d kill off Black Widow? This smacks of a publicity stunt and nothing more. In a story involving a Cosmic Cube, wherein everything can be… Continue reading Has SECRET EMPIRE Jumped the Shark?

When I was a kid, I always hated when they’d start running the back-to-school commercials on TV. Today the deluge seems to hit right about the same time it did during my childhood–after the Fourth of July–even though they’ve shortened summer vacation to two instead of three months. I feel bad for the kids of… Continue reading Superheroes Everywhere, and a Tribute to The Master

Last week I made a prediction that Ben Affleck would not be reprising the role of Batman in Matt Reeves’ upcoming movie. Turns out I wasn’t alone, as headlines started popping up all over the Internet that Affleck was going to be “phased out.” THEY claimed it was because of his age–the dude’s only 45,… Continue reading Ben’s Still Batman

Director Matt Reeves has got the chops. His WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES is magnificent, as was its predecessor. LET ME IN was fabulous. CLOVERFIELD was great. In short, it’s a good thing, a very good thing, that he is the guy now in control of Batman’s cinematic future. He hints at a… Continue reading A New Batman Trilogy

After two initially successful but ultimately failed Spider-Man franchises, hopes were high, maybe impossibly high, for the new SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, the wall-crawler’s first film as a part of Marvel Studios wildly successful multi-piece box office juggernaut. How’d it do? Just fine, thank you. This is the Spider-Man movie we’ve all been waiting for. It works… Continue reading Review: SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

The new storyline playing out in the Batman comics promises to be interesting. In particular I’m curious to see how the writer manages to make the Riddler even noticeable when he has to contest with the Clown Prince of Crime. Despite being one of Batman’s signature foes–I’d argue he comes in third behind the Joker… Continue reading The Joker vs. The Riddler

I’m kinda excited about this. Maybe it’s pure gimmickry but I dunno, it looks to have the potential to be awesome. There are going to be seven–that’s SEVEN–parallel universe versions of Batman–but they’re each and every one EVIL! We haven’t seen what they’re gonna look like yet, just shadowy outlines. But those outlines look sweet!… Continue reading Reign of the Dark Batmen

When I was a little kid, I didn’t have any understanding of “camp.” They used to run the old BATMAN TV series every weekday evening, and I never missed an episode. When Batman and Robin would get into the fisticuffs with the bad guys of the week, I’d jump around and shadowbox and help them… Continue reading Remembering Adam West

Some Middle Eastern countries hostile to Israel are refusing to let WONDER WOMAN be shown there, because star Gal Gadot is of Israeli descent. This will deprive Warner Brothers of about three dollars and thirty-five cents of revenue, which it will more than make up for in providing free publicity for the film, and also… Continue reading WONDER WOMAN Still Making Waves

Faulkner once said that the only thing worth writing about was ‘the human heart in conflict with itself.” Or in other words, the human-ness of a story is what makes it or breaks it. Not the “plot” but the “what,” to again quote Faulkner. I loved both BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN and SUICIDE SQUAD, but I… Continue reading Review: WONDER WOMAN