Month: April 2022

That’s what this article highlights. DC screwed the pooch with JUSTICE LEAGUE by tampering. Studio tampering NEVER results in a better movie. My review of JUSTICE LEAGUE is available at our sister site, vampires.com, but I’ll encapsulate for you here. I thoroughly enjoyed it, because of my love for these characters, even while acknowledging its… Continue reading DC Screwed Up

You can’t believe half of what you read on the Internet, and that’s including the supposedly credible news sites. All it takes is for one site to post something of dubious factuality, and then the others start citing that original article as a source, and pretty soon there are countless articles floating around in the… Continue reading News not so bad for JUSTICE LEAGUE?

Warner Brothers have really painted themselves into a corner. If the entire DC cinematic universe had been a flop, as this past weekend’s JUSTICE LEAGUE was a flop (and undeservedly so, it bears mentioning; for my official review of the film, check out vampires.com!), they could just scrap everything and start over. With rumors of… Continue reading After JUSTICE LEAGUE – What Next?

I’ve given this one a bit of thought, and there’s no way to look at it that doesn’t equate to it being bad news for Marvel. Like, really bad news. More than any other creator, Brian Michael Bendis deserves the credit for making Marvel what it is today. Think back to the time before him,… Continue reading Bendis Bails

Racists raised hell over the casting of a black woman as Valkyrie. I didn’t know. I hadn’t heard anything. Nor does it matter. The racists claimed the movie would bomb, and it was a MONSTER hit. As for those people, Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, put it succinctly: They are “horrible people” who “should crawl back… Continue reading Yes, Valkyrie is now black. And I’m fine with that.

A little time and distance–and the fact that I just got around to reading the final issue–have, I hope, lent greater clarity to my appraisal of the “event.” For all its controversy, and the fact that it felt a little drawn out to me, the ending was satisfying. It was great to see the real… Continue reading Looking back at SECRET EMPIRE

I could wax nostalgic all day over “the good ol’ days” (which were for me the 1980s) and its pop cultural touchstones that no longer exist as such in our dreary modern world, and how said world is a sadder place for it. There are no more Saturday morning cartoons, since the basic networks are… Continue reading Toons That Could Never Get Made Today

I know I’ve been guilty of it, too, to some extent. We who make our livings by writing for the trusty ol’ Internet don’t get paid unless we get people to read the articles we post, and it’s a given that sensationalized or salacious posts get more attention. Also, the Internet has no kind of… Continue reading It was a frikkin’ JOKE, people!

The first six pages of the upcoming DOOMSDAY CLOCK title from DC Comics were released at the recent New York Comic Con. This isn’t just the smash-up to end all smash-ups, though, with the heroes of the DC Universe meeting the characters from the WATCHMEN Universe. This is going to be in fact the official… Continue reading DOOMSDAY CLOCK Looks Good

…not where its DC properties are concerned, it doesn’t. Jared Leto and Leonardo Dicaprio are BOTH supposed to play the Joker? Say what, now? And they’ve made the announcement that future DC movies won’t be tied into the “shared” continuity of JUSTICE LEAGUE, basing that decision on the standalone success of WONDER WOMAN. Wait. WONDER… Continue reading WB Doesn’t Know Which Direction Is Up…