Hey Marvel? Remember how you were making Spiderman make a deal with the devil to end his marriage and save his aunt? So you de-aged him and made him single to increase sales? You know, for the kids? People have been tracking sales and....uh, NO, NOT SO MUCH. As far as I can tell, all you did was alienate current readers and didn't pick up ANY ( Read more... )

So, you know. On Saturday, got together with the guys and the topic of Captain America came up. "Did you hear about the flack about Captain America and the Teabaggers?" I had not, though when I heard the topic, I knew what it would be about. And how ludicrous it would be. I was right.

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OK look, Marvel. We both know that DC has had a long head-start on you when it comes to adapting their characters to animation and doing a good job of it. Hell, even of doing a BAD job of it. I appreciate that you've adapted the Avengers like, what, five or six times now? This new version? Well, it doesn't look half bad. I mean, you've got ( Read more... )

Did you know that in the 1970s, Superman had to battle a guy named Vartox, who was as strong as he was, from space and who's design was based on Sean Connery in ZARDOZ? Yeah, it's true.

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....and with that, we know when Batman is back in active continuity. Well, Bruce Wayne, in any case. Dick will stay as Batman until about November of next year, when the 'Return of Bruce Wayne' miniseries concludes (starting in April). Looks like this gives Grant Morrison a chance to cover more wacky Silver Age hijinks...which is when I think he ( Read more... )

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At least, according to iO9.com. Most of them are pretty spot-on, though I'm not on board with all of them. The parallax one, for example, is a retcon repair to undo damage by poor editor choice in the past. Some of Wolverine's stuff was never actually in comics, just discussions that writer/artists had in the early days (and that Lupine crap? ( Read more... )

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So if you're my age, you likely remember the D&D cartoon. Cheesy at points, sometimes woefully inaccurate of the actual game experience...and yet fun and enjoyable all the same. The show ran for three seasons (which for a Saturday Morning show was pretty good) and though I didn't think it did at the time, it turns out they did push the boundaries ( Read more... )