Appraising Sarcastic Inedible
I was kindly sent a complimentary copy of Amazing Fantastic Incredible, Stan Lee’s comicbook autobiography (with the “assistance” of Peter David and Colleen Doran) (and yes, reading this, one...
View ArticleThings I Really Want To Love About Comics: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Sorry for the delay in this post–I got hit with a bad cold over the weekend, and I’m just now to the point where I can think about saying anything coherent. (I don’t know if I can actually say anything...
View ArticleThis Is Going to Be an Interesting Weekend
Those of you hoping for a review of ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ on this website will probably need to look elsewhere; I’ve never been particularly interested in seeing Zack Snyder’s take on...
View Articlebecause I got like twenty emails asking me what I thought about the DOCTOR...
The problem with any retelling of the Doctor Strange origin story – and although I am more or less tired of origin stories as “first movies” in superhero cinema, I make an exception here, because...
View ArticleApparently I Have a Monkey’s Paw I Didn’t Know About
As I have previously mentioned, the one bright spot about the existence of the otherwise extremely uninspiring and uninteresting ‘Batman v Superman’ movie (really, I remember having huge misgivings as...
View ArticleEzra Klein Is Wrong About Civil War (Again)
Warning: some spoilers for the new Captain America film follow. Oh, and the Civil War comics, but those are like a decade old now so who cares. Ezra Klein has a column up at Vox wherein he explains...
View ArticleAnnouncing RA-BOKA: KINGDOM OF THE BOUND
For a while, people have been asking “when are you going to release a collected edition of Al’Rashad like you said you wanted to do, we want to buy that.” Yes! We did ask about that! In answer,...
View ArticleRandom Thoughts on DC Rebirth
This isn’t going to be thoughts on the actual issue; I made the decision back in about April 2007 (during the execrable ‘Countdown to Final Crisis’ and ‘Amazons Attack’) that I wasn’t going to be...
View ArticleRA-BOKA: Book One, Page One
If you want to see Page One of Ra-Boka, clicketh thee here. Remember: if you want pages more regularly, the key is our Patreon – we’re less than $50 away from two pages per month.
View Article“Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya…”
*looks around* Well, what do you know, they didn’t change the locks on me…! Hello, citizens. My name is Justin. If you recall (and even if you don’t), I used to write about comics and stuff here, way...
View ArticleThings I Love About Comics: Doctor Demonicus
It’s been too long since I talked about comic-book related stuff that just tickles me pink. And I want to rectify that by talking about one of my favorite comic-book villains, Doctor Demonicus. No,...
View ArticleMarvel Movies: The Abridged Edition
So let’s say that you (or more likely, your friend who sent you to this webpage and is dragging you to the Doctor Strange movie, or maybe the Google search algorithm that directed you here) want to get...
View ArticleWhy Marvel and I Don’t Hang Out Much Anymore: An Interview With Myself
Hello internetters, it’s Justin again, recently returned from a self-imposed comics blogging hiatus, and I wanted to talk to you about Marvel Comics. What are the odds, right? I didn’t mean to leave it...
View ArticleOld Man Yells At Cloud (Marvel edition)
So Martin Scorsese said that the Marvel movies are “not cinema” and the internet kind of blew up because it is inherently polarizing, and the possibility that Scorsese is both one of our most talented...
View ArticleIf you can Schumacher it there you can Schumacher it anywhere
Following Joel Schumacher’s death earlier this week, there was the inevitable return of one of nerddom’s longest-living arguments, namely the quality of the two Batman films he directed. Granted, the...
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