Kindness and delicacy are not words you associate with Batman. But those are the two big concepts I took away from the first issue of Batman: Last Knight on Earth. Written by Scott Snyder, with art by Greg Capullo it’s already off to a great start given the epochal nature of their run on the …
Last month was something of a TV bloodbath. A vast amount of shows went down and even some of the survivors have only survived to be given a victory lap final year. It’s always rough when this happens, especially as what comes hot on the heels of the death registry, is the birth announcements. There’s …
The Nerdist. Members of Thrilling Adventure Hour. The social awkwardness of a billionaire in a suit of rubber armour punching bad people. The most magnificently deployed profanity I’ve seen so far this year. Sunday Moment of Zen. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=037asnbVstc]
There’s a critical trajectory that every first season of superhero-based TV shows seems to follow. Good premises and interesting casts that are forced to run in place for a half season until the show figures out what it wants to be or, in the case of Agents of SHIELD, the movie the show’s entire arc …
So, today, the internet is melting down because Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel. Apparently this is a bad thing. Because, God forbid an Oscar winning writer, director and actor should be involved in a movie! That might make it good! Think of the children! Think of …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8evyE9TuYk] Before the Fall of Gotham, Bruce Wayne Blake stopped being scared a long time ago, the anger never faded. Sitting across from Bruce Wayne, a man wearing a suit that cost more than Blake’s salary, he saw it in the older man’s eyes; the blank, cold rage of being wounded by the world …
Today was going to be catching Here Comes The Boom and End of Watch as a warm up to going back to the movie essays, as well as prepping the Titanium Rain piece for launch and digging into both The Child of Time, the first collection of the 11th Doctor comic stories from Doctor …
So today I didn’t go to the movies. Here are the reasons why: -One book review written -Two interviews moved further along -One Blogbusters piece compiled and filed. -Ten miniature spaceship write ups completed It was a full day, and I was really pleased that I was able to get some stuff …
And then I spent a week writing 12,000 words on a project I’m going to err on the side of caution and assume I can’t talk about yet, prior to writing another 12,000 to finish it off this week. How have you been? Blogbusters isn’t on the site yet this week but do go …
I love comics. I love them because, and often despite, of the fact that I worked as a comic retailer for seven years and still work as a comics journalist. In that time I’ve seen every side of the industry, from the boundless enthusiasm and talent of the small press to the very best and …