(NOTE: This is a repost of a review I wrote on the BMMB a few years ago, with some minor cleanup done. I'm re-posting it here in anticipation of a review for a related movie; this way, I don't have to re-cover the basics for those not familiar with the series.)

“Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. Yet by the blade of knights, mankind ( Read more... )

...I think that if you enjoy something, you must see some redeeming value in it, and thus there's no reason to feel guilty about liking it. Take, for instance, my favorite retarded movie ever - Showdown in Little Tokyo. It's an awful movie, without question - predictable, stupid, cliched, silly, etc. But it also has Dolph Lundgren at his Dolph ( Read more... )

So today, I bought this:

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"Your bouncers here, the Sisterhood of Blood Mummies? They're badass, I'll give you that, but I've gone up against them before, and guess what? I'm still standing, and these ladies are the only ones of their kind left."

Last time I wrote about Xombi back in May, I predicted that it would last a year and then get cancelled. As it turns out, I was ( Read more... )

Hey, gentlemen! Do you ever wish you could live the glamorous life of a killer-for-hire who inevitably dies a tragic-but-sometimes-noble death as comeuppance for your sins? Do you look at the Grendel Legacy started by Hunter Rose and say, "Why not me?"

Well, if you do, you're kinda fucked up. But I've got good news for you nonetheless! Now you, too ( Read more... )

The Captain America movie made me so fucking happy.

...don't. I just recently purchased five of the eight issues (non-consecutively) that have been published, and so far I'm pretty thoroughly unimpressed.

THUNDER Agents, for those who came in late, was a comic published in the '60s by Tower Comics and drawn (perhaps written, too? I don't recall offhand) by industry icon Wally Wood. It came about when ( Read more... )

With DC Comics primed and ready for a new implosion, we've been getting a seemingly-endless stream of announcements for the 52 new titles that DC will be debuting in September. As is to be expected, some of these could be alright, while others OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS I CAN'T EVEN

Okay, now that I'm done shaking and choking on my own vomit, let' ( Read more... )

I write an awful lot on here about comics, but I don't write much about comics that I like. That is, unfortunately, because there simply aren't that many comics out there anymore that I really like - certainly not many that I like enough to write about them. I like the two Power Man (with and without Iron Fist) mini-series that we've gotten so far ( Read more... )

This is an actual excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on DC Comics hero Black Lightning:

"The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a black hero who was actually a white racist and later described by comics historian Don Markstein as 'an insult to practically everybody with any ( Read more... )