This week we review Disney’s Big Hero 6! Of course, we rushed out opening weekend to see it and of course, it’s Tweeks Approved. It was a winner on Baymax alone, but watch our video to see what else we loved about this Marvel comic turned tear-jerker Disney animated movie.
Superheroes have been the default setting for American comics for so long – more than forty years; long enough for two generations to grow up – that they’ve been hybridized and cross-pollinated more than wheat, with not just the usual revisionist, retro, neo-retro, counterrevisionist, revolutionary, postmodern, primitivist, and reactionary strains from the usual sources, but…
I am reluctant to name anything “the best” because that appellation is usually very subjective. It’s easier to name something as “my favorite” because… how can you argue that? You may say that I have no taste but my favorite something is my favorite. James Bond has existed in the movies for over fifty years…
WonderCon is Anya’s favorite Con, so even though we were previously committed last weekend to attend the California State Thespian Festival, we made sure to at least stop by the Anaheim Convention Center on the way home. We had to turn down a bunch of interviews and couldn’t even attend any panels (not even the…
There was a lot of sturm and drang at Pixar before they committed to making Toy Story 2, afraid their golden child might be ruined by a lackluster sequel. Not to worry, it was charming and a box office hit. They wisely waited until they had the exact story to tell for Toy Story 3,…
Students of history know that 355 was the code name assigned to a woman who spied on behalf of George Washington, during the war for independence. We never learned who she was and the digits have been immortalized in pop culture ever since. Most recently, it was appended to the female empowerment action film The…
American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-64 by John Wells, TwoMorrows Publishing, $39.95 retail hardcover; $11.95 digital When Editor-in-Supremo Mike Gold asked me to review American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964, I said, “It sounds like my childhood between two covers.” So he sent it to me. First, the bad news. This isn’t a bunch of reprints from the…
