Flash Crossover Crisis: Green Arrow’s Perfect Shot By Barry Lyga 320 pages, Amulet Books, $13.99 I’ll stipulate upfront that Barry Lyga is an old pal from his days at Diamond Distributing. I’ve delighted to see him become a successful YA novelist and here, he brings his two worlds together in the latest of Amulet Books’…
Now this is how superheroes inspire people! I want to join his Justice League! A four-year-old dons a cape and dresses up as his favourite superhero to go litter picking in a bid to rid his home town of rubbish. Originally at www.dailymail.co.uk
“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” Oh great. It’s not bad enough I’m in a Godfather movie, so I probably have the life expectancy of a mayfly in a cancer ward, I’m in The Godfather: Part III. Still, even The Godfather: Part III would be preferable to where I’m actually…
Summertime summertime sum-sum-summertime. Long days. Sultry nights. Summer is hot. Literally. We are very aware of our bodies, and the bodies of those around us. We wear <a href=” lighter clothes. We wear sunglasses and/or glamorous hats. Love is in the air, or at least lust. Naturally, I asked myself, âÃÂÃÂWhat do superheroes do about…
My friend Paul Guinan put an interesting post up on his Facebook page yesterday. It sparked an equally interesting discussion, and, evidently, you can have discussions on Facebook that are not all salvos of rants. Paul wrote: “I grew up with Superman being a character of pure good. Every once in a while something like…
For rent: Secret laboratory. Ideal for mad scientists, superheroes and their posses. Now, about those posses: time was when superheroes operated pretty much alone, or with a sidekick, who could be anyone from the original Green Lantern’s cab driving Doiby Dickles to Batman’s intrepid though preadolescent Robin. Oh, there were other continuing characters in your…
Nope. This is not an old guy rant about how you-all young’uns are ignoring comic books because you’re too busy enjoying the movies and teevee shows being made out of those same comic books. I’m beginning to think that if you lust for heroic fantasy, maybe the plethora of such fare in our theaters and…
ComicMix Quick Picks: Who’s faster, Superman or the Flash?
As we are assuredly living in the golden age of superhero TV, it was a clean jab to the jaw to watch the trailer for the forthcoming CBS Supergirl show. In only six and one-half minutes, my optimism – once high and mighty – was sucker-punched and left waning in the gutter. Flash and Arrow…
Okay you’ve got them, now what are you going to do with them? By “them” I mean super villains. So it shouldn’t be much of a leap to conclude that “you” means super heroes. Certainly a lot less than a
My editor suggested, if I was having trouble coming up with ideas about what to write, that I note that the new CBS prime-time show, Supergirl, will air at eight o’clock Eastern time on Mondays when it starts this fall… up against Gotham on Fox. The assumption, when he mentioned this to me last week,…
My beloved Chicago Bears are a team in turmoil. After installing a new head coach roughly two seasons ago, the team has simply never gelled since. This being in spite of fielding a team that is built beautifully on paper. Suffice to say as a fan, I’m left crushed and crestfallen. But whereas die-hard football…
