The Law Is A Ass #458: The Human Torch Wants Just The Tax, Ma’am
If death isn’t certain in comics, what about taxes?
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Dennis O’Neil: Team-Ups!
So it’s a ball boiler inside the Manhattan office building because although I’m pretty sure air conditioning existed it did not become ubiquitous until after the war that the good ol’ US of A was sliding into. What we’re looking at is an open window on an upper floor and somehow (are we pigeons?) we…
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Dennis O’Neil: Crossing Over
There you are, somewhen on the far side of one of these bedeviling time gaps, at least four days in the future from when I’m typing this and – I don’t really know – you just might be squirming with anticipation because in a few hours or less – your hours – you’ll be watching…
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Mike Gold: Fantastic Four Is Fantastic For…?
You may have seen the trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie, due from Fox this coming August. Seeing as how you’re reading this on ComicMix, you probably have. You may be familiar with all the rumors about how Marvel is pissed off at 20th Century Fox because the movie violates, well, everything fantastic about…
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BOB INGERSOLL: The Law is A Ass #334: THE FALL OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR; THE WINTER OF MY DISCONTENT
I have no idea what happened in this comic. The trial shown in Fantastic Four v 5 # 5 started because some creatures escaped from the pocket universe created by Franklin Richards and wreaked havoc on Manhattan. A bunch of citizens upon whom havoc had been wreaked sued the Fantastic Four in a class-action suit. Had that been the…
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The Superhero Arms Race– And Chest Race, Too
Acting skill â even paired with leading-man looks and undeniable charisma â is not enough to get you cast in a big-budget spy thriller or a Marvel Comics franchise. “A decade or so ago, Stallone and Van Damme and Schwarzenegger were the action stars,” says Deborah Snyder, who produces husband Zack Snyder’s films: 300, Man…
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Our final word on Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch*
There has been a lot of hullabaloo over the casting of Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle, Fruitvale Station, The Wire, Parenthood) as Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, in the Fantastic Four movie scheduled for release in 2015. There are parts of the Internet that have predictably gone nuts. While we believe that there could be some…
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Michael Davis: Alone In My Room
The other day I was sitting in my studio at 4 AM working on a double page spread for a graphic novel I’m writing and illustrating. There was a movie playing in the background, coffee and tequila on my side table and my dog Puffy laying at my feet. The house was silent, well silent…
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REVIEW: Captain America (1990)
Shout! Factory has released a Blu-ray edition of the 1990 Captain America movie, a year after a DVD of the much-maligned film was released as a part of MGM’s Limited Edition collection. They deserve kudos for a nice, clean transfer but clarity and high definition cannot help a really weak story hampered by a low…
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Captain America’s Pulpy WWII Adventures Continue!
New Pulp Artist Francesco Francavilla (Zorro, The Black Coat) joins New Pulp Writer Ed Brubaker (Crimnal, Incognito) on Marvel Comics’ series, Captain America and Bucky starting with issue #625 in December! Cover Art: Francesco Francavilla CAPTAIN AMERICA & BUCKY #625Written by Ed Brubaker & James AsmusPencils & Cover by Francesco Francavilla• The original Human Torch guest-stars as…
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Captain America (the 1990 version)
In the wake of Batman’s success in 1989, it appeared to renew interest in movies based on comic books. One of the first, and one of the worst, was the 1990 version of Captain America. The film had actually been announced in the early 1980s from Cannon Films but in the intervening years, the studio…
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WAREHOUSE 13: Claudia’s Dark Side
We talk more with Allison Scaglotti on the rest of WAREHOUSE 13‘s third season, her reaction to the cancellation of sister SyFy show EUREKA and her character’s “dark side”. Plus Marvel continues to play coy with the resurrection of The Human Torch. The Point Radio is on the air right now – 24 hours a…
