Girls like superheroes. I can prove it, because a major media division has done the market research for me. You can learn a lot about what people think of you by what they try to sell you. I don’t mean this personally. It’s not like some guy you meet at a conference who sizes you…
With Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season One hitting home video on September 9, one of the bonus features was made available for viewing. Checkout the gag reel: [youtube Synopsis: The mind-blowing saga that began in Marvel’s The Avengers continues in ABC’s action-packed series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — The Complete First Season. In the wake of The…
There is a bottomless pit and you have fallen into it and you plunge ever downward and you despair of ever seeing the light again… What we’re talking about, here, is the light that issues from your television screen when you’re watching a superhero show. Well, be at peace. Things aren’t so bad. It’s true…
Both prime time comic-book based television series had their season finales this week, a day or two after I write this, and so any commentary on them might be premature. I mean, maybe some humungous game changer is in the offing, some gobsmacking surprise that will leave us gasping for breath, numbed and awed by…
To the best of my knowledge, it was only done once before, and that was in 1912, when audiences were treated to a simultaneous telling of one story in two media, film and print. What Happened to Mary (a statement, not a question) was a serialized movie, the kind that was shown in sections, or…
If you were part of the audiences that drove Captain America: The Winter Soldier to a record breaking opening weekend, you’re probably asking how is this going to affect Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Marvel has provided us with more teasers… Nothing will ever be the same for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. following the jaw dropping…
So there it was, that kind of news item. We might once have seen something like it – a second cousin? – in the comics fanzines hobbyists published now. I find stuff like it virtually every day in Yahoo’s news section. This particular item speculated that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is, as you must…
Closing them on my desktop so you can open them on yours. Here we go: Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name: What a cheap ripoff. I Am So Very Tired: I am tired, not of arguing in favour of equality, diversity and tolerance, but of having to explain, over and over and over again, why…
We’re not always aces when it comes to accurate prophecy, we comic book pundits, though we shouldn’t hang our collective head too far down because prophecy doesn’t seem to be anybody’s strong point. Anyway, almost eight years ago, in a precursor of this weekly blather, when I was younger and less evolved – I still…
Hey there, true believer, when you book to the multiplex to see the new Thor flick, you won’t be seeing just a movie, or even just a superhero movie – you’ll be seeing a Marvel movie! And you’ll know it almost from the moment the feature begins to unreel. How? Easy! The word MARVEL will…
Sometimes writing this type of column requires the skills of an experienced curmudgeon – which, lucky for me, is how I got the job. But only a child with a weak bladder pisses over everything he likes, and I am not a child. I am an adult. With a weak bladder, but hey, I’m staring…
OK, honest confession time. The geek blogger extraordinaire for Chicago’s newspaper Red Eye, Elliot Serrano, posted on his Facebook page that there were three things he knew to be facts: Schroedinger’s cat was dead. There’s no air-holes in the box. Superman never kills. For any reason. The End. Batman would lose in a fight to…
