DC Comics and Warner Animation have every reason to celebrate their first decade of original feature film work. Since their inception, they have explored ways of adapting classic and current storylines to expand the audience for the heroes and villains that have existed on the four-color page. In time, they have experimented with styles, looks,…
Last Friday Maddy came home from school and started binging Stranger Things 2 immediately. Here’s her thoughts about it, do you agree?
Note: I didn’t plan to read this book and have the review land on Halloween — that was purely random. But it’s nice when things work out so appropriately, isn’t it? There are books where you wonder why anyone ever thought they were a good idea — how they could possibly have come into existence….
Once upon a time, a young screenwriter managed to sell a vampire film script with the absurd title of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What no one realized at the time was that this amusing romp would evolve into a cult television series that would make stars out of the cast and turn the screenwriter into…
While Warner Animation and Warner Home Entertainment celebrate ten years of DC Comics adaptations with next month’s 30-disc set, they are also spotlighting one of their best efforts with the current release of Justice League: The New Frontier – Commemorative Edition in a steelbook. Based on Darwyn Cooke’s 2004 acclaimed miniseries, the 2008 animated adaptation…
You can’t help but watch the just-released Batman vs. Two-Face with a tear in your eye and weight in your heart. Adam West’s final performance was thankfully completed well before his untimely death in June. He goes out with some fine tributes but it’s a shame the concluding chapter of his Batman career is such…
There’s a degree to which I have to respect any film that can take a thoroughly innocuous thing and make it terrifying. Movies like Child’s Play or Nightmare on Elm Street have done this and become iconic classics partially on that basis. If you can make something spooky that people didn’t find spooky before like…
This is not a limited series. I know: I was surprised, too. But Peter Bagge’s afterword, which explains the history of Sweatshop , makes it clear that it was intended to be ongoing, and that he would have been happy to keep it running for a much longer time. That didn’t happen: Sweatshop got a…
It would be overly cynical to say that I’m never surprised, or pleasantly surprised by movies anymore. It happens fairly often that a movie I think is going to be mediocre or bad ends up being good. It’s much more rare that a movie that I’m actively rolling my eyes at while the trailer is…
So my last couple of columns have been a bit on the heavy side. This week I’m going back to telling all of you how I feel about specific comics. This week is a Kickstarter project, The Showdown Volume 2, by creator, writer and letterer Russ Lippitt, illustrator Ezequiel Pineda, colorist Nate Esteban, and editor…
I often cite the original Blade Runner as my favorite movie. I also think having one favorite anything is kind of silly so it’s always been less of a true answer as it’s been an indication of what I like. I like cyberpunk, I like hard-boiled detective stories, I like being asked to think about…
We really don’t need any more origin stories. OK, maybe if it’s integrated — a quick flashback during something else — it’s not so bad. But, please, not a whole story just to show us how the guy we already know got to the place we’ve seen him. Boooo-ring. Writers Kurt Busiek and Len Wein…
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