Comics

3 Reasons The Avengers Are WAY Better Than The Justice League

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

The Avengers premieres this Friday, May 4 and has already established a ton of momentum via early screener reviews. For a great spoiler-free review of The Avengers, check out MTV & IFC’s Rick Marshall on Episode #34 of our podcast from earlier this week! If you’re looking forward to this movie, it’s a great segment to check […]

The Avengers – Earth’s Silliest Heroes

by Clarence Riley

With the upcoming release of The Avengers in North America, I browsed YouTube to select these fine examples either spoofing or re-imagining Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Check out these four fantastic videos:   The Avengers “Premake” It’s hard for me to imagine what a 1950s superhero blockbuster would look like. Then I found this premake, a […]

The Oddest Avengers Story of the Decade

by Corey Pung

In pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, there was a belief held that when something or someone underwent a change, the thing they were before dies. You can’t be two things at once, right? In comic books, there’s a similar mentality that’s used for a more pragmatic purpose: to change a character, do so by first killing them. […]

Why Nobody Gives a F*ck About Superman

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Totally stole that line from the opening sequence of the video below, but I had to grab your attention somehow. Whether or not you’re a fan of comics, or specifically Superman, doesn’t really matter here – this video will entertain you. If you did live through The Death of Superman as a comic fan in […]

A Brief Guide to the Marvel Universe: The Past Decade

by Corey Pung

If you’re a casual fan of superheroes and you decide to pick up a Marvel comic featuring a character you recognize, odds are, you are going to be highly confused. If you’re like me, you grew up watching cartoons featuring the X-Men or Spider-Man, and you might think the comics will be a continuation of the world you know. What […]

Top 5 Supervillains I’d Like to See More Of

by Corey Pung

Once upon a time, supervillains were plentiful in comics, and each one could be easily recognized and described in an epithet of a few words based on their names. Hence, you hear the name “Captain Cold” and you immediately think, “Oh yeah, ice powers,” or when you hear “Gorilla Grodd,” you immediately think, “gorilla.” You […]

Superhero Origins That Have Been Inspired by Celebrities and Pop Culture

by Corey Pung

In many instances, superhero origins have been inspired by celebrities and pop culture. The comic book industry has always had an organic, symbiotic relationship with the rest of the culture; sometimes giving, sometimes taking.  Along the way, many superheroes got their look or attitude from popular actors, and many stories were loosely inspired by popular […]

What’s in a Name? The Secret Identities of Superheroes

by Corey Pung

I believe it was an in old Marvel comic featuring Stan’s Soapbox (a column Stan Lee used to answer reader’s questions) that Stan Lee revealed his technique on naming many of his characters.  He gave a lot of the original Marvel characters alliterative names for their secret identities, meaning that their first and last names […]

Is Watchmen the Greatest Comic Ever Written?

by Corey Pung

Is Watchmen the greatest comic ever written? A lot of people adamantly say so. Myself, I have some reservations about such an accolade, since I’m still partial to Jeff Smith’s Bone, enjoying it almost as much now as I did when I was 12, and I absolutely love Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman epic. Recently, I’ve been pretty enamored with Starman and […]

Why the World Needs Aquaman

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Fans of the erstwhile ABC show LOST certainly shared this irritation. So do sports fans. The irritation I speak of is that of a non-fan dispensing “expertise” and criticism toward a subject about which they have little or no knowledge. “The Milwaukee Brewers suck, dude.” “Oh yeah? Name 3 players.” or “LOST is the worst […]

The Superhero Movie that Started It All

by Corey Pung

There’s no shortage of lists out there by bloggers and fanboys saying what they think the top 10 superhero movies are. I’ve viewed a few, and I’d have to say that they’re all pretty upsetting, namely for the reason that everyone seems to have forgotten about Superman (1978), the movie that started it all*, and […]

DC Comics institutes strict NO Underwear Policy

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Last month, DC Comics unveiled plans for a line-wide relaunch of all of its comic book characters. All current running titles will end this summer and 52 new books will debut later this year starting with Justice League in late August. DC feared that some of their flagship characters were outdated, and wanted to take […]

One of the best modern comic book covers ever

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

The Marvel comic character Deadpool can’t die. He is a genetically altered mercenary for hire and has an amplified version of Wolverine’s healing factor. He’s kinda like Kenny from South Park. Recently, Wade Wilson (Deadpool) decided he has had enough of this world (his “best friends” hate him, the X-Men won’t take him, The Avengers […]

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