Archive for tag: comic books
10 Crazy, Cross-Genre Pairings We’d Like to See Movies About
May 13, 2011 4:23 pm Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesYes, this started off as a joke post, but the farther we got into our list, the more we realized these would actually be really cool to see. Good job, Hollywood! Once again, you’ve taken the lead. Now take note: here are the ten unlikely cross-genre pairings we want to see next…
Read More »Marvel Studios President talks Iron Man 2 Alternate Opening
September 23, 2010 2:02 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesYou would think since I was chatting with the Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, I would offer my film resume in hopes of landing an ideal job with Marvel Studios. But it is not a blogging matter. It’s a profound, incredibly unfair advantage backed by almost 70 years of Marvel comic book material. “All [...]
Read More »Ultimate X-men #41 and Born-again Fandom
September 23, 2010 12:23 pm College Life, geeks and gamersI love starting with a generalization, because they’re mostly always true. It seems today that almost everyone reading comics has a “getting back into comics” story. It’s no secret that the Nineties weren’t the Shakespearian era of comics, and so everyone except those who collected gatefold covers got out and didn’t look back for about ten years or so. I have one such story…
Read More »Superman Today, Gone Tomorrow
September 20, 2010 10:22 am College Life, geeks and gamersIt’s not easy for me to talk about, but I’m going to take you back to a traumatic time in my life. Perhaps you’ve shared this experience. I was innocently going to the movies. It was 1998, and I had no idea what awaited me. I stood in line, carefully concealing my box of Mike [...]
Read More »Superman vs. The Hulk: Who Would Win?
June 11, 2010 2:48 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers
Continuing ourMarvel vs. DC series, we’ve decided to pit the two titans of these comic book universes. I’m talking about limitless super strength. I’m talking about nigh invincibility. Yes, fanboys and fangirls, I am talking about the Hulk versus Superman, the Irradiated One versus the Man of Steel. I am talking a battle that could potentially leave our planet in pieces, collateral damage like we’ve never beheld.
