In my opinion, 2012 was the biggest year for superhero movies since 1978, the year the original Christopher Reeves Superman was released. 2012 had the conclusion of a beloved franchise (The Dark Knight Rises), the start up of another (The Avengers), and the reboot of a third (The Amazing Spider-Man). Oh, and it also featured … Continue reading »
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Snoop Dogg + Superhero=Snooperhero?
As it turns out, geeks with synthesizers in their garage aren’t the only people who create music about superheroes–hip-hop artists do it too. Take Jay-Z’s hit Kingdom Come for example. In one song, HOV mentions Superman, Flash Gordon, Peter Parker, and calls himself the “Bruce Wayne of the Game.” When it comes to obsessing over … Continue reading »
A Comic With Limitless Potential: Dial H
This year DC has made the surprising choice to revive one of its campiest comics: Dial H for Hero, now shortened to the more enigmatic Dial H. The concept is simple: if there’s a need for a hero, you step into a phonebooth, dial h, and gain superpowers. The catch is, the magic phonebooth doesn’t … Continue reading »
DC’s Most Promising New Comic: Earth 2
Earth 2 answers the question that’s been nagging at me ever since DC’s New 52 reboot: whatever happened to the JSA? As it turns out, they have been living in a parallel world, and they are not yet a team. Sound confusing? It is. In the old DC Universe, the JSA were thought of as … Continue reading »
Professor Xavier: Prophet or Propagandist?
It’s fair to say that every X-Men fan has noticed that Charles Xavier–Professor X as he’s sometimes known–is a little creepy. Maybe it’s his bald and reflective pate, or it’s his arched and immaculately coiffed eyebrows, or maybe it’s something else. But what is this “something else,” this odd and hard to define quality that … Continue reading »
Comic Book Pick of the Day: Justice League International Issue 8
Title: Justice League International, issue 8 (2012) Writer: Dan Jurgens Penciler: Aaron Lopresti It seems to me the real mission statement of the Justice League International is to save every B-list DC superhero from obscurity. That they save lives in the process is an added bonus. Usually, every superhero team contains one or two bizarre, … Continue reading »
When Superheroes Go Supernatural…
Oftentimes, when I can tell comic book companies are cashing in on trends, it seems toxic to me. Comics should be art, right? But when comics are rebooted or reimagined to better suit the public’s current fixation, it drags the whole medium down. That’s why I was more than a little annoyed when a few … Continue reading »
Superhero Songs: The Flaming Lips Vs. Three Doors Down
Comic books and pop music go hand in hand: both are about mass-producing as much material as possible, often littering the world with forgettable pieces of art. As it so happens, sometimes the two fuse together and create funky hybrids: songs about superheroes. Today, I’d like to look back on two of them: “Waiting For … Continue reading »
Top Five Weirdest Marvel Stories of the Past Decade: #3 Ultimatum
#3: Ultimatum Every once in a while in comics by DC or Marvel, writers will get it in their heads that they need to clean house, so to speak, by getting rid of characters who left a mess in their respective books. This purging might also be to deflect the annoying questions from fanboys like … Continue reading »
X-Men Versus Cthulu? X-Men: Golgotha Graphic Novel Review
In the five-part series X-Men: Golgotha, the team of mutants collide with Cthulu–well not Cthulu exactly, but the monstrous villain named Golgotha resembles the Cthulu so closely Marvel should owe H.P. Lovecraft’s heirs some money. If you’ve never been initiated into H.P. Lovecraft’s weird and gloomy fiction, the Cthulu is the author’s most famous creation. … Continue reading »
