Impulse Buy Theater - Black Scorpion
Part 2 of how I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve! See Part 1 HERE. Comic books have a linear progression in their history: the emergence...
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Dec 31, 2015
Toy Review - DC Icons: Wave 2
I have to admit, DC is shipping these Icons waves at a good clip, with wave 2 already here. [Actually, wave 2 is supposed to include the...
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Dec 27, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 2-Pack
For someone that supposedly has Bat-Fatigue, you sure are buying a lot of Batman figures lately. QUIET YOU! Truth be told, I don’t hate...
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Dec 25, 2015
Toy Review - DC Icons Wave 1
Having already reviewed the Batman figure from the DC Icons line, well, it just didn’t feel right to neglect the rest of the first wave...
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Dec 20, 2015
In Defense of... Fantastic 4 (2015)
10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Damn, that’s actually DOWN from when I looked at it yesterday (it was 11% then). If you switch over to the...
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Dec 12, 2015
Binge 'n' Purge - Marvel's Jessica Jones
“Accident.” “Experiment.” And with that small exchange, that’s as close to an origin for the powers of both Jessica Jones and Luke Cage...
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Dec 1, 2015
Toy Review - NECA's 7-inch Christopher Reeve Superman
In a world with the internet…there aren’t too many surprises these days. And yeah, if I want to wax nostalgic, sure I’d say I miss it. ...
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Nov 29, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles Icons: Batman
YES! YES! YES! YES!!! DC Collectibles and its forebear DC Direct have been an emotional roller coaster for me. High quality sculpts have...
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Oct 21, 2015
Movie Review - The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?
What if…? “What if…?” can be either fun or tragic. That simple question alone brought forth a multiverse in both Marvel and DC Universes...
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Sep 27, 2015
Game Review - WizKids' Dice Masters
Remember how I was extolling the joys of the current wave of Deck-Building games? How you didn’t have to hunt for powerful...
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Apr 21, 2015
Trailer Madness!
Wow. I unplug from the internet for a couple weeks and this is what happens. New trailers for Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, Terminator...
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Mar 31, 2015
Game Review: Crisis Expansions 1 and 2 for the DC Deck Building Game
Crisis. Noun. A stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined;...
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Mar 24, 2015
Game Review - Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
First off, I guess I have to admit I’m doing this backwards…but not by much. You see, even though Upper Deck’s Legendary: A Marvel Deck...
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Mar 4, 2015
Retro Game Review - Superman (NES)
There are certain facts in life: death, taxes, a collectible drought lasting a few months followed by an unending, expensive onslaught of...
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Feb 24, 2015
Movie Review - Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
George Reeves. I know dropping this name probably spoils the ending to Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)…or does it? ...
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Feb 14, 2015
'Toon Review - Wonder Woman
Dear Warner Bros. This. This this this this this! You want to know how to make Wonder Woman work on the big screen? Take the screenplay...
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Jan 29, 2015
'Toon Review - Batman: Gotham Knight
As punishment for the rant-y nature of my Throne of Atlantis review, I made myself sit down and watch Batman: Gotham Knight. Happy now,...
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Jan 28, 2015
'Toon Review - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
So my big plan was to do all these DC Animated Movies in order. Then two things happened. First, severe bat-fatigue and the next one up...
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Jan 22, 2015
Movie Review - Superman: The Movie
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. I mean, how do you write about a classic film? What can you say that so many other critics...
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Jan 21, 2015
Toy Review - DC Collectibles' Earth 2 Superman
Okay DC Collectibles, we need to talk. Remember when I reviewed your Crime Syndicate figures and I said if you kept this up for your main...
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