Sunday, 28 February 2016

4 issue Test #22 - Jughead


In the latest title to enter the Archie reboot, Archie’s pal, Jughead Jones takes a title role. Given how enjoyable I’ve found Archie, I decided to take a look at this one. Much like last time, I’m not going to review covers because there are tonnes of them and I will riff on the side-stories at the end after the scores. I won’t be scoring them because they’re not original content and they’ve aged a bit since their original releases. With that said, let’s dig into to our favourite hamburger enthusiast in Jughead #1-4

Friday, 26 February 2016

Thursday, 25 February 2016

The Flash Season 2 Episodes 14-15 review - Escape from Earth-2/Sharkbait

As the Flash takes a 4 week break, we look at episodes 14 and 15 of the series

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

4 Issue Test #21 - Nova

No blank variant again and I can't be bothered to edit a new one, so here's a sh*tty-looking variant instead

Nova was a title I picked up on a whim, I was not initially intending to pick up his title (the same goes for Ant-Man and Uncanny Avengers btw) and Nova does not make the first impression since he’s the hothead of Ultimate Spider-man. But I’m willing to give everything a second chance, so let’s dig into Nova #1-4

Thursday, 18 February 2016

Agent Carter Season 2 Episodes 5-7 review

Sorry some of these are so short, Wednesday was a long day

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

4 issue Test #20 - All-New All-Different Avengers

For the first time in a Marvel comic, I haven't been able to find a blank variant, so I had to edit the background out, apologies if it looks sh*t like my DC ones

I suppose this is really the flagship title of the Marvel comic universe at the moment. Featuring some of the big name characters, all be it their new incarnations in some cases and written by Mark Waid, writer of two of my favourite comic series. Can this live up to that potential? Let’s take a look.

Friday, 12 February 2016

Thursday, 11 February 2016

The Flash Season 2 Episodes 12-13 review - Fast Lane/Welcome to Earth-2


And it's time to take another look at the events of the Fastest man a... well second... it's time to look at the events of the third fastest man alive in the Flash

Tuesday, 9 February 2016

4 issue Test #19 - The Astonishing Ant-man


Time I looked into another All New All Different Marvel Title. What’s that? I did one just 2 weeks ago, well get used to it, there’s plenty more on the way.

Scott Lang, AKA Ant-man, former criminal trying to find right in the eyes of the world, and particularly his daughter, since she was the reason he resorted to crime in the first place. She became a superhero briefly, and also died and came back to life, just like him… Yeah, it’s comic books. What’s in store for our hero now? Let’s take a look.

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Legends of Tomorrow Episodes 2-3 review - Pilot (part 2)/Blood Ties

DC Comics continues their show about time travel and immortal warriors in these two episodes of Legends of Tomorrow


Thursday, 4 February 2016

Agent Carter Season 2 Episodes 3-4 review - Better Angels/Smoke and Mirrors

Agent Carter with a terrific two episodes to open the new season, can it hold that momentum?

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

#33 - Superhero Movie


I love Superhero Movies. They’re my favourite genre of movie and it’s almost guaranteed these days that I’ll watch a Superhero Movie. (A few indie films notwithstanding) but I won’t deny that they can be formulaic. There’s plenty of clichés that come with superheroes that make the genre perfect for parody, here’s a guide of how not to do it.

Superhero Movie is another of those ‘movie movies’ that “satirises” popular movies in a particular genre. The most popular is the ‘Scary Movie’ which has spawned a fluttering of sequels. The basic formula is sadly a bunch of references with little to no effort. And whilst I’m not above making references myself




  
Epic Movie particularly has them ad-nauseam.  How bad is this one? Let’s dig in