For those of you whom fortune smiled upon and delivered unto you the gift of ignorance concerning the graphic novel Gotham High, turn away now. Read another of my posts. Or read anything else. A John Scalzi novel or the label on a tube of toothpaste (of the two I recommend the latter). But don't read this. You won't be the same afterward.For those of you who already knew about this Young Adult parody of...
This is an odd one to review. I should hate it on general principle, but I don’t.It is completely Woke-washed. Every checkbox is ticked. Every card in the aggrievement pack is dealt. And yet it was a surprisingly good TV show.Any show with this much Woke is invariably too busy battling strawmen, delivering sermons and demanding that everyone love it’s Mary Sue protagonist, to remember to tell a good story.The Woke laundry list is the first reason it should have failed. The...
It's live now on Bounding Into Comics. Read it there.UPDATE: The hard copies are at a different website.Arkhavencomics.com
REPOST: I have old friends over this weekend. Which has left me zero time to write today. Hope you had a good weekend.The American game studio Sucker Punch is launching a new game for the Sony Playstation 4 called Ghost of Tsushima. The story takes place on the Japanese Island of Tsushima during the Mongol Invasion. Here's the backstory, Kublai Khan decided to invade Japan and lost. Yeah, there was a little more to it than that, but it's not really...
UPDATE: They are still doing it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9W-SdYgJ0 Bounding Into Comics brought this one to my attention.The character of Taarna the Tarakian was first introduced in the movie Heavy Metal (1981). It was an anthology movie whose various stories were stitched together by an evil green ball called, the Loknar. The Loknar’s powers were whatever they needed to be so the stories could happen. Fine. It wasn't a great film.In the final segment, the Loknar lands on some random planet and turns the locals into...
I don’t run with every rumor that crosses my radar, despite the ever-hungry beast that is the need for daily content. I don’t want a reputation for being Little Doomcock. So, once in a while I pass on posting a rumor that I’m not buying into on common sense grounds and it turns out to be true. This week there have been a couple of things that I didn’t go with that turned out to be true.FIRSTThe Powerpuff ScriptI’ll start by saying I...
It's finally here!The trailer for the long hidden, soon to be Marvel's first (but hardly last) bomb; The EternalsHere it is. Look at it.LOOK AT IT!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYno8x7ES4 That.Was.Awful.It leaves the audience lost and confused. Plus, there's a Bollywood dance number!So has Disney given up on China and now it's going to snobbishly condescend to India? Not sure they are going to do that with this History Channel movie. But at least we will finally learn the Hindustani word for Baizou!Yeah,...
Gamma Males simply can’t handle success, they just aren’t designed for it. But few Gammas were so completely destroyed by hitting the big time as Fantastic Four (2015) director Josh Trank. Back in 2012, 21st Century Fox was facing a problem. The superheroes they had licensed from Marvel came with a ticking time bomb clause. If a film wasn’t in the theaters or being filmed before the clock reached zero, the license exploded, and the rights reverted back to Marvel.Up until that time, the view...
It is reasonable to assume that John Wick director's Highlander reboot just vaulted out of development hell.Henry Cavill is in. Any ideas who should play the Kurgen?
“Such a promising start.”A phrase that is up there with “if only” as the saddest of words, isn’t it?A young man that was an athlete at the top of his class and ends up in the gutter. A roaring small business that is ready for the big time, destroyed by the lawyers. A great first scene in a movie but the rest of it…Motal Kombat opens in 1619 Japan. There is an idyllic scene of medieval Japanese life. A contented wife and her son...
