Invincible is going to be a father, while Monster Girl tries to come to terms with the years she spent in an alternate dimension and what they’ve done to her relationship. Will an old foe make both their worries moot? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Author: Matthew Peterson
Matthew Peterson
Once upon a time, there was a young nerd from the Midwest, who loved Matter-Eater Lad and the McKenzie Brothers... If pop culture were a maze, Matthew would be the Minotaur at its center. Were it a mall, he'd be the Food Court. Were it a parking lot, he’d be the distant Cart Corral where the weird kids gather to smoke, but that’s not important right now... Matthew enjoys body surfing (so long as the bodies are fresh), writing in the third person, and dark-eyed women. Amongst his weaponry are such diverse elements as: Fear! Surprise! Ruthless efficiency! An almost fanatical devotion to pop culture! And a nice red uniform.
Over the years, the Time Lord known as The Doctor has traveled with a great many companions, from his own grand-daughter to a gobby Australian to (depending on what you consider to be official) a shape-shifting space-penguin. The interactions have ranged from paternal to buddy-buddy and back, with a rare few clearly romantical in nature. Sometimes the characters overshadow the work (like Clara), sometimes the work overshadows them (like poor Turlough) and sometimes they just flat don’t work at ALL (the android known as Khamelion.) But in each and every case, the travel-mates chosen bring out new sides of our…
The Crime Syndicate has disposed of the Justice League, and is now poised to take over the entire world. The only loose thread comes in the form of a man trained by the Batman himself, a man now hunted… Can even Nightwing prevail against his mentor’s evil counterpart? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
With all the talk about Gal Gadot being cast as Wonder Woman in the upcoming ‘Man Of Steel’ sequel, people are abuzz wondering if this will be the film that starts the buildup to an official Justice League of America movie. For my money, if you REALLY want to do JLA right, you need to forget about all that “Darkseid invasion” folderal, and have the most powerful heroes in the world go medieval on a giant echinoderm. It’s what Chris Knight would call ‘a moral imperative!’ Your Major Spoilers (retro) review awaits!
When I first discovered comics, the Big Two companies were coming out of a creative and financial doldrums, while several old-school purveyors of four-color fiction were either failings or on the way out. The black-and-white boom was in its infancy, but eventually I came to recognize the work of two artists that I loved above all others, one of whom worked primarily at DC (George Perez) and another at Marvel (John Byrne.) The work of either man could get me to pick up a title sight unseen, and I have a stack of some pretty crap comics to prove it. …
The process of creating our daily query is a complex and diverse one, with some questions leaping from my head like Athena, while others require hours of massaging and tortured think-amajigs to achieve even a semblance of coherence. (This one might had needed another seventeen minutes or so, now that I think of it.) Once in a while, though, we have to consider one of the great posers that face us a species, one of the truly BIG questions that vex generations of our greatest scholars… But, since we’ve already done “Ginger vs. Mary Ann”, we’ll go another direction. The…
A recent social media post reminded me of the existence of a minor DC character named Wild Dog, who was once heavily promoted to be the future of superheroics in the faraway year of 1987. Though the character had a lot going for him, with some excellent art and a very timely premise, he dropped off the radar not long afterwards, with his only post-Reagan-era appearance that I am aware of during the massive battle sequence in Infinite Crisis. Still, the gun-wielding hero from the Quad Cities isn’t the only “Next Big Thing” to not live up to the hype,…
Here at Stately Spoilers Manor East (known also as “my divan”), I have one rule about comics: “Let’s read some!” When I heard that the WWE would be making another run at comic book incarnations of their heels and faces and tweeners (OH MY!), I was skeptical. But when I heard the writing would be by beloved Hall Of Famer Mick “Cactus Jack/Mankind/Dude Love” Foley, I knew this would be a series I’d have to check out. How does it stack up? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
The announcement of the casting of Wonder Woman in the ‘Man Of Steel’ sequel has many contingents of the intarwebz up in arms. The most fascinating argument against the inclusion of the Amazing Amazon is the one that opines that the character is too famous to be just a “guest-star” in somebody else’s movie (even though we have zero information on her role in the film.) My hope for the movie is that Diana and Bruce serve as counterpoints to Superman (like the cartoon angel/devil on Woody Woodpecker’s shoulders) telling us more about each character by contrasting him/her to the…
I’ve been a fan of the Defenders all the way back to the days when The Hulk hung out at Doctor Strange’s Sanctorum and ate nothing but beans, while Norrin Radd hovered and looked melancholy. One thing I’ve learned since that series ended is that the Defenders will continue to rise over and over again, and probably get cancelled within 15 issues. Still, if I had a choice of new teams every couple of years and no Defenders at all, I’ll just have to soldier on and deal with repeated heartbreak when things go sour. It’s kind of like BEING…
It’s been a couple of weeks since the epic 50th anniversary ‘Doctor Who’ story aired, and I’ve spent an awful lot of time mulling it over in my head, as well as interacting with my fellow nerds to see if others enjoyed it as much as I did. The return to greatness after an inconsistent season made me happy, and gives me hope that the new era of ‘Who’ could be a real winner. With that milestone out of the way, though, my nerdly high hopes turn towards J.J. Abrams upcoming ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ (which I hope has a…
One of the biggest advantages of my weekend comic store job is exposure to comics that most fans have only vaguely heard of, but are brilliant nonetheless. When I was growing up, Archie Comics were mostly known for their digest-sized collections, available at grocery counters everywhere. These days, Archie is in a period of expansion, changing their characters, trying different genres and even reviving their once-proud super-hero line. Of course, if you know your obscure comics history, you might recall that this isn’t the first time Archie has diversified their offerings for a new comic audience. Your Major Spoilers (retro)…
No matter how successful the newest iteration of Star Trek is, there will always be a part of me that compares them to the original Trek crew. Certainly there are talented actors on Abrams’ V.2 Trek project, able to make the characters their own, but there may never be an ensemble that affects me the way the 1966 cast could. Of course, it should be noted that I am a sucker for a good “team”, whether it be Ted Mosby and his pals or the cruelly and criminally underrated Justice League Detroit squad of my youth, and breaking down the…