It’s been many years since I was a heavy-duty ‘Magic: The Gathering’ kinda guy, but Rodrigo’s discussion of the upcoming MTG set, ‘Khans of Tarkir’ (way-cool name, by the way), has me interested in the updated mechanics in play, perhaps even enough to actually buy some cards again. Working in a comic store, I’ve never actually been away from the Magic crowd, and it’s always interesting to see the new stuff that agglomerates with each additional set, and as a guy who loves time-travel and time-manipulation abilities, there’s interesting stuff across the board in Khans, which leads to today’s pre-shuffled…
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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast – It’s the San Diego Comic Con Post Show! Plus reviews of Batman, Hercules, and the Mighty Avengers.
It’s still a few days before Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy arrives in theaters which is why Stephen finally sits down with the latest LEGO Marvel Superheroes set.
The strategy for drafting is similar to picking teams for kickball. The general rule is that you pick the best player you can one at a time, the other captain then gets to pick the next best and so on and so forth.
There’s a furry, loud-mouthed talking member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, and he’s a raccoon!! His name is Rocket Raccoon. Is he a raccoon or an alien that looks like a raccoon! Let’s travel to space and learn together! So sit back and enjoy as Ashley and Jason begin their geek history lesson. You might learn something. Enter your Mind University!
There are a great many talented men and women who have made their mark in the decades since somebody had the idea to staple newsprint pages together and call it a funny book. Being an amateur comics historian and general blowhard, I have opinions on a lot of them: Neal Adams is amazing, the late Alex Schomburg was an unsung genius, and far too few people know the wonderful line work of Ramona Fradon. But, at this very moment, if you were to ask me who’s the best, I’d drag out some Silver Age Action Comics and show you the…
It’s still a few weeks before Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy arrives in theaters which is why Stephen finally sits down with the latest LEGO Marvel Superheroes set, LEGO #76019 – Starblaster Showdown.
This week I have a great time chatting with Ruben Romero, one of the creators of The Agency, a great comic book about an orphan who catches the attention of an international organization dealing with magic. It’s a very professional independent comic with great story and art, and you can find out more by going to thinkalikeproductions.com! The first issue should soon be available on Comixology, with the second on its way in the near future! Ruben talks about making the series come alive with co-creators Bethany Romero, Roger Cabrera, Ross Hughes and Eric Koda, among other things. Don’t miss…
As San Diego Comic-Con 2014 winds down, we all have a chance to look back (thanks to the stellar coverage by Stephen and Zach) at a pretty impressive year of panels, reveals and general mishegas, and some things that I’m pretty excited about. (Evil Dead on TV? Locke & Key as a movie trilogy? I’m intrigued…) A few of my imaginary internet friends have been reporting to me from the convention floor, making me almost-but-kinda-not-at-the-same-time wish I was there, and reminding me of the whirlwind madness of my own last convention experience at Nerdtacular ’14. There’s a real joy to…
The pitfalls of fiction are many, but one of the most common that I run into is misunderstanding the bond of friendship with the bond of romantic entanglement. If you’ve ever been to TV Tropes or any given comments section, you know that people have their own preferred romances, and the battle between the Freddie/Carly ‘shippers and the Freddie/Sam ‘shippers is often a vicious and relentless one. For my part, when I had to watch ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ back in my television master control operator days, I enjoyed the moments where the producers would intentionally give us ambiguous moments designed…
In this installment of Critical Hit – A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: Welcome back to the Summer Canopy! NOTE: Images for this episode will appear next week. NOTE: Level 14 character sheets are now available at members.majorspoilers.com and the Critical Hit Logo T-Shirts are indeed at SlashLoot.com
It’s Finally Friday! Join Major Spoilers EIC, Stephen Schleicher as he kicks back, enjoys a drink and talks with YOU about the week that was.
One of my recent bouts of internet dumpster-diving (really the only definition for what I do in the weird side-streets and cul-de-sacs of online industry) have reminded me of another lost treasure of my youth: Starsky & Hutch. Odds are that, if Faithful Spoilerites remember it at all, they remember it as the subject of a deadly dull Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller meta-irony re-imagining a few years ago, but for a time, it was the cutting edge of buddy cop action/comedy/adventure. Indeed, since my brains work in a manner that I can only describe as “diagonally”, that reminiscence led me to…