Zack Snyder and David S. Goyer, with some help from Christopher Nolan, team up to bring their vision of a modern Superman tale, and what may possibly be the start of a DC cinematic universe. The trio all have experience in making great movies starring cape donning protagonists, so this outing should be no different. Find out if they repeat success with the big, blue boy scout after the jump! (Spoilers below).
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With the Man of Steel opening this weekend, Jason took it upon himself to read all the books DC released this week.
Superman Unchained #1 is DC’s highest profile launch since the Justice League of America debut a few months back, dovetailing perfectly with the release of the Man of Steel film. It’s got a gimmick, it’s got two high profile creators, but does Superman Unchained #1 have the substance? This Major Spoilers review tells all.
Witness The New 52 origin of The Dark Knight in “Batman: Zero Year!” Twists and turns are around every corner as Bruce Wayne takes the final steps toward his destiny! And in the backup story, learn more about how different Gotham City was at this dangerous point in time.
Aspen is celebrating its ten-year anniversary by rolling out ten new titles, each priced at $1.00. The first of these books is BubbleGun and I had the pleasure of an advanced read. Your review awaits!
Miss Fury continues her romp through time and space as she’s thrown back and forth between past, present, and future, trying to stop pesky robotic Nazis. Even as she hunts down a laundry list of targets—all people who’ve been replaced by Nazi look-a-likes—she continues to doubt her sanity and her new reality. Will she find the men who did this to her or will she continue to slip further down the rabbit hole? More after the jump!
Or – “DNA = Cosmic-Scale Grandeur…” Super-types in space? I’m sold! But can the makeshift Hypernaturals team overcome the greatest threat the Quantinuum has ever seen? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Or – “The Savage Land Is A Harsh Mistress…” Ex Nihilo’s plot to terrform the Earth into something different has borne some strange fruit, including a group of children in the Savage Land of Antarctica who don’t eat, don’t sleep, and seem to consist of an entirely novel form of life. Sad, then, that last issue, they were taken under the wing of noted geneticist and total doolally The High Evolutionary. Things just got real… Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
Or – “An Uneven Series Thus Far…” Future Wolverine traveled back in time to undo Ultron’s reign of terror by murdering Hank Pym, but created an even more crapsack world in the doing. Now, he’s once again in the timestream, but if Doctor Who has taught us anything, it’s that messing with history can be dicey business. Your Major Spoilers review awaits!
With the world’s infrastructure in tatters, a hard-scrabble poverty has set in in many places and among people who never expected they would fall to such a state. Heroes have died and deadly villains rampage. All the while Metatron, the hero of heroes, is suffering from an ill-timed existential crisis.
A former hit man for the mob, Joe Fitzgerald, promises his lover Sarah he will quit his job after he performs one last hit, to kill a rival enforcer named James. Instead, he gets much more than he bargained for when James, a demon summoner, kills him and his lover Laura. However, thanks to an angel, Joe is resurrected to take his revenge on James. He is told that he will reunite with his lover in the afterlife if he performs good deeds and dies a “righteous” death. Since killing James, Joe Fitzgerald solves supernatural problems for a price, ten…
What would Usagi Yojimbo have been like if it were one of the original titles launched by Image Comics, alongside Spawn, Savage Dragon, and Youngblood? If that question blows your mind (in a good way), then have I got the answer for you! Take a ride with the funny animals from the 1990’s that didn’t live in the sewers. And discover once and for all “Who let the dogs out?”
Father and son Smith play father and son Raige in M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi tale of survival on an abandoned and hostile future Earth. Smith movies are generally pretty good, and M. Night has, in the distant past, made good movies too. Is this a match made in the stars? (Spoilers: Not really)
Or – “Something Old, Something New…” Since the relaunch of the New 52, a lot of attention has been paid to bringing back old concepts, dressing up the old guys in hip new clothes and revamping things that haven’t quite hit the mark, but there hasn’t been a whole lot of NEW world-building in play. Gail Simone’s The Movement changed that last month with a relatively impressive debut, but will they be able to keep up the pace with #2? Your Major Spoilers review awaits!