This week’s Major Spoilers podcast featured a review of Archie #2, which nearly led to the ever-repeating comic-reading question, ‘Betty or Veronica?’ But we no longer live in such a binary society (and everybody knows the answer is and will always be “Betty”.) When I was a young’n, we didn’t argue about the ladies of Riverdale anyway, but instead the denizens of Titans Tower. Some liked the girl-next-door approachability of Wonder Girl, others the strange otherworldly proto-Gothiness of Raven, still others the expressive and passionate Starfire. Some were impressed by Cyborg’s physique, and there’s nothing wrong with that either, which…
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We are coming to you early this week… kinda, as we take a look at the brand new Vampirella #13 from Dynamite Entertainment.
IT’S NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! Honestly, Wednesday may be our favorite day of the week, because it means we get to check in again with our favorite characters and titles. There are so many options for you to choose from, and it can be intimidating. The staff at Major Spoilers has collected its list of books they are looking forward to this week to help you in your comic book selection.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Superheroes are fit, and there’s no reason why we can’t find an approach for everyone to lead a healthy lifestyle. Plus Archie #2, Invader Zim #2, Descender #6 and A-Force #3 get reviewed. Also, some Star Wars news from D23.
Each week Major Spoilers receives hundreds of press releases from companies announcing their latest movie on Blu-ray and/or DVD. For the last four years, the Major Spoilers HQ has weened away from physical discs for music and movies in favor of a massive networked drive that holds everything, and is readily available to all media players on the network. As i start to give away and sell old DVDs and Blu-ray discs I wonder how many of our Spoilerites still buy discs. VOTE! [poll id=”401″]
We return to Sentinels of the Multiverse with the Shattered Timelines expansion!
Mason continues building Spider-Man LEGO sets this week with the Doc Ock Truck Heist.
In many ways, they hold the same relative position in their universes: Fan and creator-beloved super-team, filled with unusual and unlikely heroes, never quite first-tier material but always heroic just the same, with multiple relaunches since their salad days. Born of the 1960s, the heroes of the Doom Patrol prefigured the X-Men’s “freaks trapped in a world they never made” gimmick, and introduced many key figures in the DC Universe: Beast Boy of the Teen Titans, Robotman, and the wonderfully absurd Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. Alpha Flight’s heyday came two decades later in the 1980s, thanks to superstar artist John Byrne, giving…
Most entry-level nerds known a little about Doctor Who. Some can quote chapter and verse, knowing about Tennant and Baker and Smith and Capaldi and the other Baker. But sometimes, in time-travel, things can get weird. Welcome to Ten Things!
Today, Major Spoilers celebrates Doctor Who Day! As a comic-book fan, I come from a world of massive inter-company crossover madness, so I’m always fascinated by multiple Doctor time-travel stories. As such, I find it a little fascinating that the majority of those stories tend to feature three Doctors at a time. The 10th Anniversary Doctor Who crossover, ‘The Three Doctors’ makes an obvious example, but the 20th anniversary special, ‘The Five Doctors,’ also featured three Doctors (discounting stock footage of the Fourth and a new actor in the role of the First.) The same is true of the 50th…
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For many across the country it is the first week of school, the opening of Straight Outta Compton, and the four month countdown to Star Wars: The Force Awakens has begun. For those who have been slaving away in the salt mines all week, the only thing that matters is that it is Finally Friday.
This week we travel back to the halcyon days of the early ’90s and see how it all went down in the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton.
Over the years, there has been much debate about which girlfriend is best for our comic heroes. Lois or Lana? Silver St. Cloud or Selina Kyle? Betty or Veronica? But for all this discussion of paramours, one major hero seems to get short shrift: The amazing amazon herself, Wonder Woman. Given that Diana is traditionally focused on her mission (and/or heavy bondage, if you get back to her original creator) and not the question of the perfect mate, she hasn’t had the parade of partners that Batman or Spider-Man have had. (‘Course, her one major boyfriend/love interest has himself been…