What is the best way to start off 2015? With new DC Comics Super Heroes LEGO of course! Stephen takes a look at the first set in the 2015 line – #76025 Green Lantern vs. Sinestro.
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This week’s Saturday movie night featured “Mister Peabody and Sherman”, a film chosen by the Widget and only tolerated by the father (that’s me, BTW) because she has been sick and because I liked the original Jay Ward cartoons as a child. It was pretty much the same Dreamworks plot (including the obligatory “emotional arc” for the characters) we’ve seen half a dozen time, but at least parts of it were funny. They at least tried to include the absurdism and terrible puns that marked the original, though, and it entertained the Widget and made her want to travel back…
This week, you’ll enjoy the return of Jeremy Haun, probably best known for his work on DC’s Constantine and Batwoman as well as the Bad Karma volume! Jeremy’s in the middle of a Kickstarter project called Dino Day Art Book. This excellent volume started out as a way for Mr. Haun to share his work with his young sons, who both love dinosaurs. Each Wednesday on his blog, Jeremy posted a new dinosaur illustration. Now, the entire year’s artwork is being collected into a hardcover volume you can only obtain by supporting this project. To contribute, be sure to go…
Much has been made of the ‘Axis’ revelations that Wanda and Pietro are not related to Magneto after all (a development that is itself a retconned plot point.) Some say that it’s the end of the Marvel Universe as we know it, that the comics we love (and we know you do too) are now merely afterthoughts to support the more lucrative land of movies and merchandising. Rumors are even ricocheting about that Marvel is cancelling Fantastic Four specifically to spite the makers of the FF movie, and will be doing the same with X-Men, in order to not provide…
I am the one who knocks, but you dress better. Hot Toys is teasing us with their bases as Scooby and the gang unmask minifigs! Find out what that means on a new Want List!
In this installment of Critical Hit – A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: The party travels to Thundertree and meet plant monsters and zombies. Visit the Major Spoilers store for Critical Hit and Major Spoilers merchandise!
It’s Finally Friday! Join Major Spoilers EIC, Stephen Schleicher, and Zach Woolf as they kick back, enjoy a drink and talk with YOU about the week that was.
The Want List is back with another unboxing. This time it is the DC Collectibles 1:1 Scale Green Lantern Battery and Ring prop replica!
This week we travel to Rome and learn about… something, as we examine The Great Beauty.
The new Star Wars #1 came out this week (Major Spoilers’ own Chris Wilson weighs in here), and many fans have expressed that the franchise returning to the Marvel Comics fold (where it originated back in 1977) somehow feels right. For many of the years that I have been enjoying and collecting comics, there has been an ongoing rivalry between the “Big Two” companies, Marvel and DC, and many people identify their stance as collector entirely by which company they prefer. Is it this that makes us want to see the big M in the corner of a Star Wars…
Top Five Books That Changed Our Lives Top Five is a show where the hosts categorize, rank, compare, and stratify everything… from cars to gadgets to people and movies. From stuff that is hot, and things that are not nearly as interesting – it’s Top Five. Time to look back and see what things influenced our lives (for good or bad) as we take a look at the top five books that changed our lives.
Matthew and Stephen take a look back and a look at Vampirella as she reaches epic issue #100 from Dynamite Entertainment. They also lay down a big challenge to all listeners that will be epic if you make it happen!
Followers of the Complete Major Spoilers Experience (or at least those who follow our Twitter hijinks) were privy to a discussion this week about which members of the Star Trek crew represented which members of the Major Spoilers crew. (I still say Stephen is Sisko, Rodrigo is Dax, I’m Kira and Zach is Doctor Bashir, but that’s my DS9 bias showing.) It was interesting to see how our own self-images compared to our public perceptions, but also to see how people categorize the likes of Doctor McCoy and the utterly amazing Montgomery Scott, which leads us to today’s future-shock query……
Certain characters are recognized by everyone as representing a sea-change. Superman inspired the creation of the entire superhero genre, Batman is the source of an abundance of recurring hero tropes, Spider-Man inspired a realm of characters with human failings and personalities. But what of those characters who DON’T get the same recognition for their place in history? Welcome to Ten Things!