In this installment of The Want List, a Batman bike helmet, geeky aprons, and a rubber band machine gun.
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While I’m not a big theatre guy, I was entertained (and perhaps confused) to find that classic Troma monster/superhero flick ‘The Toxic Avenger’ has been given the musical treatment. Sure, Toxie is uniquely suited to busting through genre/media bounds (as you might recall, he even had a kiddie cartoon back in the day), but the knowledge that someone composed a song entitled “Who Will Save New Jersey?” in order to make the adventures of a man in a rubber mask sufficiently operatic soothes my worries about the nature of the universe. (Absurdity, after all, is a driving force of reality.) …
Yesterday’s inquiry regarding the Marvel Universe was limited to that world for two important reasons: Superman and Batman. It seems to be very difficult for anyone to separate the cult of personality around the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel from their actual effectiveness as super-dupers, and their historical importance can overpower any team they’re on. (See Brad Meltzer’s 2006 JLA revamp.) Besides, under DC’s current editorial direction, it seems every book will eventually become a title featuring one or both of them anyway. Even so, your humble MS-QOTD doesn’t like to play favorites, and there are any number…
In this installment of Critical Hit: A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: From the mountain to the jungle, the journey is always an adventure. This episode is sponsored by Fantasy Coin HQ NOTE: You can download this week’s Critical Hit song for FREE at members.majorspoilers.com NOTE: Level 14 character sheets are now available at members.majorspoilers.com and the Critical Hit Logo T-Shirts are indeed at SlashLoot.com
The Superior Spider-Man reaches its conclusion and more as Jason Reads all the Marvel Now Comics that were published this week.
At any given point, if I was pressed to tell you who my favorite superhuman of all time was, you might get one of half a dozen answers, but if you ask me my favorite super-team, there’s only two responses: The Legion and The Defenders. With membership including the most physically powerful creature on Earth, the king of Atlantis, the universe’s top sorcerer, a herald of Galactus, a goddess, a living gargoyle and a host of equally notable types (including Marvel’s first try at Batman, the irascible Nighthawk, who will always be a step up from Moon Knight in my…
This week, pretend time becomes real time for a bunch of actors in Bryan Hitch’s Real Heroes #1 from Image Comics.
The story of Ferris Bueller is one of the great cautionary tales of the 1980s, a reminder that even the most mundane of days can be made into something memorable if you just put in the effort, torture a poor school principal and falsify your identity as Sausage King of Chicago. Though I’m more likely to end up being a Cameron (or, to be honest, these days I’m within a few degrees of Ed Rooney), the question of what I want to do with a day where I could do anything I want. I suppose taking a nap, going to…
It’s New Comic Book Day! What should you pick up this week? The Major Spoilers Staff runs down the titles they are most looking forward to this week.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Ted Adams talks 15 years of IDW Publishing, Titanfall falls into the Major Spoilers HQ, Thor and Superman fight it out, Legends of Red Sonja #5, The Red Panda, and Sex Criminals!
In the last several years, I’ve noticed a trend that is starting to wear on me. It’s the practice of advertising movies during the commercials of other products.
In this installment of The Want List, a bit of Pulp Fiction ephemera, a Halo Energy Sword, and good news for D&D fans.
Recently, I’ve been doing a bit of idle research on villainy, and the various motivations given for lives of deceit and chicanery. They say that the best villains are the hero of their own story, but the *reasons* they do what they do are wildly varied: Magneto fights against humans to protect/avenge his mutant people, Cruella De Vil’s vanity causes her to want a beautiful Dalmatian-skin coat, The Shredder has some sort of blood feud with Hamato Yoshi (and he kind of likes to see Krang fail.) Perhaps my favorite motivation for antisocial behavior is that of Marvin The Martian,…
This morning, I awoke feeling like I had a head full of bees and every joint in my body was composed of a mass of broken glass too large for the socket or skin around it. I also had an urge to lie in bed all day and read the Volume 4 “5 Years Later” Legion of Super-Heroes run, whose post-apocalyptic world-rebuilding, adult themes and intentionally primitive art style were prescient of many of today’s comics. (It wasn’t a 100% accurate premonition of today’s New 52, though, as it still had a lot of humor and glimmer of hope amidst…