Over the years, the Time Lord known as The Doctor has traveled with a great many companions, from his own grand-daughter to a gobby Australian to (depending on what you consider to be official) a shape-shifting space-penguin. The interactions have ranged from paternal to buddy-buddy and back, with a rare few clearly romantical in nature. Sometimes the characters overshadow the work (like Clara), sometimes the work overshadows them (like poor Turlough) and sometimes they just flat don’t work at ALL (the android known as Khamelion.) But in each and every case, the travel-mates chosen bring out new sides of our…
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When I first discovered comics, the Big Two companies were coming out of a creative and financial doldrums, while several old-school purveyors of four-color fiction were either failings or on the way out. The black-and-white boom was in its infancy, but eventually I came to recognize the work of two artists that I loved above all others, one of whom worked primarily at DC (George Perez) and another at Marvel (John Byrne.) The work of either man could get me to pick up a title sight unseen, and I have a stack of some pretty crap comics to prove it. …
The process of creating our daily query is a complex and diverse one, with some questions leaping from my head like Athena, while others require hours of massaging and tortured think-amajigs to achieve even a semblance of coherence. (This one might had needed another seventeen minutes or so, now that I think of it.) Once in a while, though, we have to consider one of the great posers that face us a species, one of the truly BIG questions that vex generations of our greatest scholars… But, since we’ve already done “Ginger vs. Mary Ann”, we’ll go another direction. The…
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In this installment of Critical Hit: A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: The party returns to a once familiar place and discover the horrors that await! NOTE: Level 14 character sheets are now available at members.majorspoilers.com and the Critical Hit Logo T-Shirts are indeed at SlashLoot.com
This week on Zach on Film, Zach is back with another short film commentary. Zach is taking a look at a short that is sweeping around the internet PROXiMITY.
A recent social media post reminded me of the existence of a minor DC character named Wild Dog, who was once heavily promoted to be the future of superheroics in the faraway year of 1987. Though the character had a lot going for him, with some excellent art and a very timely premise, he dropped off the radar not long afterwards, with his only post-Reagan-era appearance that I am aware of during the massive battle sequence in Infinite Crisis. Still, the gun-wielding hero from the Quad Cities isn’t the only “Next Big Thing” to not live up to the hype,…
Stephen Schleicher sits down with writer Chris Roberson as the two talk in-depth about the first issue of Doc Savage from Dynamite Entertainment.
In the not to distant future… next Sunday A.D. there were two guys named Stephen and Matthew, who reviewed a comic and you’ll want to hear them talk about it in depth because this is Dueling Reviews, and the book this week is Justice League 3000! (Stinger)*
The announcement of the casting of Wonder Woman in the ‘Man Of Steel’ sequel has many contingents of the intarwebz up in arms. The most fascinating argument against the inclusion of the Amazing Amazon is the one that opines that the character is too famous to be just a “guest-star” in somebody else’s movie (even though we have zero information on her role in the film.) My hope for the movie is that Diana and Bruce serve as counterpoints to Superman (like the cartoon angel/devil on Woody Woodpecker’s shoulders) telling us more about each character by contrasting him/her to the…
IT’S NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! Major Spoilers runs down the comics we are looking forward to, and recommending, this week.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Doc Savage is back, and Peter Parker returns! Rodrigo buys a zoo. And if Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman, who is Jason Mamoa playing in the Batman vs. Superman movie?
It’s been a couple of weeks since the epic 50th anniversary ‘Doctor Who’ story aired, and I’ve spent an awful lot of time mulling it over in my head, as well as interacting with my fellow nerds to see if others enjoyed it as much as I did. The return to greatness after an inconsistent season made me happy, and gives me hope that the new era of ‘Who’ could be a real winner. With that milestone out of the way, though, my nerdly high hopes turn towards J.J. Abrams upcoming ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ (which I hope has a…
Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games. This week on Munchkin Land, it’s time to check out the last of the Chez games – Chez Cthulhu! Chez Cthulhu brings the horror of Lovecraft’s Mythos right into your apartment . . . as if the leftovers from the Pizza with Absolutely Everything weren’t bad enough. Work your job — will you be a Morgue Janitor, a Sanitarium Attendant, or a Gravedigger? Buy things to give you Slack. A Straitjacket may…