It’s time once again to turn our gaze to the octagon! Two characters enter, one…
Browsing: Jimmy Olsen
This weekend, at Kapow! in London, DC Comics co-publisher, Dan DiDio announced that the company…
A trope is a recognizable theme used in storytelling. The kidnapped princess, the final battle, the training montage, these are all tropes we have seen again and again. Usually recognition of a familiar trope is a good thing, it lets the audience know how they should feel about things and sets them up either for a satisfying conclusion or an excited twist. But what happens when a trope goes stale? When you can’t watch two hours of TV without seeing the same situation over and over, like the wriiers just emptied their cliche bladders all over the place? Some themes have suffered this fate, through excessive use now they accomplish the opposite of what the writers want, to take the viewer out of the experience. What follows is a list of tropes that I find tiresome, troubling and most of all trite.
DC has released a sneak peek of the upcoming Superman: Secret Origins #1 issue. While…
First Day on the Job Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Nooooo.…
It’s like 1938 all over again This week saw the release of The Mighty from…
The Secret Origin storyline being run within the Green Lantern issues reached its fourth part…
or, OH thank HEAVENS it is finally over! With a sigh of relief I opened…
Though this is a week late, and the review for the next episode will soon…