Category: Comic Musings

All general posts relating to the comic book industry.

Marvel Announces The Temporary Sabbatical Of Wolverine

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/04/25/marvel-announces-the-death-of-wolverine

Old news, but I just came across it now. And… look, death means nothing in comics. I know this. You know this. Everyone knows this. So why do you keep falling for it?
He’ll be back in two years when it’s time to start promoting the next X-Men feature film or something.

New Flash Costume Revealed For Upcoming TV Show

Find the pictures here; http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/see-first-photo-grant-gustin-3232747

Ugh. Is it wrong for me to think the costume featured in the short-lived Flash TV show from the 1990s looks better than this thing? Looks hideous.

(2019 Update: Actually, I’d still prefer the old 90s suit. Actually looked sturdier than whatever they have on now.)

Dark Horse Comics Losing Star Wars License In 2015

http://kotaku.com/dark-horse-comics-is-losing-the-star-wars-license-shou-1493997099#

This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Disney owns Star Wars. Disney also owns Marvel. So why renew with a third party comic publisher when they have their own? One has to wonder what is going to happen when twenty years worth of Star Wars comics, though. Will they be reprinted under the Marvel banner? Or forgotten and cast aside in favor of a possible new universe?

Or does anyone really care here?

The Final Panel Of Maximum Carnage

From Spider-Man Unlimited #2, the final issue of the 12-part Maximum Carnage event that inspired a hit video game. Note the headstones as Spider-Man talks about monsters staying dead and buried.

A few years later, Norman Osborn would be brought back to life at the conclusion of the much-maligned Clone Saga.

A near decade or so later, Harry Osborn would be seen alive and well in the much reviled One More Day storyline.

Suddenly, that one quote doesn’t seem so true…

The End of Amazing And Why I’m Cool With It

So… Amazing Spider-Man is no more… here comes the Superior Spider-Man…

I guess I shouldn’t worry about spoiling the final issue since it’s been out for a while, people know about it, and are most likely complaining about it… so if you haven’t read the book… you had your chance.

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So I Saw Dark Knight Rises

Generally speaking, it’s almost on par with the previous two films in Nolan’s Bat trilogy. A near-three-hour movie might seem long, but there was never an instance where I felt like falling asleep and even the duller moments kept me interested in what was going on. Bale’s Batman still sounds like crap, but Tom Hardy did a good job with Bane, who finally got a proper cinematic treatment compared to the character’s butchering by Joel Shoemaker in Batman & Robin. And the movie’s end (won’t spoil it here) is a fitting, almost appropriate closure to the trilogy while leaving the door open for a possible return to that universe. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

So yeah. Rises was pretty damn good.