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GenCon 2008 Photo Parade
August 14th-17th, 2008, the Indiana Convention Center played host once again to GenCon, the largest consumer hobby game convention in North America. Despite all those awkward qualifiers, tens of thousands of gamers, gamers’ widows, cosplayers, gawkers, obligatory Stormtroopers, and local hooligans rendezvous each year in downtown Indianapolis for a four-day nonstop marathon of live [...]
This is me reviewing the filmic revamp of “Wanted”.
Readers of the original Wanted — a six-issue 2003-2004 Top Cow miniseries now available in trade paperback or hardcover — have spent months suspecting the film version would be DOA solely because the major characters’ profession has been changed from super-villain to assassin. Movie critics unfamiliar with the source material have labeled it “unintelligible” and [...]
John Cassaday Begins Drawing “Planetary” #27
Fans of DC Comics’ Wildstorm division may see a once-hypothetical conclusion become reality in this lifetime after all.
Warren Ellis, writer/co-creator of the long-running superhero meta-series Planetary stunned the industry with the following announcement today via his “Bad Signal” mailing list:
“…late last night, Wildstorm informed me that [artist/co-creator] John Cassaday has commenced drawing PLANETARY [...]
The Amazing Colossal Bear: a Review of “Kung Fu Panda” at the IMAX
“But you’re a big, fat, panda!”
“No. I’m the big, fat panda.”
Out of context, that pithy exchange between good panda and evil snow leopard may seem to lend credence to my initial snap judgment — based on the typically superficial trailers — that Kung Fu Panda would be ninety minutes of fat jokes, tasteless humor, toy [...]
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”: a Review
It’s a tribute to the creators’ self-control that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does not once spout the phrase, “I’m gettin’ too old for this.” (It’s Spoiler Free!)
Paravel Universe: a Review of “Prince Caspian”
It’s next to impossible to watch the trailers for Prince Caspian without thinking of Middle-Earth and wishing J. R. R. Tolkien had prolonged the magic by padding The Lord of the Rings into a lifelong seventy-volume series.
