Category: Comics in Movies & TV

by Robert DOttavi | February 27, 2020

In 2018, it was announced that Deadpool director Tim Miller and Ultimate Spider-Man writer Brian Michael Bendis were working on a Kitty Pryde solo movie set within the Fox continuity (if such a thing exists). Following Disney's purchase of Fox, the movie was left on...

by Robert DOttavi | February 26, 2020

Oh, sweet Daredevil. How I have missed you so! Since the Netflix series abruptly concluded on November 29, 2018, the Man Without Fear has gone missing. Leading many to ask what's the deal with Daredevil? Prices for his debut comic book, Daredevil #1...

by Robert DOttavi | February 24, 2020

As far as Marvel adaptations are concerned, the Fantastic Four have been nothing short of a disaster. Horrible film after horrible film, Marvel's First Family has not been given the respect and love they really deserve. However, now that Marvel Studios owns the rights to the characters,...

by Robert DOttavi | February 21, 2020

Ah, the X-Men film franchise. Filled with such wonderful villains as Magneto, Magneto again, Apocalypse, Sebastian Shaw (?), Magneto... Again? Okay, sure. The point is, under 20th Century Fox, the X-Men's fascinating rogues gallery was done a significant disservice. Rich and terrifying antagonists like Reverend William...

by Robert DOttavi | February 21, 2020

You can't help but feel a little bad for the Inhumans. Since 2012, Marvel pushed the characters to places they never really should have been pushed to. This obsession with the characters led people to blindly announce that it is "time to invest in the Inhumans." As...

by ChargingGoat | February 14, 2020

Comics can have a strange up and down trajectory, just like any other investment.  Today's big thing could turn into a dud tomorrow.  If you have the next big character before others realize what is happening, you can get ahead of a very competitive market.  When...

by ChargingGoat | February 13, 2020

I made my declaration at the beginning of the year that I would stay away from modern comics.  So, I would like to take this time to write a blog about a modern comic that has been grabbing my attention...I know, I know.  Totally normal.  The...

by Norman Robinson | February 11, 2020

The latest info on the movie: Birds of Prey is anecdotal. I simply pulled up reservations online for the theater I attend near my house. I went on one of their movie websites to check on the status. There are currently eleven seats taken less...

by ChargingGoat | February 10, 2020

Where does the line fall between hero and villain?  We have seen Marvel and DC play with this concept when the ramifications and collateral damage come around to make a hero question their motives.  Hulk is a mindless rage monster who causes all sorts of havoc,...

by ChargingGoat | February 9, 2020

I am expecting the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to become more cosmic as time elapses.  There are only so many stories that you can tell on Earth with earthlings.  There are cosmic threats that are always coming for us, artifacts of great power ready to...