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Super Movie Monday – The Iron Giant, Part 1
This is the second run I’ve taken at this film, mainly because my DVD doesn’t play nicely with the drives in my computer. But having made some hardware and software upgrades recently, I was finally able to eke out some … Continue reading
Out of the Vault: A Distant Soil
I talk a lot about the explosion of innovation in the comics of the mid-1980’s, because it’s worth talking about. But it’s also worth remembering that the explosion couldn’t have happened if there hadn’t been pioneers preparing the way. For … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Echo of Futurepast
Once again visiting the 1980’s, just because the decade was such an exciting time to be a comics reader (or arguably a comics creator). The big two comics companies had emerged from the chaos of the late 70’s with a … Continue reading
Super Movie Monday – Kick Ass, Part 2
Sorry for the late update; I’ve been having a lot of trouble accessing the site to make updates. Also sorry about how by-the-numbers the first part of the recap was. I’ll try to make this week’s more interesting. So the … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Marvel Team-Up #74
It may be a little difficult to believe now, when Marvel superheroes dominate the box-office and permeate popular culture, but there was a time in the 70’s when Marvel was desperately trying to build a wider awareness of its characters … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Shade, the Changing Man (1990)
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, DC tried to capitalize on the success of Alan Moore’s reinterpretation of Swamp Thing by bringing on other British writers and giving them other obscure cancelled characters to work their magic on, with … Continue reading
