Ultimate Spider-Man #1-#3 (Nov.-Dec. 2011). Brian Michael Bendis, writer. Sara Pichelli, artist. “Should it be like this?” In Part 1, I argued that we need to get to know Miles Morales as we would get…
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono
I admit: Real Steel was not on my movie-going radar. “A movie based on ‘Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots?’” I thought. “What’s next, a movie based on ‘Battleship?’” (Little did I know…) As it turns…
Bestselling novelist Michael Chabon knows some things about superheroes. If you haven’t yet read his Pulitzer-winning The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000), I strongly recommend you do. It’s a beautiful novel (at times, heart-breakingly…
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono
Despite multiple genre connections in its credits—executive producer J.J. Abrams (Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek, et al.—you know the man), creator Jonathan Nolan (co-writer of The Prestige and The Dark Knight with his brother, Christopher), and…
With all the hoopla surrounding DC’s launch of its “New 52,” another comics relaunch taking place this month isn’t attracting much attention. One might even say it’s as though this book were flying while cloaked—but…
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono This week on The Sci-Fi Christian, we recap a summer’s worth of super hero movies.
Not unlike “the hour” of which Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, the start of another academic year “cometh, and now is” (John 4.23, KJV). Whether the first school bells near you ring…
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