In February, Marvel Comics, with much fanfare, announced A-Force, a series starring an all-female team of Avengers. According to co-writer G. Willow Wilson, the series demonstrates Marvel’s renewed commitment “in the last couple of years…
As I said in this forum not too long ago, Supergirl’s always been a lot more fun than her more famous cousin. Certainly, CBS’ upcoming Supergirl TV show (set to air Mondays this fall, 8…
The Avengers: Age of Ultron is every bit the entertaining superhero spectacle we’ve come to expect from Marvel Studios. While not without some plot and pacing problems, it delivers a truly grand finale to “Phase…
Next year, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will pit DC Comics’ two biggest superheroes against each other. For now, the teaser trailer released last Friday (in an anticlimactic unveiling of an event already eclipsed…
Two major announcements from DC Comics and Marvel enter the arena. Only one will leave! Well, maybe both can stay. It does seem dueling news stories from comics’ Big Two seem to be the new…
The Man Without Fear is coming to Netflix, and Marvel has released his teaser trailer: What do you think? I confess (ha, see what I did there?) that I’ve never been very interested in Daredevil; unfortunately,…
The recent flurry of casting announcements from CBS’ impending Supergirl series—Melissa Benoist as the Maid of Might herself, and Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen—made me realize it’s been a while since I checked in with…
Marvel Studios* (see below) continues its string of strong, intriguing teaser trailers with this morning’s first glimpse of the reimagined Fantastic Four. Marvel has mastered the selection of dramatic, visually arresting images to pique viewers’ interest. (That shot…
Last year, Marvel Studios proved, with Guardians of the Galaxy, that it can bring comic book characters and concepts that seem weird or silly even by that genre’s already super-stretched standards to the silver screen…
The murdering lasts a full year in The Long Halloween. In this classic Batman story, spanning 13 issues, a villain known as the Holiday Killer executes someone once a month, and always on a holiday….
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