Blackest Night: Undead List Update

The upcoming Blackest Night event looks increasingly promising, with clues and reveals about which dead people will rise as super powered zombies being revealed.  Even more names released today and they promise some very interesting stories to come indeed.

Green Lantern: First Flight

The observant out there may have noticed that I actually like Green Lantern comics and related stories.  It would seem that DC Comics, through their parent company Time Warner, are released an animated Green Lantern movie called Green Lantern: First Flight.  The trailer and behind the scenes videos can be found below the line…

Green Lantern: Blackest Night

One of my sillier hobbies is the enjoyment of comic books.  I hold they are an excellent medium which is often underrated. In recent times both DC and Marvel have had crossover events some good and some bad; Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Civil War, Dark Reign, Annihilation, Skrull Invasion, etc.  There is one event coming [...]

Characters worth looking up to

One of the greatest achievements of human evolution is the imagination and seemingly limitless creativity that we possess. The power to achieve our dreams is not nearly as impressive as being able to have those dreams to begin with.
Part of that ability is to be able to create characters that are better than the creator, [...]

Fantastic video: Transformers Universe

I grew up in the 80’s, the decade of … well, some really embarrassing things.  But one of the great things about the 80’s was, of course, The Transformers.  In 1986 or so, the Transformers Movie came out and included a fantastic fight scene between Optimus Prime and Megatron.  It seems to have been improved [...]

Batman #656: The Review

Been neglecting the comic book side of things of late so let’s see what we can do about rectifying that.  Batman #656 is an interesting setup for a storyline, introducing plot elements which promise to deliver interesting stories for a while yet – all backed up by solid art.

Green Lantern #13: The Review

For a fair while, your average comic book story was pretty dark. Maybe it started with The Dark Knight Returns, like some suggest, maybe it didn’t … really, it doesn’t really matter. Those dark stories went on for far too long, people had power armour with impractical spikes, cyborg limbs and grimaced a [...]