Posted on April 27, 2008 by Matt
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, [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Matt
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 [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2006 by Matt
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.
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Posted on September 24, 2006 by Matt
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 [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2006 by Matt
On a definite YouTube kick at the moment, bear with it. This one is a Public Service Announcement made by DC Comic book characters Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. Keeping with their ‘Giffen-League’ characteristics, not everything goes smoothly…
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Posted on July 2, 2006 by Matt
With the recent release of the movie Superman Returns, the supposed messiah theme apparent in the character of Superman has been highlighted quite a bit. Does this theme truly exist? Is it a load of bollocks? Or is Superman really the modern Jesus?
To start with, were there messiah/saviour themes and links within [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2006 by Matt
If you proceed to see this movie, take tissues with you. You’ll be likely to have a Geek-gasm.
I think it is safe to say that Superman Returns is definitely the comic book movie of the year and quite possibly the best comic book related movie made to date. Is it a perfect movie? [...]
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