Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (28 August 2013) at Captain Marvel #15 and New Avengers #9 (both Marvel) tie into Infinity, Image brings back Lazarus and Sex, and the …
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Aug 29 2013
Graphic Bits Reviews: Justice League #23, Batman Inc Special #1 and Batman/Superman #3
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (28 August 2013) at DC Comics, it’s a conclusion of sorts to the “Trinity War” in Justice League #23, while Batman Incorporated Special #1 …
Aug 27 2013
Blu-ray Review: Iron Man 3
Marvel’s Phase Two launch title hits DVD and Blu-ray, and it is one of his most stylish adventures on the grandest scale. “Things haven’t been the same since New York,” confesses Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) to a stressed Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). He is of course talking about his intergalactic battle alongside friends in …
Aug 27 2013
Film Review: RED 2
This follow-up maintains the spirit and most of the original cast for a sequel that is keen to bring the fun. Although based on the limited comic series RED, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner, Robert Schwentke’s 2010 action film greatly expanded the plot and gave the ensemble cast a lot more humour to …
Aug 21 2013
Film Review: Marvel One-Shot – Agent Carter
Marvel gets more ambitious with their one-shot films, expanding their cinematic universe a little further around a strong female protagonist. Ever since The Consultant, the 2011 direct-to-video film that appeared on the Thor DVD and Blu-ray, the Marvel One-Shot films have served as fun linking segments between the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With …
Aug 15 2013
Film Review: Kick-Ass 2
Based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic of the same name, this sequel goes to some dark places. The original Kick-Ass had a unique development history, with the film rights sold off before the first issue had even been published. Parallel processes worked to bring the eight-chapter comic book and more traditionally structured …
Aug 15 2013
Graphic Bits Reviews: Batman #23, East of West #5, JLA #7 and Saga #13
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (14 August 2013), “Zero Year” continues in Batman #23, and it’s the Trinity War in Justice League of America #7. Then things get even …
Aug 15 2013
Review: Infinity #1
This is the big Marvel event of the year, the one that follows the other big events and promises to change everything – at least until the event after that one. Kind of infinite, isn’t it? Epic crossovers and events are a fact of life in the comic book world. We could complain about the …
Aug 09 2013
Review: Sidekick #1
J. Michael Straczynski launches another book in the Joe’s Comics line, although it is one that might just live up to its title. The deconstruction of the superhero genre in the pages of comic books continues unabated, with several titles this year already posing the question of ‘what happens when the thrill is gone?’ Following the …
Aug 09 2013
Graphic Bits Reviews: Avengers A.I. #2, Green Arrow #23, Green Lantern #23, Hunger #2, Satellite Sam #2 and Ten Grand #4
Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (7 August 2013) we get sophomore efforts from Avengers A.I. (Marvel), Hunger (Marvel) and Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s truly brilliant Satellite Sam (Image …