Nightwing #1 Review

Ever since I saw him on that odd, Starfire-focused future episode of Teen Titans I've always thought Nightwing was pretty cool. He was grown up Robin, but with a bit more of an edge to him. He had something else to prove. He had his own city, Blüdhaven (Gotham's sister city) and his own new, fresh set of rogues that he had to take on. I never got to read much of Nightwing, so I only ever knew about him as a side character going on quests with Batman, or fighting for a cape against Jason Todd. 

Dick Grayson, though, I know a little more about. How he was Robin, then Nightwing, then even Batman. In comics, there are few who can say they've eclipsed the master (Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson come to mind immediately). But Dick Grayson has a little more going for him, and that, I think, is in part due to the relaunch of the New 52 in 2011. 

Blog Update #6 - Winds of Spring

You know, these blog updates are really getting out of hand in how unreliable they are. At least, the last one was pretty bad. Promised a whole month of AXIS and hero and villain stuff and hero inversions...and I got about a third of what I wanted out of it. All of the hero inversion, in "Blue Nexus" was pretty much done in December, too.

Blue Nexus #36 - Reluctant Hero

            Boomer shouldn’t be able to move. Able to lift his arms high enough to lift himself out of the rubble. Able to twist his legs around the heavy support beam from some little store some small family was depending on for their livelihood. Able to avert his gaze away from the black-stricken block that flooded with shadows off the giant monster’s body. Able to breathe in the filtered, no-longer-toxic air through the tubes from his suit. Able to hear his suit fading away, losing its great power from the Nexus.

            Able to know that his life was going to end tonight.

Unity #1 Review

In the 1990s there was a small company known as Valiant Comics that was putting out brand new super heroes like Ninjak, Bloodshot, the Eternal Warrior. They weren't the biggest hits--Bloodshot seemingly the biggest impact of all them, or at least the longest lasting. The company was bought out in the mid-90s by a videogame company, publishing comics of those games, but it ultimately failed and Valiant Comics tanked, going under and allowing titans like Marvel and DC to move in at the turn of the century. 

A little over a decade later, though, Valiant Entertainment surfaced, and under a new bold direction: forget what we've done in the past, we're charging forward with a whole new mythos. If you've read those stories from back then, that's great, but we have to expand to a new audience and make a name in a world of superheroes that had undergone controversy. 

"Dagashi Kashi" First Impression

So the new season of anime is upon us. This one, Dagashi Kashi wasn't at all on my radar when it started. Titles like Divine Gate, Dimension W, and some new seasons of established IPs like Assassination Classroom or something like Fairy Tail Zero--which is technically filler, but is something of a prequel...ah whatever.

Great Stories Need Great Villains

When my blog started up nearly two years ago, it seemed like there was a great focus on villainy, on the bad guys and how cool they are. While my idea that they are pretty darn great has not changed, the focus certainly has. I haven't been able to discuss themes and concepts in a while, moreover trends that have been happening in geek culture, or things on upcoming events.

Fantastic Four #1 Review

Last year was an incredibly tough year for Marvel's First Family. Their comic was cancelled. Their movie was God-awful. Their four main characters either died or were pushed to the side in the major Marvel event (well, I haven't read the latest issue, but I can't imagine the final battle being as hype as it was back with Secret Wars #4). What the heck happened to such a beloved franchise?

Blue Nexus #35 - Familiar Faces

            A tower loomed overhead, blurred through the dream-vision. It seemed to be somehow divided into four separate sections, though the haze Kyle saw the tower through made it nearly impossible to tell for sure. Still, the height was fairly obvious.

            Shadows wafted around the base of the tower like a smoke machine, but didn’t draw closer to where he stood. Around him, people—that he couldn’t see or distinguish—shifted. But Kyle felt a hard focus. He glared at the tower, his body and senses tightening up.

            But at the sight of the tower that he’d never even seen before? What?

Deadpool Corps #1 Review

So, it's a new year. It's a new me. It's a new you, and it's a new beginning. 

Yeah that's great let's just talk about Deadpool already, that's the real reason you're here. If you're unfamiliar with my blog, that's okay. You're a click away from familiarizing yourself with it. And if you are familiar with it, you'll (hopefully) remember that last year, I reviewed a Deadpool comic as my first book of the year. So, why change things? 

"Attack on Titan" Season 2 Hype!...?

SPOILER ALERT FOR ATTACK ON TITAN SEASON 1

It's hard to believe that it's been two and a half years since Attack on Titan took the world by storm. I mean, it was everywhere! It pulled--maybe even yanked--people into the anime medium and almost instantly spawned spinoffs and global attention. Sure, some of those took a little to come around, but the fact that it had one parody and two prequel series within the span of a year is an impressive feat. Usually that's something reserved for the longer-running series, not a show with merely 25 episodes.

2016 Most Anticipated Movies

Oh boy, 2016. The year of sequels, hopes, dreams, and heroes fighting each other. But, hey, what else is new, am I right? This'll also be the year that the cinema takes all my money, because there are seven movies that I definitely will see, and a couple here and there that are on my radar that I'm considering. They might be my "Redbox movies" of the year. But, overall, it's a pretty hype year.