Empire in Decline: What George Lucas Can Learn from Marvel
by Blake Northcott The Star Wars YouTube channel recently released a trailer for a new animated series called Star Wars: Detours. It features exaggerated, cartoonish-looking characters from all six...
View Article’80s Versions of Modern Movie Classics
by Steve Stevenson It’s official–Hollywood is running out of ideas. We are living in the age of the remake, sequel and reboot, and the decade that seems to be plundered the most is the 1980s. And this...
View ArticleParty like a Has-Bro
by Brian Cullen By most scientific measures, I am an adult. I know this because a) I pay taxes b) I bitch about having to pay taxes c) every morning, I stare in the bathroom mirror and remember that...
View ArticleHalloween Costumes for the Manliest of Men
by Patrick Braud Gentlemen (who reside in caves), the annual “Day-Of-Getting-Wasted-While-Dressed-In-Ridiculous-Garb” is now upon us. This Hallow’s Eve, those of us who don’t hate fun will participate...
View ArticleThe Worst Avengers on Film
Avengers Resemble! With the big budget Avengers movie about to dominate theaters with its unique blend of explosions, and people acting stuff, we thought we should take a moment a remind these new...
View Article5 Reasons to Start Reading ‘Marvel NOW!’ Right Now
Does Stan Lee need my endorsement? Of course not. His beloved company is firing on all cylinders: top selling comics, movies that generate billions, Scarlet Johannsen in skin-tight leather – it can’t...
View ArticleIron Man’s 6 Dumbest Moments
by Luke McKinney Iron Man is the world’s most successful supervillain. He’s head of a gigabilion dollar corporation, owns multiple high-tech secret lairs, goes on a drunken/sexual/robotic rampages...
View ArticleThe Best Iron Man Stories to Read After Seeing ‘Iron Man 3′
by Luke McKinney The latest Iron Man movie is kicking ass, being loved worldwide, and making hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the most accurate superhero movie in history, because that’s...
View ArticleThe Incredible, Indestructible, Interesting Hulk
by Luke McKinney HULK SMASH! Which is a lot of fun, but not a lot to fill fifty years of stories. His recent movies reveal the problem he’s suffered under for decades: he’s amazing in The Avengers, but...
View Article10 Weird Questions with Gerry Duggan
by Rob Fee If you’re the least bit interested in comic books, then you’ve probably seen Gerry’s work. After working on numerous projects, including Uncanny Avengers, Gerry was most recently working on...
View Article10 Things You Should Know about Comics
Comic books have been around for over a century now, so getting started might be a little daunting. But don’t worry: we’ve put together ten easy tips to get you caught up on the world of comic books,...
View ArticleFive Things You Need to Know about Avengers vs. X-Men
This April, Marvel Comics launches their next big event, Avengers vs. X-Men, which finally pits Green Lantern against Archie. Just kidding! In case you couldn’t figure out from the title, the...
View ArticleGuns, Crime & Salma Hayek: The Five Best Films to See at the NY Film Festival
credit: Jonathan Wenk / Magnolia Pictures) Listen up, youse goons! It’s time you got some culture in, so we’ve rounded up the five films worth your time at Tribeca next week–and because we know you...
View ArticleThe Worst Avengers Ever
The Avengers are Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and Earth’s Worst Personnel Managers. An organization that can look at a Norse God and an ant and think “They’re about equal threats,” obviously has trouble...
View ArticleThe Summer of Whedon
by Matt Tarpey Scarlett Johansson’s Agent Romanov, a.k.a. Black Widow, in this summer’s big budget block-busting behemoth The Avengers may not seem like much next to guys who control lightning, fly...
View ArticleFive Badass Kids’ Shows
by Matt Tarpey Have you ever happened to catch an episode of one of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons from years ago and watched it now, as a full-grown adult? Well for those of you who have...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Invading the Earth
by Matt Tarpey Maybe we’re just biased, but it seems that the planet earth is a fairly sought-after piece of property. For whatever reason, be it the abundant natural resources, earth’s ever-popular...
View Article5 DC Superteams We Want to See on Film
The Avengers was really the Revenge of the Nerds, avenging comic book fans on a world which spent two decades saying superhero movies were stupid. Now Marvel movies make more money than several...
View ArticleThe Idiotic Ultron Imperative
Tony Stark tried to build something as pleasant to use as Windows, with the market domination strategy of Apple, and now Ultron is trying to kill everyone. But why would Tony do that? Building a robot...
View ArticleAnt-Man’s 6 Most Idiotic Moments
The only worse sign than a movie poster saying “Ant-Man” is “even the movie’s own director can’t sit through what happened to it.” We don’t know what Marvel did to the movie, but when you can drive...
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