In so many books I read about Jerry Siegel, the hardest years of his life were clearly the latter part of the '60s up until the premiere of Superman: The Movie in 1978. It's brutal to read about the creator of Superman living paycheck to paycheck and downsizing his living space frequently for the better …
I’ll confess I’ve never been that big a fan of comic book movie adaptations. It always seemed kind of redundant to turn a movie based on a comic... back into a comic? And usually they’re an afterthought not really done by A-listers, anyway. For every Batman movie adaptation by Denny O’Neil, Jerry Ordway and José …
Continue reading Superman Returns- The Prequels: The Donner Movie Adaptation We Never Had
**Hey everyone! FYI this article contains MAJOR spoilers for Doomsday Clock! Enjoy!** Geoff Johns can do no wrong. His Green Lantern run is one of my top 2-3 favorite runs by any writer all time. His take on the DCU from the mid-2000s almost single-handedly brought me back to comics. I loved his runs on …
Continue reading Doomsday Clock: Superboy or Not? – A Few Thoughts
One of the greatest qualities of Marvel’s on-again, off-again series “What If?” is that it explored places that a monthly comic couldn’t or wouldn’t normally go. Famous storylines in the company’s history were revisited with different scenarios and outcomes. There was often more death, more genuine shock and some pretty thought provoking stories. It was …
Continue reading Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman- A Few Thoughts
I can’t even begin to tell you how exilerating it was as a fan to catch all the cameos on CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. Actually, that’s pretty stupid to say. I probably don’t even need to! Whether it be John Wesley Shipp’s Barry Allen or Burt Ward’s Robin, Kevin Conroy, Robert Wuhl, …
Continue reading Crisis on Infinite Earths: Brandon Routh’s Superman- A Few Thoughts
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