Man-Thing – the review

Whatever knows fear burns at the touch of the Man-Thing. Believe it or not, there was a time when movies based on Marvel comics were a crap shoot.  Sure, they started out strong with the first X-Men, Spider-Man and the first two Blade movies.  But then, before a certain armored Avenger made his presence felt …

It’s a Work – Anvil: The Story of Pro Wrestling

This past Tuesday night, I went to Charlotte’s newest live-music venue- the Fillmore. Anvil was performing and this past year’s documentary, ‘Anvil: The Story of Anvil’, depicting their history and struggles to achieve rock stardom had won me over; not with their music, but because these men have marched thanklessly to their own thrash metal …

Pondering the Watchmen

Waiting for a flash of enlightenment in all this blood and thunder. - From Rorshach's journal It's Watchmen eve.  Can you feel the excitement? I feel something, but I'm not sure it's excitement.  Trepidation?  Perhaps.  Annoyance?  Very likely. Why? I'm sick of they hyperbole that's why.  People are getting far too worked up over this …

Watchmen: The Late Review

I hated Watchmen. Okay, some of you just spit soda pop all over your monitors. While we wait for you guys to clean up, let me warn the rest of you readers that there are spoilers aplenty in the following review. I wrote this piece assuming that you’ve already read the book yourself and found …

Watchmen Viral Video – The Keene Act and You

Watchmen suit

REPOSTED from http://www.mediabistro.com Tuesday, Aug 19 Watchmen Dispute: Alan Moore's Work is Jinxed Watchmen was the only thing anyone was talking about at Comic Con this year. Kevin Smith told the director of the film Zack Snyder at a standing room only panel,"The whole reason we ever had a Comic Con was that someone would …