Disclaimer: there will be spoilers from the Disney+ show, The Acolyte, in this blog post. I don’t think that will be much of a problem for a show that will not be getting any more seasons, but I thought I should mention it. SPOILER SPACE …………………….. …………………….. …………………….. The Acolyte…
This blog is technically a comic-book-based blog, even if I’m not buying comic books on a monthly basis any more (although I do buy the occasional creator-owned trade paperback to support creators whose work I enjoy; I hope I’ll discuss them in the weeks and months to come). I just…
I have been a comic book fan since the early to mid-1980s (as documented in this post about Uncanny X-Men #201). I have also been a hip-hop fan since then, what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Hip-Hop, roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s (the exact dates…
I was and still am a big fan of physical copies of comic books. But I can’t afford to buy all the comic books I want to read. I have long used libraries to supply my comic book-reading habit (see my original praise of libraries and then discussing passing the…
*Disclaimer: not a critic. Is it an addiction? A fool’s paradise? FOMO? Nostalgia? OCD? It’s been nearly 2 years since I last posted on this blog. Why am I returning? Good question. I wish I had a good answer. Even though nobody reads this blog, I love having it as…
The recent Hawkeye television series on Disney+ (which I will discuss in another post) was clearly based on the comic book run by Matt Fraction and David Aja (with Matt Hollingsworth on colours and Chris Eliopoulos on letters, edited by Steve Wacker), with the visual aesthetic of the promotional material…
The Suicide Squad and Suicide Squad: the difference between the definite article and its absence – a discussion? The Suicide Squad is technically a sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad, but you don’t need to know anything about the first film to understand and enjoy the second film (apart from wanting…
Nowadays, instead of purchasing a lot of comic books, I read a lot of my comic books via the various libraries I have access to (see my post on borrowing more than 1000 collections and original graphic novels). Therefore, it was a significant shift when the pandemic closed the libraries…
As a fan of martial arts and superheroes, I was looking forward to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (herein referred to simply as Shang-Chi), although I suspect not as much as Asian people who are fans of the MCU. This film is the first Asian American superhero…
My love of comic books and films means that I try to watch adaptations of superhero comic books in the cinema for the best experience (see the comic book movies category of this blog); however, for various reasons, I missed the opportunity to catch Shazam! on the big screen. Its…