It’s downright shameful how the comic industry got looked down on from the rest of the literary world in years past. Only recently, in the past decade or so, have comics become more widely accepted—some even used in classrooms as an education tools. For the most part comics offer up some great stories, demonstrate how […]
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When Impel first released the megaton nuke of a card set known as Marvel Universe (Series 1) in 1990, they must’ve known that a cash cow was born because the company quickly scooped up several other major franchises for card series—all using the same general layout/designs as with MU. And while knowing is half the […]
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While Marvel Comics has dabbled in animation since the mid-60s, it wasn’t until 1999, when they joined forces with Saban International and 20th Century Fox, that the publisher offered up it’s first animated series based on The Avengers. The series, The Avengers: United They Stand, was heavily promoted and much hyped. The collective fan response […]
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With a cast including the likes of Jude Law, Ian Holm and Willem Dafoe, I felt like I was in good company watching eXistenZ. That, along with the fact it was written and directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome) was… well, promising. What followed instead was a 97 minute cyberpunk crap shoot about anal rape […]
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SIMPSONS PIXELS While I’ve somewhat lost interest in The Simpsons these past few years, with exception made to the annual Treehouse of Horror episodes, I have enjoyed the creativity they’ve employed by allowing other artists take a shot at the opening credits “couch gag.” One style we haven’t seen yet, though, is pixel art so […]
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Another film premiering for the first time at Sundance, TURBO KID was originally conceived as a short film entry for Drafthouse Films’ The ABCs of Death called T is for Turbo. While it didn’t quite make the cut, contestants François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS.tv) director Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun) and producer […]
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It’s a brand new year, baby, and you know what that means… there’s even more indie-inspired goodness popping up on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo just itching to be funded by the masses (that’s us). Which begs the question: which ones are worth your attention? That’s where this column comes in. The following are hand selected projects […]
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First appearing in 1978, Jim Davis’s Garfield, about an orange gluttonous cat that hates Mondays and loves Lasagna, is something of a pop culture icon. In fact, that’s a complete understatement when you consider how much profit one single item of his merchandise raked in during the eighties. I speak, of course, of the Garfield […]
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There are lots of different kinds of stuffed bears out there, but none quite as “beastly” as Beasty Bears. Released in 1991 by Tonka—presumably to appeal to the boys market—these eye-offendingly multi-colored monstrosities looked cute and cuddly on the outside, but flip them inside out and you unleashed the beast (“big fangs with claws in […]