Tag: DC Comics

  • The Movie We Deserved… and Needed

    I’ve caught The Dark Knight Rises twice now and both times I enjoyed the hell out of the film.  It’s unique in that– as near as I can recall– it’s the first time a comic book movie franchise didn’t fumble the ball with their third outing. Spider-Man? Marred by “wait, Uncle Ben was really killed by Sandman! Plus…

  • Comic Book Chronicles #0

    Okay, so March more or less got away from me. I’m keeping track and will make it up, starting with this– the launch of my first foray into a proper blog post-series, which I am dubbing “The Comic Book Chronicles” (subtitle “the serial musings of a comic book fan”). It even lets me number them…

  • Who’s the leader of the club? S-P-I… D-E-Y…

    So, the huge news that’s hitting today is that Disney has acquired Marvel Entertainment— to include Marvel Comics and the Marvel stable of characters. When someone told me Marvel had been bought by a corporation, I’ll be honest, Disney was like the eighth guess (briefly wondered if the apocalypse was here and Time-Warner– owner of…