According to The Hollywood Reporter, DC Comics is relaunching their Vertigo imprint, though I wonder why it stopped in the first place. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I was never a huge DC fan–I started on them, but migrated to Marvel Comics–but Vertigo always held a special place in my heart because they were […]
NBC, as part of their upcoming new season, is launching a series based upon DC/Vertigo’s Hellblazer. And unlike the last movie based on the character, this time around he’s actually British! And blond! I don’t know quite what’s going on, but I have grown accustomed to television executives doing their best to ignore, not acknowledge, the […]
NBC is developing a series based upon DC’s Constantine (the ‘New 52’ version of the character, not “Hellblazer”), and I was OK with that, till I heard that David Goyer is one of the people behind it. This is the guy that says Superman (essentially) letting thousands die ON TOP OF breaking General Zod’s neck […]
I just finished watching “Justice League: Doom” on Netflix, and I have to admit that I enjoyed it. I like that way that the Hall of Doom was used, and much to my liking, there wasn’t a bit of camp, irony or nods (other than its appearance) to the one that originally that appeared in […]
Anyone who’s a fan of “The Punisher,”–the Marvel comic, not the 2008 movie “Punisher: War Zone, though that too was based upon a story by Garth Ennis, “Welcome Home, Frank”–or “Hellblazer,” is aware of the edgy, violent, storytelling of Garth Innis. Recently he released a trailer for a film he wrote and directed called “Stitched.” […]
I like movies–which has more than a little to do with me writing for a movie website–though superhero films hold a special place in my heart. As a kid, when I wasn’t imagining myself as Captain Koenig of Moonbase Alpha, I was a superhero, and Bear Mountain in New York’s Central Park (26 miles of parkland […]
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