Yearly Archives: 2011
Review: Ultimate Comics: All-New Spider-Man #1
Replacing Spider-Man with a half-black, half-latino kid is the worst kind of liberal garbage in the history of all comics! It’s a vicious, bile-forming, rage-inducing, anti-America affront to all that is good and decent in this world! Glen Beck was right in claiming this was just the liberal media’s way of sucking up to President Obama and the First Lady. We should all get pitchforks and torches and march down to the Marvel officers and burn them asunder!
Ultimate Comics: All-New Spider-Man #1
No, I’m kidding. It’s actually a pretty cool comic, starting off the new Ultimate Spider-Man with a slow burn introduction. It’s written by the master of the slow burn, Brian Michael Bendis, so I’m more than willing to give him time to work his magic. That’s how the original Ultimate Spider-Man started, after all, and it was a fantastic story back in 2000.
Glen Beck really did say that, or something similar. And his anger made Bendis smile. A lot of people were freaking out when it was announced that ethnically-diverse 13-year-old Miles Morales would be taking over for white bread Peter Parker. They’re fools. I’m behind Miles 100%, even if I think they killed off Peter while his story was still very good and entertaining. Still, change is good and I trust Bendis to tell us a good and entertaining story. I wrote a blog post about Miles back when he was first announced, and I said it might be cool to see the themes and style of Spider-Man told through the eyes and world of a new character. It’s not like this is the first time that any superhero, Spider-Man included, has ever been replaced by someone new under the mask.
A Public Service Announcement about Zombies
As I work on my review of the zombie video game Dead Island, I thought I’d turn things over to The Goon to remind you all of the proper response when encountering a member of the undead!
6 Stories That Made Me Cry Like a Little Baby
First of all, I’m a manly man. I don’t cry. Second of all, sometimes crying can’t be helped. I’m a sucker for a really good dramatic scene in a movie or TV show. And sometimes it’s from a book or something else I’ve read. My eyes get watery, there’s a lump in my throat and I’m just awash with emotion. Everybody knows the feeling. It’s fantastic. Writers and other creative sorts know what they’re doing, they know how to put together the right characters, play the absolute perfect music and bring down the house with pure emotion.
Here are 6 tearjerker moments for me. Warning though, there will be several spoilers for the TV shows Lost and Doctor Who, as well as some movies and comics. Anyway, let’s get to it.
The Avengers…the video game?
Turns out some company called THQ Brisbane was working on an Avengers video game before they got shut down. The website Kotaku got their hands on some actual gameplay footage, showing a first-person shooter style of game, only you get to play as Avengers characters. The videos are pretty wild, with the Hulk and Iron Man and Thor so far shown. You fly and smash and throw the hammer, and it looks kind of cool. I can’t imagine it being very good, since comic book video games aren’t very good. But wow, imagine what we could have had.
Both the Thor and Captain America movies had video game adaptations. Alyssa said the Cap game was alright, but nothing special. I don’t imagine Thor was anything special either. Movie tie-in games just aren’t anything special anymore. Not since Spider-Man 2.
Still, check out these videos!
And then a second one.
What do you think? Does it look like a fun game? Would it have been cool to play as superheroes in the first person?
Spider-Man on Project Rooftop!
If you’ve never been to the website Project: Rooftop, it’s an artist site that features amateur drawings of alternate costumes of famous superheroes. It’s one of my favorite sites to visit. The pictures are all great and very creative, and it’s all for fun! They occasionally have contests where dozens of artists submit their variations on specific superheroes.
The first half of their Spider-Man contest was posted today!
Here are some of my favorites:
Reminds me of Ben Reilly, and that's always a good thing
Love the color scheme
Henchman-4-Hire 