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The King’s Man Looks Pretty Neat!
I wasn’t too impressed by the first trailer for The King’s Man, the upcoming prequel to the Kingsmen series. But this second trailer looks like a lot of fun!
Lots of highly choreographed fighting, lots of nifty gadgets, some cool dialogue; it all looks like a pretty neat adventure. Consider me on board for looking forward to this movie, which comes out on Feb. 14…Valentine’s Day.
I need to find a date!
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 9/28/19
Spider-Man is back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Marvel and SONY made a deal to co-produce one more Spidey MCU film, with at least one more cameo in another movie! How exciting. I had faith that the studios would work something out, and there’s still time to work even more out beyond this new 2021 film.
As for comics, not a big pile this week, with only Captain America, Powers of X and Power Rangers. I skipped the new Strikeforce comic, though maybe I should have checked it out to try something by Tini Howard. Comic Book of the Week goes to a stellar Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!
Ass-kicking incoming
Meanwhile, Harleen, the first part of the new Harley Quinn origin retelling by Stjepan Šejić has come out, and I was going to pick it up to review…but then I saw it was a double-sized book, and was pretty dense. So I’ve decided to wait and probably get it via tpb down the line. I am a big Stjepan Šejić fan and highly recommend Sunstone to anyone and everyone. Best love story I have ever read!
Comic Reviews: Captain America #14, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #43 and Powers of X #5.
I Don’t Know If I’m Ready for the End of BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman is probably my favorite show on TV right now. It’s funny, it’s touching, it’s deep, it’s dramatic; there is nothing else like BoJack Horseman.
So I’m kind of worried that the next season will be its last!
I’m worried in that I don’t know if I’m ready for the show to be over. I don’t know if I’m ready for BoJack Horseman to say its final word about the life and fate of its protagonist. Plus it always really stinks when your favorite TV shows come to an end.
The first half of the final season arrives on Oct. 25. The second half arrives on Jan. 31.
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The Last of Us II Joins Next Year’s Amazing Video Game Lineup
Next year is going to be crazy good for video games. I am most looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077, which will hopefully be amazing. But we’re also getting that Avengers game, Watch Dogs: Legion, a new Vampire: The Masquerade and so much more!
Now we can add The Last of Us II to the list. It’s coming out on Feb. 21.
I didn’t get to play the original Last of Us until I finally splurged on a Playstation 4 last year. I enjoyed the game, but I wasn’t as blown away as everyone else seems to be. I think too much time had passed and too much of the game had infused into the world of video gaming. But it’s still a great story, and I’m excited for a sequel!
I especially enjoy the fact that the protagonist of The Last of Us II is a queer woman. You don’t see that very often, even in 2019.
Heck, the protagonist of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is yet another white male, who I assume is going to be straight.
As much as I love Star Wars, I’m not particularly excited for Fallen Order. Every trailer I’ve seen paints the game as really on rails. The game seems to control what you do, where you go, who you fight, how you fight them; I’m a more open world sort of guy.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order comes out this year, on Nov. 15.
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6 Spider-themed Heroes and Villains (Other Than Spider-Man)
Spiders are awesome! I know they can be terrifying, but they’re mostly in the world to help in humanity’s never ending war against the insects. So it makes sense that the greatest superhero of all time is Spider-Man!
Best Spider-Man movie ever? Yes.
But why let a perfectly good comic book character theme go to waste in a single character? Just because Spider-Man is so well known does not mean there can’t be other characters based off of spiders. Heck, Spider-Man has so many clones, off-shoots and hangers-on that I could make this list several times over based just on his friends, allies and enemies! That’s why I have challenged myself to come up with a list of spider characters who are not connected to Spider-Man! I am including the various Spider-Women from Marvel in this restriction as well, because that would also make it too easy.
So join me after the jump for a bunch of other comic book characters fashioned after spiders, characters who have very little link to Spider-Man!
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