Author Archives: Sean Ian Mills
Another Reminder that Godzilla: King of the Monsters is Coming Out
There’s a new trailer today for Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It doesn’t offer anything new, just some further looks at all the monsters. That’s pretty fun, but previous trailers already accomplished that much.
Still, this looks like a fun movie and, therefore, trailers for it are pretty fun. Comes out at the end of May.
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The Definitive Ranking of the Mortal Kombat Palette-Swapped Ninjas
I’m going to say this right now to get it out of the way and establish it in stone for posterity: If I ever start a band, the band name is going to be “Palette-Swapped Ninjas”. I’ve been sitting on that one for awhile, so don’t steal it. And it’s a great lead into today’s topic: definitively ranking the palette-swapped Ninjas from Mortal Kombat. You know’em, you love’em, so let’s take a look at’em!
Mortal Kombat 11 comes out this week and features a couple of these characters. For reasons I can barely explain, I am deeply invested in the Mortal Kombat lore. I love the characters. I love the story. And I especially love every single palette-swapped ninja, no matter the crazy weird back story. As such, we’re going to have some fun ranking and discussing all of those kolorful kooks!
Join me after the jump for the definitive ranking! And if I messed up somewhere, please share your own thoughts in the comments!
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 4/20/19
By this time next week, I will have seen Avengers: Endgame and all will be right in the world. I can’t wait. I’m very excited. Let’s hope I’m not too excited!
Until then, we’ve got to read some fun comics, like Guardians of the Galaxy and the final issue of West Coast Avengers! The War of the Realms also continued this week! But Comic Book of the Week goes to the big, climactic issue of Tony Stark – Iron Man for a solid, enjoyable story.
Kids are jerks
Meanwhile, my skimming of new Uncanny X-Men issues reaffirms my correct decision to drop them. More characters I like are dead. Though if my brother is reading this, he might be slightly pleased to know that the original Pyro has been stealth returned to the living…though apparently as a one-note bad guy. I’m working on a larger Pyro article, I promise.
Comic Reviews: Guardians of the Galaxy #4, Magnificent Ms. Marvel #2, Tony Stark – Iron Man #10, War of the Realms #2 and West Coast Avengers #10.
Ms. Marvel is Getting a New Uniform; I Don’t Like It
Marvel Comics has announced that Ms. Marvel will get a new costume redesign to go along with some outer space adventures she’s going to have in her new comic. The redesign was announced alongside the new comic solicitations this week.
I don’t like the new costume.
Hopefully it’s not a symbiote
Judge for yourself, obviously, but I think it’s way too busy. It’s got all this new metal and all these new design features. It’s garish and tacky.
Because she uses so many shoulder bags?
Ms. Marvel’s original costume is pretty much perfect. And the old adage of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” definitely comes to mind.
But at the same time, costume redesigns are quite common in comics. Kamala isn’t immune to that sort of thing. But man, this redesign stinks. Another old adage — “Keep it simple, stupid” — also comes to mind.
This isn’t just me bitching about a change in a comic. A lot of recent costume redesigns have been great. Carol Danvers upgrading to that cool Captain Marvel suit was perfect. And the Spider-Woman redesign led to me reading her comic, which easily became one of my favorite comics of the past 10 years. I am a Spider-Woman fan to this day because that sweet costume change got me interested in the character.
We’ll see how this Ms. Marvel change goes…
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Hobbs & Shaw Attempts to Ruin Action Films For All Other Movies
I have never seen a Fast & Furious movie. Maybe parts of the first one back in college. But I’m going to see Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw on the first damn day thanks to this new extended trailer. Holy cow, people, this is how you make a movie trailer!
I almost don’t want to spoil the movie trailer! You have to see it for yourself! I loved it! From the Rock rallying an army of Samoan warriors to a chain of trucks trying to pull down a helicopter, this is awesome! Consider me hooked!
Hobbs & Shaw comes out on Aug. 2.
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