Author Archives: Sean Ian Mills
Captain America/Black Panther Video Game Looks Keen
Once upon a time, Marvel announced a new video game teaming up Captain America and Black Panther. It existed in the back of my mind for all these years, and now we have the first story trailer! No real gameplay, but take a look at this atmosphere and character development — Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.
I think this game looks keen! I know we don’t have any gameplay yet, but it looks like maybe an Assassin’s Creed game for the Black Panther segment, and maybe an over-the-shoulder brawler for the Captain America segment. That should be fun.
I’m all in favor of more superhero video games. I love the Spider-Man games. I love the Batman: Arkham games. But other superheroes deserve the spotlight as well. Even if companies make stinkers like that Suicide Squad game, they should at least try! So I’m excited to see what Marvel 1943 will actually be like.
Of course, it’s not coming out until next year, which is going to be a very big year for video games.
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I Like the Look of The Acolyte
We got our first trailer the other day for The Acolyte, the next Star Wars TV show, and this one promises to be very different from the rest. The Acolyte will take place in the High Republic era, which is actually very exciting to me. I only ever read the first High Republic novel, so I’m not very vested in that world, but just the idea of it holds a lot of promise, I think.
The trailer looks good. So far, The Acolyte looks like it’s going to be an Andor-style world/story, but now with Jedi and lightsabers. That may just be trailer trickery. Maybe somebody told the trailer-maker to make it look more like Andor, the show everybody loves. But if I’m right, that would be awesome! A series story with a real message, and then with Jedi and lightsabers, would be a good show.
The High Republic era has a lot of promise. Let us see a world where Jedi are at the top of their game. Let’s see all those yellow lightsabers in regular circulation! I’m definitely interested in this one.
The Acolyte premieres on Disney+ in June.
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6 Best Ghostbusters Toys I Had
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire comes out this week and I was racking my brain to come up with some type of Ghostbusters-themed list. I’ve settled on just going down memory lane in regards to some of the Ghostbusters toys I had as a kid, because I was wild about that stuff! I enjoyed the movies, even the second one, and was big into The Real Ghostbusters cartoon!
There was even one Halloween where my parents made my younger brother a full-on Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume, which was all puffy and awesome. I would give so much to have a picture of that somewhere. I had a store-bought Egon Spangler costume to go along with him that year, so it was that really cheap, plastic clothing smock and mask with thin, stretchy band around the back. But I had some bonus goodies to make that costume really shine!
Join me after the jump to just admire some awesome Ghostbusters toys and whatnot from over the years.
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Tell It Animated is a great YouTube channel. Just a dude having a blast, and he’s accrued more than 1 million subscribers. Good for him! I’ve been a fan since the very beginning and will always gladly share his content. This time, he’s doing cinematic Frankensteins, possibly in connection to Lisa Frankenstein or maybe Poor Things.
Also, I am too sick still to care about the difference between Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster, so don’t come at me, bro. I just wanna share a fun video on this Monday so that there’s something we can enjoy. Stupid cold…
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 3/16/24
Ugh, what a week. I caught a nasty cold last weekend and have spent this whole week in some state of crumminess. Hopefully by the time you read these reviews I’ll be feeling better, but while I’m writing them, everything is crummy!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Transformers #6 because Daniel Warren Johnson just goes all out with the insane action!
Meanwhile, my two comic book Kickstarters both came to an end this week, both successful! So this year I will be making Gamer Girl & Vixen: Tyrant Lizard Queen, and a short story of mine will appear in The Cloakroom, a collection of shorts from students in Scott Snyder’s My Best Jacket Substack class. And I’m also finally getting to work on making that Cover Bard project I mentioned a long time ago. So this is gonna be a good year for me making my own comics!
Comic Reviews: ThunderCats #2, Transformers #6 and Ultimate Black Panther #2.
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