Category Archives: DC
6 Thoughts on the First Season of Arrow
It’s still wild to believe that we have a real, legitimate, live action Batman TV show on the air. Granted, it stars Green Arrow, but beggars can’t be choosers. I kid, I kid. Arrow is a pretty awesome show. The previous superhero show on the CW, Smallville, was more about Superman as a teen heartthrob than Superman as Superman. So it’s simply fantastic that we have a show about a dark, gritty superhero vigilante who fights crime, deals with entertaining drama and doesn’t shy away from costumes, sidekicks and evil super-villain plots to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
You could put an eye out with that…oh
I’m not sure how to review TV shows. I reviewed the first episode of Arrow, but I have neither the time nor energy to review each and every episode. That sounds exhausting. But I’d still like to talk to you guys and gals about Arrow. So I decided that the best thing to do would be to review the entire first season as a List of Six. And here we are: 6 thoughts on the first season of Arrow.
Full Batman: Arkham Origins Trailer
Remember last week when I posted the first teaser trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins, and it was pretty much just a short, well-animated fight between Batman and Deathstroke? Well now the first full trailer is out, and it’s basically just a long, well-animated fight between Batman and Deathstroke.
Not that I’m complaining. It’s very well animated. And it features Deadshot and Black Mask, so yay for that. But honestly, it doesn’t show any of the actual game. And nothing in that trailer says ‘Origins’ to me. That could simply be the trailer for a game set at any point in Batman’s career. When did they go back in time to his early days for this story? Was that the only way they could think to bring the Joker back? Are they that desperate to use the Joker again?
Oh well, again, I’m far from complaining. This should be an awesome game. Also, apparently there will be a pre-order bonus that lets you play as Deathstroke. I’m definitely going to get that.
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 5/18/13
It’s taken me long enough, but I think I’m finally going to start using the .5 in my ratings system. My current 5/5 rating is needlessly complex, what with the words and exclamation marks that probably only make sense in my head. I want to clear things up a little and give myself a little more leeway in terms of classifying comics. Because there are a lot of comics this week that were better than ‘alright’ but I wouldn’t say they were particularly ‘good’. And the basic gist of my review scheme is just me thinking about how I would describe a comic’s quality to someone in one word.
1 – Terrible
1.5 – Very Bad
2 – Bad
2.5 – Pretty Bad
3 – Alright
3.5 – Pretty Good
4 – Good
4.5 – Very Good
5 – Great!
I hope this makes a little more sense. If it doesn’t, please let me know. I haven’t heard any complaints about my ratings system yet, but I want you guys and gals to let me know if I’m not making any sense or could do something better. You’re my readers and the best ones available for giving me feedback. So please don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments.
That being said, it’s a pretty good week for comics. There are one or two gems in my pile, and a few that were mostly so-so. A lot of this week’s comics were just moving the story along, getting us through to the next chapter, and that’s fine. But it’s not overly compelling. But then there are also issues like Wolverine and the X-Men #29, which has the most fun I think anyone has ever had designing a possible alternate future for the X-Men. Jason Aaron must have holed up in his office all day just thinking up wacky character references and one-off gags to make, and they’re all a heck of a lot of fun. Wolverine and The X-Men easily wins Comic Book of the Week.
I know some of my readers at Wolverine and the X-Men haters, but for me, this issue really brought back some of the heart and energy that I enjoyed at the start of the series.
Comic Reviews: Age of Ultron #8, Batwoman #20, FF #7, Nightwing #20, Red Hood and the Outlaws #20, Wolverine and the X-Men #29, and Wonder Woman #20.
First Batman: Arkham Origins Teaser Trailer
Just a tease for now, but a nicely animated one.
It doesn’t reveal anything new about the game, or anything at all, really. Someone very talented just animated a brief fight between Batman and Deathstroke. Kudos to them. But it’s a thing that I felt like sharing.
Plus this felt like a good opportunity to warn you people that you’re now in for several long, grueling months of me hoping Robin will be in this game. No, I kid. I kid ’cause I love…Robin. Dang, I need to get a new hobby.
Scribblenauts is Going Superheroic Because Awesome
I’m a huge Scribblenauts fan, and a huge comic book fan, so yesterday’s news about Scribblenauts Unmasked pretty much fulfilled every desire I could possibly have. Ever.
For realsies, that looks amazing. For those of you who don’t know, Scribblenauts is a puzzle game where you have access to your entire imagination in order to try and solve puzzles. The game developers opened up a dictionary and basically programmed every single word into the game. So all you have to do is type something – like, say, ‘purple monkey dishwasher’ – and it will appear in the game. The current puzzle might not require a purple monkey dishwasher, but you could create an army of angry, flaming zombies. Or maybe a blue cat. Or a time machine. Or a flying car. Whatever you can imagine, you can put into the game.
And now it’s going to star superheroes. Because awesome. That’s just awesome.
Word has it the game includes upwards of 2,000 DC superheroes, including alternate takes on classic superheroes. You’ll be able to create Pirate Batman and maybe Red Son Superman. Or maybe just regular Ambush Bug. Maybe the entire Blue Lantern Corps. I don’t know what you’ll need the entire Corps for, but that’s not the point. Scribblenauts is just awesome like that.
And it’s another reason why I need to get a Nintendo 3DS.
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