Mortal Kombat 1 is Here!
The latest in the Mortal Kombat series has arrived on all our video game consoles and it looks to be a fun one. All of these games are usually super fun to play. And as a guy who’s really into the story and lore of Mortal Kombat, this one looks especially cool with its universe reset and reshaping.
We’ve got one final launch trailer to share, introducing a couple of the less interesting playable characters.
Reiko and Nitara. Neat. Anyway, this all looks great. I probably won’t play the game for a while. I’m still deep into Baldur’s Gate 3 and so I’m not about to buy a $60 game just for kicks. I’ll wait for a sale, and maybe scoop up all the DLC at once. We’ll see. I’m most interested in Smoke’s new storyline, so hopefully that won’t be spoiled anywhere along the way.
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6 Things I Want to See in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
I loved the first Aquaman movie. I loved Jason Momoa in the lead role. I loved how it built to an insane ending, where Aquaman and Orm are in comics accurate costumes fighting in the middle of a giant undersea war. It was a crazy movie, and it earned that billion dollars. So I’m mildly excited for the upcoming sequel: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Granted, there are a lot of bad signs about this film. I don’t think DC necessarily makes bad movies now. I really enjoyed Blue Beetle and mostly enjoyed The Flash and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. So I have high hopes at at least enjoying Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It comes out at the end of December, just ahead of Christmas. And we’re supposed to get the first trailer tomorrow. So I’m in the mood to talk some Aquaman movies!
Join me after the jump for what I’d like to see in this upcoming Aquaman sequel. And feel free to share your own hopes and fears in the comments below!
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Godzilla is great. I’ve been loving Godzilla since I was a little kid, so who doesn’t love new Godzilla movies? We’ve got a Godzilla vs. Kong sequel on its way to the big screen, but this post is not about that movie. Instead, we’ve got a trailer for Godzilla: Minus One, made by Toho in Japan!
Damn, that looks cool. I need to watch those modern Toho Godzilla movies. They have given the big guy a great design and this movie looks like so much fun! I love the parts where we get up-close scenes of Godzilla’s feet walking among and upon the people. It’s funny and terrifying.
Godzilla: Minus One is coming to Japan on Dec. 1!
Meanwhile, coming to the rest of the world is a Monarch TV show. Based on the SHIELD-esque agency that monitors giant monsters, Monarch looks like it’s going to be to monster movies what The Walking Dead is to zombie movies: a show about the people living and surviving in the classic movie genre. And they seem to be putting a lot of money into using movie Godzilla to his full effect.
A TV show with movie-quality Godzilla stomping around? Heck yeah! Sounds like fun. What will the actual episodes be about? I don’t know. Will Godzilla feature in every episode? Probably not. Will we finally get Anguirus, my favorite monster? I sure hope so!
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is coming to AppleTV+ on Nov. 17.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 9/9/23
This is what happens when you turn 40 and go away for a few days: no posts! What also happens is the world throws a ton of comic books at you in a single week to review! After a few weeks of only two or so comics, this week we’ve got new Batman, new X-Men and a couple brand new DC titles.
Comic Book of the Week goes to the first issue of the new Birds of Prey for a really fun tale of getting the team together.
Meanwhile, I’m still 40, and nothing has changed. I bought myself some LEGO sets, saw the movie Bottoms, which is great, and my friends took me to an arcade bar where we played 4-player classic Ninja Turtles arcade, so that was a pretty perfect birthday. Other than that, I’ll spend the rest of my vacation playing more Baldur’s Gate 3!
Comic Reviews: Batman #137, Birds of Prey #1, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1, Scarlet Witch #8 and Immortal X-Men #15.
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6 Things On My Bucket List (Now That I’m 40)
Happy Birthday, to me! A whole bunch of coincidences came together for this moment: it’s a Wednesday, so there’s a new List of Six on this blog that I do, and it’s also my birthday, and it’s my 40th birthday. How about that? I’m 40! As of today! I’ve been writing this blog all through my 30s and let me tell you…life just keeps rolling along. I got no life lessons, people. Nothing. I’m still as interested in comic books and LEGOs as I was a decade ago.
So what to do for my List of Six on my 40th birthday? I thought about doing a fun list, like what comic book characters I hope to write someday. But I did that list last year and forgot that I did. Oh well. So I thought up another idea: what are things on my bucket list? I’ve got maybe 40 more years on this planet — if I’m lucky — and what am I going to do with those years? Hopefully, these six things, at some point.
Join me after the jump for six things on my life’s bucket list that I will hopefully complete before I die. And they’re all pretty surface level. Nothing silly like ‘fall in love again’ or ‘make a million dollars’. Just dumb Sean stuff. Also, other than the #1, the entries on this list are not in any particular order. They’re just in the way they came to me as I was writing.
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