Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 3/31/18
Happy Easter Weekend, everybody! If you celebrate! For me, it’s just another good excuse to go home and visit with my folks and whatever family shows up for dinner. Should be fun.
You know what else is fun? Comics! Lots of diverse comics this week, mostly from DC. They gave us another chapter of Doomsday Clock, and the Power Rangers comic kicked off their first Big Event with Shattered Grid! But Comic Book of the Week goes to the final issue of Dark Knights: Metal for being all manner of intense comic book insanity.
It was hard to pick just one out-of-context panel that would still be a singularly awesome introductory image
Meanwhile, Marvel announced the return of a proper Fantastic Four comic, like we all knew they would eventually. It’s only been about two years and Marvel did very little with the missing team — though what they did do, with Brian Michael Bendis’ Infamous Iron Man, was phenomenal! I don’t particularly care about the Fantastic Four, but I’ll definitely pick it up, since the creative team is Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli. If Slott can do for the Fantastic Four what he did for Silver Surfer, then I’ll probably fall in love all over again.
Also, I read Green Lantern: Earth One this week and it was really good! Solid re-imagining of Hal Jordan and his Green Lantern origins.
Comic Reviews: Dark Knights: Metal #6, Detective Comics #977, Doomsday Clock #4, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #25, The Silencer #3 and The Terrifics #2.
Na Na Na Na Na Na Batman Costumes!
That cool artist guy at Tell It Animated is back! This time, he’s doing all the cinematic Batman costumes!
Everybody loves a good Batman video for their Friday! I’m doing good works in sharing this.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Gets the Usual Treatment
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a fine film. I enjoyed it, I think. It’s definitely grown on me in time. And like all popular movies these days, it gets an Honest Trailer.
Like the coming of the dawn and like the inevitable How It Should Have Ended video, this will be a thing.
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6 Things I Want to See in Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Infinity War is only about a month away and the hype is pretty stellar. Will Marvel be able to maintain a solid, exciting movie with so many characters and so much anticipation? I’m confident that they can and I can’t wait for the movie! And, of course, I have certain expectations!
It’s almost here!
No, my enjoyment of the film will not rest on whether my expectations are met. I am hopefully not going to hold Avengers: Infinity War to any standards other than its own. But there are plenty of neat things I can speculate about or hope for in the film. I’m fairly confident that the trailers haven’t given everything away. I’m sure there’s so much left to see and do and experience!
Join me after the jump for all the bits and pieces I hope we get to see in Avengers: Infinity War!
The Hunt is on for Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson’s new film, Isle of Dogs, is out in select theaters — nowhere near me. I think the wide release is sometime in April. Basically, I’m desperate to see this movie, but have no idea when it will be available, or if it will even play at my local movie theaters. Why are Wes Anderson movies so limited?! Is he not universally beloved?! Honestly!
Yeah, Honest Trailers nailed him pretty good. The movies, characters, themes, songs and everything else are still awesome. Somebody bring me Isle of Dogs!
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