6 DC Characters I Want to See in Injustice 3
I am currently stuck in a rut with the DC superhero fighting game Injustice 2. I like the series well enough, but I’ve never been a huge fan of fighting games in general. For this sequel, however, they introduced character leveling and loot boxes, and that’s where I’m stuck. Basically, you now earn new gear and equipment so your fighters can play dress-up!
Injustice 2 is a character redesign game, and I just have to grind through some fights to get new outfits for everybody!
An evil Superman? Who’da thunk it
The outfits don’t mean anything. It’s not like I compete on any multiplayer level, or that I’ll be saving the outfits to share with anybody. I just like seeing all the superheroes dressed up in fancy new duds. Hopefully another video game will come along soon to break me out of this loot-grinding rut!
Until then, I’ve got a few ideas for what superheroes and villains need to appear in the next game, should they make an Injustice 3! Join me after the jump for my ideas!
Just So Many Trailers
Over the weekend, the universe dropped just so many trailers, you guys. I’ve loved watching movie trailers since the E! Network had a show called Coming Attractions back when I was a kid! It was literally a half-hour TV show that played movie trailers and I was a big fan. So I love sharing movie trailers on this ol’ blog o’mine!
First up, Tomb Raider.
Fun fact: I’ve never seen the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies. Or if I have, I have forgotten everything about them. And I never played the original Tomb Raider games either. The only Tomb Raider I’ve actually experienced have been the last two rebooted games, which are really fun. And the new movie is based on those games, so I have highish hopes.
Next up, Ash vs. Evil Dead, season 3!
Love this show. Can’t wait for the new season!
Third up is Super Troopers 2!
Loved the first movie, so I’m excited for the new one. But honestly, this trailer is kind of lame. Not the quality I expect. Hopefully the movie fares better.
Last is Rampage!
The Rock vs. a bunch of giant monsters with a nice quippy sense of humor? Yeah, sure, I’ll watch.
The Super Bowl is coming up, so more movie trailers are coming up! Brace yourselves!
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 1/20/18
Comics! We’ve got comics! So many comics! There are a bunch of cancelled titles out there, but I’ve still got plenty to read. In fact, this week features some of my favorites, like Power Rangers and Mighty Thor! We also get the new Harley Quinn creative team!
Unsurprisingly, Comic Book of the Week goes to Tom King’s Batman. That guy is killing it on this title! And artist Joelle Jones is back to draw Wonder Woman, so everything is pretty much perfect.
That’s how Batman works
Meanwhile, in other comic book news, Marvel announced the upcoming wedding of Colossus and Kitty Pryde. I have zero interest in this union. My introduction to the X-Men came through the 90s cartoon show, where both characters were absent. So I’ve never had any investment in their relationship, unless you count Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men, but I don’t remember that series for Kitty and Colossus.
But hey, if that’s what Marvel wants to do, more power to them, I suppose. I’m sure some fans are happy.
Comic Reviews: Batman #39, Harley Quinn #35, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #23 and Mighty Thor #703.
Jubilee’s Long, National Vampire Nightmare is Over!
Once upon a time, back when Twilight’s popularity was already waning, Marvel Comics had the stupid idea to revitalize their own vampire characters. They turned characters like Dracula into modern hunks, tried to come up with all new vampire lore, acted like these vampires were going to be a big deal in the Marvel Universe going forward, and basically made fools of themselves. Then they roped the X-Men into this madness.
I”m sorry for making you remember
The only real consequenceof this legitimately stupid story endeavor was that Jubilee was turned into a vampire. She had lost her regular powers on M-Day and was just kind of hanging around for a bit with nothing to do, so Marvel turned her into a vampire.
That stuck around for years afterwards, even as the vampire fad mercifully faded away. Jubilee was a vampire in every comic she showed up in, including random ones like Patsy Walker a.k.a. Hellcat.
You were too good for this world, Patsy Walker a.k.a. Hellcat
Wild stuff, right? And just so, so dumb. What business does Jubilee have being a vampire? It’s not like they really focused much on her even being a vampire. Writers gave her a magical amulet that let her go out during the day and just ignore a bunch of other vampire stuff. It was an albatross around her neck.
Fortunately, using the comic book magic of the Phoenix Force, Jubilee was restored to her old self in the latest issue of Generation X this week.
At least she never gave up the yellow coat
Hooray for that! Normally I’m not a big fan of taking crazy steps to retcon the world back to the status quo, but this is one instance where it was the right choice. Jubilee as a vampire was dumb. Jubilee as Jubilee is great!
Our long national nightmare is over. Praise the Phoenix!
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It’s Thorsday!
I’ve been sitting on these Thor: Ragnarok videos for a week or two now, and I wish I was clever enough to have purposefully saved these for a Thursday. I’m not, I didn’t, but I’m sharing them anyway and I hope you enjoy them!
How Thor: Ragnarok should have ended!
Thor: Ragnarok behind-the-scenes DVD bloopers and stuff!
I assume this means this glorious film will be out on DVD soon!
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