Everything Wrong With the New Ninja Turtles Movie
I stand by my general enjoyment of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, but Cinema Sins had to go there.
That movie deserves to be torn apart! But like I said, I generally enjoyed it. The Ninja Turtles were my favorite cartoon as a Young Sean, but I’m savvy enough to know that there will always be new Ninja Turtle adaptations. Heck, I really love the current Nickelodeon cartoon, and I’m fairly certain the old 80s cartoon does not hold up. So if Michael Bay and friends want to make a few modern day Ninja Turtle movies, I say more power to them. I’ll still get a little kick out of all of them.
And someday, there will be even new cartoons, movies and comics.
Remind me to tell you henchies someday about my perfect Bebop and Rocksteady origin story. It’s genius.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 1/17/15
Something is definitely wrong with me these days, henchies. I am definitely not living up to the ‘hench-sized’ decree in the title of this column! From last week to this one, it seems like I have a whole heck of a lot to talk about with comic books! I try to keep these reviews short and easily digestible, but sometimes when I get going, I really get going!
It helps that this week sees the debut of Star Wars #1. There’s definitely a lot to talk about with that comic! I was a little hesitant about diving in, but Marvel does not let me down. This is quality comics! Star Wars #1 captures Comic Book of the Week because it could be a pretty historic book.
If it was up to me, though, Captain Marvel would win because the newest issue is just that damn good! Captain Marvel #11 gets the first perfect score of the new year! Check the review to find out why! We’ve also got new issues of Batgirl and SHIELD, both of which deserve a lot of attention. And Batman Eternal finally brings us an issue focused on Red Robin and Harper Row, the only thing I still like about that comic.
Over at Word of the Nerd, you can check out my take on Amazing X-Men #15. Why does a comic like that still get published in the very crowded X-franchise? Find out in my review!
Comic Reviews: Batgirl #38, Batman Eternal #41, Captain Marvel #11, SHIELD #2, Silver Surfer #8 and Star Wars #1.
The Greatest Justice League Parody of All Time
Behold, the combination of Dilbert and the Justice League! Try not to be drinking any milk when you read it.
This bit of brilliance comes courtesy of Rob Peters and The Line is Drawn column at Comic Book Resources. They ran a contest for artists to combine comic book characters and comic strip characters, and there are a few gems. You can check out the whole gallery by clicking here. They’re worth a read!
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Gamer Girl & Vixen – The Feels, You Guys, The Feels!
As I mentioned last week, the first issue/chapter of my comic, Gamer Girl & Vixen, is in full production. That means my artist, the lovely and talented Gemma Moody, is hard and work cranking out actual drawn pages of a script I co-wrote. I don’t know how often I’ve talked about this on my blog, but I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I can still remember writing fan fiction on my family’s archaic laptop back in the day, cranking out stories that I never knew if anybody would read. But that was years ago, and I haven’t written very much in the intervening years.
So this week, I want to tell you all something: get out there and write! If it’s your dream to be a writer, whether it’s comic books or movie screenplays or young adult novels, stop putting it off and just write it! I put it off for the longest time. More than a decade of my life has been spent not-writing. Last year, my friend Kristi McDowell helped me get off my butt and get writing, and we’re weeks away from launching out Kickstarter to actually publish my own graphic novel. It’s really happening and it feels great!
Seriously, I never knew how amazing it would feel to see pages of my comic come in from my artist. It’s a giddy excitement that more than makes all the work worth it. Check out this collage I put together of some of the great panels she’s sketched so far.
None of these are in order, by the way.
Just seeing my ideas come to life like that is mind-blowing. It’s such an exciting feeling. It helps, of course, that Moody is awesome, but I would imagine seeing any artist whip up my ideas would be great.
So consider this my PSA: Get out there and write. I know a lot of my readers are also comic book fans, and I’m sure plenty of you want to write your own comics. I’m here to tell you that it’s easy, it feels great, and you shouldn’t be putting it off anymore. And if you want any advice, I’m here. I’ll be retelling some more stories about my project in the weeks to come. I’m thinking next week I might be able to share some penciled pages, maybe even some script. We’ll see. Stay tuned.
And as always, please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or tumble us on Tumblr. We gotta get the word out!
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Agent Carter Has It Rough
How’s everybody liking Agent Carter? I’ve only seen the first two episodes so far, and they were pretty neat. I like the character, for sure, and Haley Atwell is just top notch. I think it’ll make a nice little diversion between Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
And, of course, we can always count on Only Leigh to be awesome! I love her animations, I love her voice, I love her geekery; she’s quality Internet!
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