Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 2/10/24
It’s Super Bowl Weekend! And I’m probably instead going to go see the movie American Fiction in an empty theater. It’s supposed to be pretty good. I also had a fun time reading comics this week, like the new Ultimate Black Panther and the new ThunderCats!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Sensational She-Hulk #5 for another very fun, character-based issue. I love what I love, and sometimes She-Hulk really delivers.
Meanwhile, still playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, still having a ball. It’s a fun, simple game, which is what a traditional Mario game should be. I spent the past week watching all three seasons of Slow Horses on AppleTV+, and that show was good, solid entertainment. I hope Gary Oldman was having fun.
Also, if you haven’t seen yet, the latest volume of my self-published comic — Gamer Girl & Vixen — is coming to Kickstarter on Monday! I would love your support and I’ve no doubt you’ll love my comic!
Comic Reviews: Birds of Prey #6, Captain America #6, Sensational She-Hulk #5, ThunderCats #1 and Ultimate Black Panther #1.
Read the rest of this entryGamer Girl & Vixen in ‘Walk of Pride’
It’s Friday! So I’ve got another Gamer Girl & Vixen mini-comic to share! This one is called Walk of Pride, and has artwork from the excellent Luke Beatrice.
Click the picture or this link.
The new Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter campaign launches on Monday! I know I can count on you, my kind and loyal blog readers, to pre-order my comic and spread the word on social media once we get going! And if anyone is interested in signing up in advance, here’s the link to the Kickstarter campaign! The more people we have sign up in advance the better we appear on Kickstarter’s radar! So sign up!
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Hold All the Phones, There is a Knuckles TV Show Coming
We knew this was coming. It was announced, talked about, hinted at; and now we have a trailer. Dear lord in Heaven, we have a trailer for a live action Knuckles the Echidna TV show. How has it come to this?! I love Knuckles. Like, to an absurd degree. I loved him before I even knew what he looked like, because I was the sort of dorky kid who already knew what an echidna was before Knuckles showed up in Sonic 3. I spent so much energy hoping that Knuckles would show up in one of those two Sonic the Hedgehog animated cartoons from my youth.
Young Sean would have his mind freakin’ blown at this existence of this Knuckles TV show.
And it looks good maybe?! I’m no mega fan of the live action Sonic movies. In fact, I don’t think I particularly like them? I don’t remember. But I do think I really enjoyed Idris Elba as Knuckles in the sequel. So you best darn well believe I’ll be watching this show when it comes to Paramount+ on April 26.
Jeez louise. The Knuckles live action TV show. What even is the world we are living in?
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6 Potential Superhero Super Bowl Half Time Shows
It’s Super Bowl week! The Big Game is this weekend between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers! I have no dog in the race — I’m a Cincinnati Bengals fan — and I’m not going to watch anything but the commercials on YouTube. But I can definitely make a Super Bowl-themed List of Six this week!
I’ve already done sports-themed superheroes. I even did a list of comic characters that Taylor Swift should date! This time I’m going to do comic book characters who could put on a good Half Time Show! There are a couple of musical-based characters, or even superheroes who are rockstars. Honestly, I’d love to see more comics where super-powered characters have jobs other than superhero. I think it would be neat!
Join me after the jump for six musical comic book characters who could put on a pretty good Super Bowl Half Time Show!
Read the rest of this entryDeath Stranding 2 is Gonna Be Freaky Deaky
I loved the first Death Stranding game. It would have been my game of the year had I not waited so long to play it. Everybody complained that it was a walking simulator and that’s what I loved about it. I love pedantry in video games. I spent all of my time gathering resources so that I could build all the roads so that my deliveries were easier in a truck.
So I was very excited to see that Hideo Kojima is making a sequel!
So, uh, I don’t remember anything about the story or the weirdness. But I do see some walking and some vehicles, so I really, really hope the new game recreates the first game as a delivery boy. Let me walk! Let me build roads! Let me make deliveries! I can’t wait.
But I’m going to have to, because Death Stranding 2: On The Beach doesn’t come out until 2025…that’s gonna be a big year in gaming.
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