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The Clash of Mediums: Four Terrible Comic Book Movies

By Colin Ellis Apr 24, 2010 12:00 am

I’m not sure whom we have to blame (or praise) for the plethora of comic book movies we’ve seen over the last decade (probably the Salkinds, who produced Superman back in 1978), but no ...

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7 Lacklustre Heroes and Heroines

By Colin Ellis Apr 03, 2010 12:19 am

Movies thrive and die for so many reasons. I tend to blame the writer or director when a movie sucks horribly, forgetting that blame must be shared with the cast, and the male or female lead in ...

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Geek News! Chris Nolan on Upcoming Superman Reboot and the Last Batman Movie

By Colin Ellis Mar 19, 2010 6:03 pm

The LA Times got a hold of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, where he opened up a little on the next (and likely his final) Batman movie, as well as the Superman reboot he’s working on. ...

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Superman Took Down the KKK

By Max Arambulo Nov 02, 2009 9:08 am

Here's a blog I found at mentalfloss.com. Apparently, in the 1940s, this writer went undercover to Klan meetings and found out a whole bunch of their secrets and that recruitment was in full effect. ...

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General Zod

By Colin Ellis Sep 03, 2009 12:28 am

Zod's one of Superman's more one-dimensional villains. He's not as interesting as Lex Luthor or scary like Doomsday. But Terrence Stamp's performance in Superman II was one of the highlights of that ...

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Why I love Superman (But Hate Superman II)

By Colin Ellis Sep 03, 2009 12:00 am

Even though Superman has never been the most complex or interesting of comic book characters, he is the most iconic. I'm still not sure why. Does it have to do with the amount of marketing his ...

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Clark Kent Gets A Beat Down

By Colin Ellis Sep 03, 2009 12:00 am

This is what I'm talking about. Watching Clark get his ass handed to him by some redneck trucker is just... aarrgh!!!

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Books! (Vargas Llosa punches Garcia Marquez)

By Max Arambulo Jul 28, 2009 2:17 pm

- DC Comics reprinting Alan Moore's key 80s Superman stories in a nice hardcover. Here's a heartfelt piece on "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", the last story before the Superman: Man of ...

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Books! (aka Superman is a super perv)

By Max Arambulo May 07, 2009 11:48 pm

- Superman fetish art, well, it doesn't involve Superman but the Canadian half of the duo that created him. Joe Shuster apparently did this work after trying to sue DC for the copyright to the last ...

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How Superman Should Have Ended

By Kenny Mar 06, 2009 12:27 am

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