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Comic Books, Franchises & Reboots Oh My!

January 13, 2010 by Bartoneus

Allow me to take you on a small adventure through my life of the last few months. With more spare time than I’ve had in the last six years and a cornucopia of neglected hobbies crying out for attention, trying to choose what to do next can be rather difficult.

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured, Movies, The Architect DM Tagged With: batman, comic books, Comics, franchise, Movies, reboot, sequel, spider-man, superman

Inq. of the Week: Friendly Local Gaming Stores?

November 30, 2009 by Bartoneus

This week December is officially upon us, and with it comes the full force of the holiday season and all of the shopping that implies. I find it a shame that ordering RPG books online from places like Amazon is so much cheaper then it would be if I were to go to my local game store.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Comics, FLGS, game store, gaming, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Non-RPG Content?

August 3, 2009 by Bartoneus

Well voting for the ENnies closed over the weekend, first and foremost I’d like to extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who voted for us! No matter what you ranked our site compared to the others, they all help and hopefully we will be pleasantly surprised at the ceremony during GenCon.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: Anime, boardgames, Comics, content, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Poker, Roleplaying Games, videogames, webcomic

Marvel’s X-Men Movie Mistakes

May 22, 2009 by Bartoneus

Stemming from some of the comments on Darth Cthulhu’s ‘controversial’ Star Trek post, I started thinking about the first X-Men movie and its relation to the rest of the franchise now that X-Men Origins: Wolverine is out.  One commentor related the first X-Men movie, Ironman, and the first Spiderman to Star Trek as examples that […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Movies Tagged With: Comics, critique, marvel, Movies, x-men

Inq. of the Week: Watch What you Read?

March 2, 2009 by Bartoneus

This Friday is the release date for the Watchmen movie, and for me now is a good time to be thankful that the lawsuit involving the movie rights didn’t result in this date being pushed back! With that in mind I’m sure we’ll be talking about the movie a lot over the next week or two, and one big thing that I’ve heard a lot about is how many people will see this movie without ever reading or even seeing the comic book.

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: 300, books, Comics, Inquisition of the Week, movie adaptation, Movies, watchmen

Impressions: Baltimore Comic-Con 2008

September 30, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve been to a fair number of conventions, but this past Sunday was my first time going to a strictly comic convention and I have to say the experience was pretty extraordinary.  Several of the other conventions I’ve been to have also been in the Baltimore Convention Center, and as we walked in my first […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured Tagged With: baltimore, baltimore comic con, BCC, comic con, Comics, darwyn cooke, mike mignola, Movies, scott kurtz, webcomics

Inq. of the Week: Who Reads Comics?

September 29, 2008 by Bartoneus

We should have provided an over/under on last week’s poll, I’d be curious to see who would have guessed that 52% of our voting readers are married gamers.  Coming in at second is 28% of you who are gamers and single, 16% are gamers and in relationships, with only 5 votes (3%) in the gamer […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: baltimore, comic con, Comics, Inquisition of the Week, newspaper funnies, webcomics

Watchmen Trailer

July 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

If you haven’t heard yet, the Watchmen trailer is out!  I believe it’s showing before The Dark Knight, in which case I’ll be very excited to see it on the big screen at midnight tonight.  But do you really think you’d have to wait until then to see it, of course not!  You can check it out […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies Tagged With: Comics, dc comics, Movies, the watchmen, the watchmen movie, watchmen, watchmen movie

Watchmen Characters Revealed

March 6, 2008 by Bartoneus

Today is exactly one year until the movie Watchmen is released, and now they’ve released a group of images of what many of the main characters look like.  Head over to the Watchmen site to see all of the glorious full-size shots. I have to say that I think these are perfect, especially the Comedian […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Movies, News Tagged With: Comics, movie, watchmen

Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ’08

February 18, 2008 by Bartoneus

Who would have thought that in such a innuendo laden poll that Portable Hole would be the most popular choice?  Thankfully the Rod of Splendor and Holy Avenger tied at second place, but I was still very surprised that the ever vigilant Immovable Rod didn’t attract more people.  This week we’re all pretty excited after seeing the new […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: batman, Comics, hellboy, indiana jones, iron man, Movies, Narnia, speed racer, summer, the dark knight, wanted

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