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Let’s Talk About Superhero Movies

June 16, 2011 by Bartoneus

I know a few people who are getting sick of superhero and comic book movies, and with good reason considering this year’s offering of Thor, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, and Captain America to name a few. Back when I was extremely young you could still consider superhero movies to be a new thing, but here in 2011 we have more comic book movies than I could have ever dreamed possible as an adolescent. You’ll notice I use the terms “superhero” and “comic book” interchangeably here, but that is simply for ease of use – rest assured I am well aware of the inherent differences and that there are non-comic book superhero movies and non-superhero comic book movies.

Filed Under: Comics, Movies, The Architect DM Tagged With: avengers, batman, green lantern, superman, thor, x-men, x-men: first class

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: Summer Movies ’09

April 7, 2009 by Bartoneus

Last week The Main Event posted an Inquisition on a topic that I love to discuss, power creep in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.  With people voting on which parts of the PHB2 they thought most displayed power creep, 42% of you actually don’t think there’s much power creep in the book at all!  In […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies Tagged With: GI Joe, harry potter, Inquisition of the Week, star trek, summer movies, terminator, Transformers, wolverine, x-men

Messiah CompleX: Not Quite the Second Coming (Non-Spoiler)

October 31, 2007 by The Main Event

General: When Jesus was born, there were wise kings, gifts, angelic visits, and immaculate conceptions. When the X-Office at Marvel kicked off its brand new crossover Messiah CompleX, they hired old artist Marc Silvestri , released tons of interviews with major comic book industry entities, discussed tidbits about the X-Men status quo after the event, […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Reviews Tagged With: marvel, x-men

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