Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #7: Superboy edited by Julius Schwartz With the success of Superman as a character and a cash cow, it was pretty much inevitable that the comic book company would find ways to expand the franchise. Thus in 1944, Jerry Siegel was convinced to create tales of Superboy, Superman… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #7: Superboy
Tag: superheroes
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider First, let’s talk about Kamen Rider. It’s a children’s superhero television show that started airing in 1971 in Japan. In it, the evil organization Shocker, founded by surviving Nazis and their collaborators, wants to take over the world. To do so, they used cybernetic and… Continue reading Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500 edited by Nicola Cuti For this milestone issue of the anthology comic book in digest form, DC decided to go with the most popular feature, all Legion of Super-Heroes stories! “The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire” story by Jerry Siegel, art by John Forte, opens with a reminder that… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #500
Movie Review: Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Movie Review: Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) directed by Curt Geda Gotham City is once again the scene of crime. In this case, Oswald “Penguin” Cobblepot, Rupert “Boss” Thorne and Carlton “I’ve Been Here All Along” DuQuesne, three crimelords, have joined forces in an arms smuggling deal. It’s perhaps not surprising when a bat-winged silhouette… Continue reading Movie Review: Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #14: Batman’s Villains
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #14: Batman’s Villains edited by Dick Giordano One of the things that has kept Batman a popular superhero over the many years of his existence is that he has a good rogues’ gallery, a set of colorful recurring villains that drive fun stories for the Caped Crusader. This… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #14: Batman’s Villains
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #26: The Brave and the Bold
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #26: The Brave and the Bold edited by Mike W. Barr Before The Brave and the Bold became an all-Batman team-up book, it was an adventure comic book series that featured multiple action-oriented characters. This digest reprints five of those features, plus a Batman team-up because that was… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #26: The Brave and the Bold
Movie Review: Spy Smasher
Movie Review: Spy Smasher (1942) directed by William Witney Alan Armstrong (Kane Richmond) was an American journalist working in France when Germany invaded. Unable to stay neutral, Alan faked his own death so he could operate as freelance operative Spy Smasher. As our story opens, Spy Smasher is captured by the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to… Continue reading Movie Review: Spy Smasher
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493
Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493 edited by Carl Gafford It’s time for another Adventure Comics digest, though the cover is somewhat misleading. “When Destiny Calls!” story by Bob Rozakis, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Andy Mushynsky, is what it purports to be, a revised retelling of the origin of the Challengers of the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Adventure Comics #493
Comic Book Review: Young Justice: Targets
Comic Book Review: Young Justice: Targets written by Greg Weisman, art by Christopher Jones Young Justice was originally a DC comic book series starring a team of their youngest active superheroes at the time. Then the title was also used for an animated TV series starting in 2010. It didn’t directly adapt the comic books,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Young Justice: Targets
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics
Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics edited by Len Wein Detective Comics is one of DC’s longest-running comic book series, and indeed, they’re named after it. While it’s best known as the birthplace of Batman, over the years it’s hosted several other features involving some form of detection or mystery solving.… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Best of DC #30: Detective Comics