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Marvel’s Contest of Champions brings all of the best Marvel universe...
Review by C.J. Bunce Marvel Contest of Champions is a 2014 mobile fighting game from Kabam, released four years ago on iOS and Android, boasting more than 100 million players. Based on ideas...
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The gang’s all back again as the X-Men assemble in exciting new trailer for...
It’s hard to believe the reboot cast of the X-Men franchise is at its fourth film with this summer’s 20th Century Fox release, Dark Phoenix. Despite delays caused by studio mergers, this last film...
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Planet Comicon to celebrate 20 years with comic book legends Claremont,...
In less than four weeks pop culture convention Planet Comicon Kansas City returns, this time to celebrate its 20th year. Even more than before the event is hosting a pantheon of nationally recognized...
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International trailer for X-Men’s Dark Phoenix gets it right
Ever wonder how the studios make the determination to release one version of a trailer in the U.S. and a different version simultaneously elsewhere? So do we. Language differences aside, a few...
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Final trailer arrives for X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Dark Phoenix represents one of X-Men fans’ favorite classic X-Men stories. We have already seen one take on the Dark Phoenix story, as Famke Janssen’s Jane Grey destroyed everyone she cares about in...
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Dark Phoenix–Ten character posters arrive for penultimate film in the longest...
Does every hero have a dark side? It’s impossible Quicksilver has a dark side. But we’ll find out in five weeks as the 12th film in the longest running superhero movie series sees its...
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All the Marvel Cinematic Universe news from SDCC 2019
Instead of what has been done at past panels at San Diego Comic-Con–having a panel for each or just a few major projects–Marvel Studios exec Kevin Feige was on-hand to get several announcements out...
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New book reveals auteur Ray Harryhausen’s lost scenes and projects that...
Review by C.J. Bunce As in any creative industry, as much as Hollywood is rife with successes, far more projects barely make it past the idea stage. Others make it through preliminary steps only to...
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New trailer–Finally! X-Men origin story The New Mutants is almost here
Disney and Fox have no expectations for this one, so it would be great for X-Men fans to see it in the theater and make known the X-Men are as important to fans as the Avengers, twenty years after the...
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Three new, giant Marvel omnibus editions promise hours of entertainment
If you have a houseful of kids and both spouses at home, all for the first time for longer than a school break, it may start getting… close… soon, especially if you’ve exhausted your collection of...
View ArticlePacked with super mutants, “First Class” really satisfies
X-Men: First Class 2011, 20th Century Fox Running Time: 132 mins MPAA Rating: PG-13 Directed by: Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, Stardust) Starring: James McAvoy (Wanted, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,...
View ArticleMovie tie-ins, the next generation
Cross-promotional marketing is nothing new, whether it’s a tie-in of Coca-Cola and Sony, Pepsi and Michael Jackson’s tour, or a national baseball team and the city’s grocery store chain, we are...
View ArticleThousands attend Midwest’s annual “Planet Comicon” convention
By C.J. Bunce One of the Midwest’s best pop culture and comic book conventions was this past weekend, Planet Comicon, which has been Kansas City’s largest fan convention for more than a dozen years....
View ArticleReview–Avengers vs X-Men, Round One, and tie-in and variant checklists
Review by C.J. Bunce Last week we reported on the early release of eagerly awaited new series Avengers vs. X-Men. With the first issue upon us of Avengers vs X-Men we get to see Round One of the...
View ArticleAuction features Star Wars, Superman, X-Men, and original Battlestar...
Earlier this season Hollywood Treasure, Syfy Channel’s “reality” series about auction house Profiles in History, featured the Dreier family collection of screenused props, costumes and nostalgic toys....
View ArticleCatching up with Avengers vs. X-Men–Round Seven
Now at Round 7 of the ongoing battle, Avengers vs. X-Men has caught up with the plot foreseen in Avengers vs. X-Men Issue #0 reviewed here 100 days ago. When you think of a title like Avengers vs....
View ArticleOriginal Hollywood costumes featured at Comic-Con 2012
By C.J. Bunce It’s no secret that I am a fan of Green Arrow, and in advance of watching the preview to the new CW Network series Arrow and seeing the actors on their panel, I gawked at the new Green...
View ArticleProfiles in History costume and prop prices meet expectations
Earlier this season Hollywood Treasure, Syfy Channel’s “reality” series about auction house Profiles in History, featured the Dreier family collection of screenused props, costumes and nostalgic toys....
View ArticlePreview–The Justice League of America we’ve been waiting for is finally here
Review by C.J. Bunce It was way back in August that we first previewed the very first images of the new Justice League of America here at borg.com. DC Comics has had a big month with big changes–first...
View ArticleActors we can’t get enough of — Ray Park
Kansas City’s Planet Comicon announced today that actor and stuntman Ray Park will be one of the headliners of this year’s event April 6-7, 2013 at the Kansas City Convention Center downtown at Bartle...
View ArticleFirst look–Hugh Jackman returns for his sixth run as The Wolverine
Basically ignoring the first standalone Wolverine film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the new film, simply titled The Wolverine, picks up after Logan/Wolverine’s life was shattered from the events of X-Men:...
View ArticleStuck in a revolving door: Why costumed heroes don’t work in the 21st Century
By Art Schmidt I was having lunch with a friend the other day and we were talking about comic book movies and the slow transition of the formulas for the ones which have succeeded to television format....
View ArticleFirst look–That’s one huge cast in first trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past
For Marvel Comics and X-Men fans, the next in the line of X-Men movies to hit the big screen looks to be an epic production, starring the stars of the first three X-Men and Wolverine movies and the...
View ArticleDays of Future Past–Bryan Singer’s new business card?
Were I Joe Hollywood, that puppet master that controls the destiny of all things in Entertainmentland, who has infinite resources and influence and what he says goes, I’d put Bryan Singer forward as...
View ArticleBryan Singer sets new standard for superhero genre in X-Men: Days of Future Past
Review by C.J. Bunce BOULEVARD DRIVE-IN — It’s hard to believe it has only been six years since Jon Favreau surprised the world, taking a typically underwhelming character like Tony Stark, casting...
View ArticleNeed your own totem? Find heroines aplenty in Funko’s action figure line
The Renaissance of movie and TV tie-in action figures arrived in 2013 with Funko’s classic Kenner-style ReAction figure line. Other companies focus on single licensed figures and getting the...
View ArticleFirst look–Bryan Singer releases epic trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
We’re big fans of Bryan Singer movies, and have always been amazed at how well the Marvel X-Men translated into the films under his guidance. In fact last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past ranks at...
View ArticleNew Marvel “Old Man Logan” series strikes all the right chords
Now in its second issue, Old Man Logan, Marvel’s newest X-Men monthly, tells a familiar story told previously by Mark Millar and Brian Bendis. But it’s a visually compelling jump-on point to a future...
View ArticleFirst look–Villains dominate new poster for X-Men: Apocalypse
Bryan Singer’s next X-Men movie keeps looking better and better. 20th Century Fox released this new poster for this summer’s superhero release, X-Men: Apocalypse, honing in on Oscar Isaac’s villain...
View ArticleReview–X-Men: Apocalypse… Bryan Singer’s X-Men franchise continues to top the...
Amid all the chaos and bombardment of superhero movies in the theaters these days, it’s often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not so long ago if someone asked about your favorite...
View ArticleReview–Another look at Deadpool, the other X-Men movie
Review by C.J. Bunce What Ant-Man was for Marvel Studios’ Avengers franchise, Deadpool is for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise, proving that a good story and good delivery can outperform big budget,...
View ArticleCosplay–More photos from KCCC 2016
The third day of Kansas City Comic Con wrapped with attendees making last-minute purchases, obtaining remaining autographs and photos with celebrities and cosplayers, and picking up sketches and...
View ArticleFirst look–Xavier returns with Old Man Logan to save X-23 in latest X-Men flick
Old Man Logan is one of those great comic book ideas that surprisingly took such a long time to come around. It would be like seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger come back in Conan the Conqueror to play an...
View ArticleOld Man Logan: While you’re waiting for the next X-Men movie
Review by C.J. Bunce Old Man Logan is a 2017 theatrical release we previewed here at borg.com earlier this Fall. Bryan Singer treated us to a sneak peek at this version of Logan aka Wolverine in this...
View ArticleMarvel’s Legion–FX to bring X-Men to television in 2017
It’s interesting that 20th Century Fox is not calling the new FX channel series Legion, X-Men: Legion, although it at least is carrying the X-Men symbol as part of the title art. Netflix’s Marvel...
View ArticleIt’s that time again… The 2016 Annual Borg Hall of Fame Inductees
Masters of the Universe. Red Dwarf. Mortal Kombat. And we revisit Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek. Let’s start this year’s borg.com Hall of Fame ceremony by talking a little about who is NOT in the...
View ArticleLogan–Final trailer for X-Men movie reveals X-Men read their own comics
In 2029, real X-Men read Marvel’s X-Men comic books. Old Man Logan is one of those great comic book ideas that surprisingly took such a long time to come around. It would be like seeing Arnold...
View ArticleNow streaming… X-Men: Apocalypse now on Amazon Prime
Review by C.J. Bunce Superheroes in movies and television. It’s the entertainment explosion of the past ten years, beginning with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man in 2008. Yet after only ten years, after so...
View ArticleLogan: Noir–A better cinematic experience in stunning black and white
Beware the light. Review by C.J. Bunce On first viewing of Logan, this year’s most critically acclaimed superhero film, a viewer may love it or leave it. It’s not your typical Marvel Comics...
View ArticleButtercup, Batman, Barbossa, Buddy, Bond and more–Prop Store lines up giant...
For more than six years we at borg.com have been covering entertainment memorabilia auctions–sales of not merely replicas or mass-produced collectibles, but the real objects seen on film–rare or even...
View ArticleNew Marvel mini-series a surprising, comprehensive history of the X-Men
Most fans of the sixty-year Marvel Comics multi-title property X-Men have been reading X-Men books for years. Hundreds of characters have been woven into more than 8,000 pages and dozens of monthly...
View ArticleDon’t pass up Deadpool 2–another great chapter of X-Men stories on the big...
Review by C.J. Bunce In all the flurry of late spring and early summer movie releases, don’t forget to see that X-Men movie sequel that drifted into theaters with less fanfare than the original two...
View ArticlePreview–Ed Piskor returns tomorrow with next chapter in X-Men: Grand Design,...
Synthesizing and consolidating 30 years of X-Men lore, writer/artist Ed Piskor surprised everyone last year with his first issue of a groundbreaking new series X-Men: Grand Design. With a retro look...
View ArticlePreview–Get your John Byrne and classic X-Men fix with new Artifact Edition...
If you’re curious why a recent news story surfaced about Marvel Comics seeking to get John Byrne to return for some new projects, you need only turn to a new retrospective book arriving at comic book...
View ArticleFirst trailer for Dark Phoenix is here–Will the movie actually make it to...
It must be going forward if 20th Century Fox releases an actual trailer for the movie, right? After the last contract is inked it may very well be that only thirteen “X-Men movies” were ever made,...
View ArticleBattle of the Linguist Mages–A rowdy, rollicking, video game world romp
Review by C.J. Bunce Words are power in Scotto Moore’s expansive, mind-bending first novel, Battle of the Linguist Mages. “Power morphemes” are power itself, punctuation marks are aliens, and nothing...
View ArticleNamor, the Sub-Mariner–Marvel sneaks long-awaited first mutant into the MCU...
He’s certainly the most overdue of 80 years of Marvel characters to make it into the live-action world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, created by writer-artist Bill...
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