Review–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...
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...
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...
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 ArticleAnother look at Deadpool–the other X-Men movie
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, team-up...
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...
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