No matter what you think of the quality of his work (especially the recent stuff), Geoff Johns is a bonafide comics superstar. He reinvented Green Lantern, had a long successful run on The Flash, returned the Justice Society of America and Hawkman to prominence, and shit all over his legacy with whatever the hell Doomsday
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The X-Men film series has run an impressive 19 years without a hard reboot. To contrast, Spider-Man has rebooted twice in that time and so has Batman. It’s for this reason that X-Men remains something of a throwback to the old manner of adapting comic books to film. In the early 2000s it was conventional
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I read a lot of comics. I don’t know why I do; they’re expensive and often times not very good. I suppose it’s an addiction like drinking or heroin, only in this case it costs more and the high is a lot less satisfying. One of the reasons it’s not satisfying is that for the
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Of course everybody loves our Marvel heroes…Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, etc. But to the mass movie going audience, even some of these now cinema staples were obscure comic book creations less than a decade ago. To a comic book nerd, the heroes that make up the cinematic Avengers are old
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When I was nine years old, I had the first of what would be many cavities filled. I got to stay home from school that day, and spent most of my time crying in my room because my perfect dental record was now marred (oh, if only I’d known then). I remember my dad coming
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