It’s tough to create and maintain a superhero universe. That’s why there are only two successful long running examples, and even then counting DC as a success is being generous. Marvel’s Ultimate imprint had its heyday and did a lot of good. It revitalized moribund characters for the 21st century, influenced feature films and launched the
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I’m back! It feels like a lifetime ago that I would unearth an hour from the Law & Order universe and give it a thorough examination. I admit part of the reason it’s been so long is that I don’t actually watch SVU anymore. A shocking admission to be sure, but I have my reasons. Its
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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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There’s a new Ninja Turtles cartoon in town and that means Ronnie and Jazz are going to complain about it! For this April Fool’s holiday enjoy a podcast – recorded months ago and unearthed today – about Nickelodeon’s latest shitty permutation of Eastman and Laird’s cash cow. What differentiates this from the last one? Where’s
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It’s Jazz’s birthday! Well, it was, when we were recording this. As such, the top of the episode contains a review of the hosts’ field trip to see M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass. It sucked and yet was infinitely better than the podcast’s first foray into Season 12, a season so bad it made people miss
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