Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, Marvel kicked off an all-new Doctor Strange series with a more grounded, approachable take on the most powerful magician in this reality. But they also published a collection of the character’s 1980s stories on the same day. Looking at both releases shows just how much the Sorcerer Supreme has changed. Doctor Strange: Don’t…
Look, up in the sky! A Superman who’s still married! A Lois Lane who didn’t expose Clark Kent’s secret identity to the world! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! This is all happening in the newly re-rebooted DC Universe, where there’s another weaker Clark Kent leaping tall buildings. What the heck is going on?…
Inside Mattel’s headquarters just south of Los Angeles International Airport, Christine Kim grabs a shield and fires a plastic disc from it across a conference room. “I’m going to be playing with all my boys, deflecting their bullets and then be like, ‘I’m going to shoot you,’” says Kim, one of Mattel’s top toy designers and a…
Z-Men, set in the universe of the classic Night of the Living Dead, is getting a major movie adaptation from Lionsgate! Source: Press Release Ah, the circle of life. Man creates beloved cult-classic movie. Half a century later, comic book publisher creates ten ongoing series set in the universe of the movie. Shortly thereafter, movie…
“Captain America is only interesting if he’s a prick,” Vulture recently declared, inspiring so many angry Marvel fan rebuttals that it probably qualified as outright click bait. Of course, the idea of Captain America as “boring” has already been debunked by the $580 million his new movie just made at the box office. What we’re really talking…
By Tim Carmody on October 11th, 2015 Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is now rich. In the comics, Peter Parker—once a schlubby, penny-pinching student, freelance photographer, and amateur scientist from the modest side of Forest Hills, Queens—is now the founder and CEO of Parker Industries, a global consumer technology company akin to Batman’s Wayne Enterprises or…
Long ago, humans thrived in the great city, using golem-like demons to do their bidding. But after the demons rebelled, they forced humans to abandon the city and live on the fringes, dreaming of the day they’d reclaim their home. Peter Wartman’s webcomic Stonebreaker and its prequel Over the Wall focus on Anya, a young…
Long before Vin Diesel was Groot, he teased fans about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So few thought saying a few words as a talking tree would be enough for the star. In a new interview with io9, Diesel teased something very different could be on the horizon. First of all, the actor explained that…
INFOLINKS_ON Those wondering when some Frank Miller art from “Dark Knight III: The Master Race” would surface need wonder no more. DC Comics has released Miller’s cover to the minicomic that will be bundled with the first issue, starring the Atom — and as evidenced by the cover, Superman as well. Each issue of “Dark…
I was kind of hoping to write a review of the Avengers: Age of Ultron DVD/Blu-Ray that went something like, “If you were one of the people who didn’t love the Avengers sequel, this new DVD will change your mind.” Alas, I can’t write that, because it’s probably not true. Avengers: Age of Ultron was…