In a year that is rather heavy with the spy genre flicks; Spy, Kingsmen: The Secret Service, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and, this Christmas, the latest James Bond film, how is one supposed to stand out from the other? Well, having the amazing Guy Ritchie as a director sure helps. His latest movie is The
It’s human nature to want to know what’s the point of something. What does it mean, where’s it going, why does it exist? This happens a lot when reading books; you try to figure out where the plot’s taking you, what’s the message in the end. Sometimes that’ll just frustrate you. Certainly it did for
The fairy tale of Cinderella has been re-told dozens of times, if not hundreds. I’d be willing to bet not many of those versions have androids, hovercrafts, and the part of Cinderella being played by a cyborg in a future version of Beijing where cyborgs are social pariahs. Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is a tale of
“Game Over,” that’s a phrase I haven’t heard in a while. I’m not trying to toot my own horn but usually when I play a game I really enjoy, I tend to figure out how not to die or fail in them. And then came Velocibox, a twitch-based endless runner that puts you in control of
To say DC Animation has and continues to have a huge impact on my life would be a bit of an understatement. While I may have made a bit of departure from the DC Comics Universe during its New 52 tenure, the TV and Animation departments have certainly picked up the slack. That’s not saying
A lot of people think the “Vampire Bubble” may have burst (Vampire Diaries seems to be gearing up for its final season, True Blood is already gone, Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Dracula never got off the ground) and that zombies have taken their place in that part of geek culture that wants to be scared by
I’ve been attending San Diego Comic Con International since the late 90s and there is one booth that always seems to be the first stop. The Hasbro booth is not only one of the largest booths, but you can’t help but stop and admire the rather large collection of Transformers as they are more then meets
People tossed around words like “collapse of civilization” and “post-apocalyptic,” but really everything was the same mess as always. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey wrap up their Apocalypse Triptych with 22 tales of the people who survive the destruction of civilization. And if you thought the lead-up to the end of the world was dark, this collection
This week IDW released the eagerly-awaited Combiner Hunters One-Shot, pitting Windblade and Chromia against Arcee, at least until something bigger comes along. Was it worth the hype? Click the jump for preview pages and a review!