Archive for February, 2006

Superhero Film Festival

February 25, 2006, 9:12 am

BeaucoupKevin recently put up a link to a fan made Power Girl film, so I figured I’d see what else was out there. Some of these are good, some are pretty bad.

Power Girl: The Classifieds: Mentioned above. Pretty funny, and the Power Girl actress looks the part.
Grayson: Very nice extended Robin piece. I like [...]

Toys I Wish I Still Had #2: G.I. Joe

February 24, 2006, 6:31 pm

You can’t go wrong with G.I. Joe. No, not the little 4-inch crappy ones with dumb names. The 12-inch mac daddy of toys. The guy who makes Barbie swoon and Ken pee his pants. The guy who wouldn’t bother to fight Cobra Commander because of the latter’s lameness. G.I. Joe ruled when I was a [...]

Always Late Comic Reviews

February 16, 2006, 9:50 pm

I always seem to be behind on reviews. I’ll try and catch up by starting with the few comics I bought this week.

Batman Year 100 #1

I get the idea I’ll be in the minority in not praising this book to high-heaven.

Well, that’s $6 down the toilet. Not that this comic was bad, but for $6, [...]

Power Girl and the Huntress

February 14, 2006, 8:12 pm

Reading through the latest DC solicitations and saw these three covers (click for larger versions):

To me, it looks like the Power Girl/Huntress pair in the last cover, from Superman/Batman #27, are the “real” Power Girl and Huntress: the ones from Earth-2 (note the costume changes compared to the other covers). Once again, DC seems to [...]

Toys I Wish I Still Had #3: Major Matt Mason

February 13, 2006, 7:49 pm

Like many kids, I always wanted to be an astronaut. My love of science-fiction and comic books was born from a love of space and being an astronaut was high on the list of “coolest things to be.” Major Matt Mason was the greatest astronaut toy and was the next best thing to being an [...]