Friday Favorites: Comics and Music

| August 16, 2013

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Welcome to the first edition of NerdSpan’s Friday Favorites, a weekly list of some of our favorite things featuring NerdSpan writers and special guests. Long before I wrote about comic books I was writing about music, so it seemed natural to kick this series off by combining the two. We see music crossover into comics […]

Movie Review: Man Of Steel (2013)

| June 15, 2013

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If the Dark Knight trilogy is Christopher Nolan’s gritty, street level, crime-drama version of the Batman epic, then Man Of Steel (which Nolan produced) is director Zack (Watchmen) Snyder’s crazy, science-fiction version of the Superman legend, in which the Man Of Tomorrow’s formative adventure is presented through the lens of a full-on alien invasion disaster […]

Comic Review: Jupiter’s Legacy #1

| April 25, 2013

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The last time Mark Millar and Frank Quitely teamed up, they took the reins of The Authority from Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, seemingly hellbent on outdoing their predecessors in city-destroying, mass-casualty mayhem. Their work together on that book put the previously obscure Millar on the map, establishing him as the go-to guy for taking […]