If Avengers #1 was essentially Jonathan Hickman laying out his ambitious ideas for the series, then issue two is where Hickman explains his thought process behind it. Not only do we see how Tony Stark and Steve Rogers went about building a bigger and better Avengers team, we’re given a better look at Ex Nihlo and his plans for Earth. With this and some of the previous issue’s problems resolved, Avengers #2 should have been a clear winner.
Read More
Avengers #1
“Wake the World”
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Jerome Opeña
Retails for $3.99
“We need to get bigger”, Tony Stark said to Steve Rogers …
Read More
Set on the RMS Titanic, Theodor Weiss, is carrying the key to the zombie apocalypse, a black like substance called, “The Toxic.” When the Toxic is stolen by a German agent and the virus is released onto the ship’s lower deck, a team of strangers come together to try and stop the disease from spreading. Onion Contributors, Chris Pauls and Matt Solomon, have managed in their novel to not only blend together multiple historical events but also to give a new take on certain zombie conventions.
Read More
Search engines these days don’t rely on tags as much as many people think they do, but they do still matter. Capitalize words correctly. Only use tags that are logically related to your post. Don’t use irrelevant tags. Help readers who would really be interested in your material discover it.
Read More
“Doctor Who” stars Matt Smith (L) and Jenna-Louise Coleman in “The Snowmen.” Via Digital Spy.
Change is all over the air in this year’s Christmas installment of Doctor Who. For his latest trick, Steven Moffat asks us to go from The Girl Who Waited to a girl interrupted. That part’s easy. But oddly enough, the amuse bouche for the show’s latest storyarc comes off a bit undercooked.
Spoilers ahead, so beware under the cut.
Read More
“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” and “Andromeda” star Kevin Sorbo discusses heroism and his career in front of an audience at Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con. He recounts how suffering strokes that left him partially blind during Hercules changed his point of his view and over time redefined how he measured success.
Read More
A who’s who of the baddest mofos to ever walk the Earth. From hand-to-hand combat to military and political strategists, these people were not to be messed with on or off the battlefield. Men who were more dangerous than most predatory animals. Women who were MORE dangerous than THOSE guys. Read it. Learn something. Enjoy it. Repeat.
Read More
11/22/63 is Stephen King’s superbly researched romantic conspiracy epic. Schoolteacher, Jake Epping has the opportunity to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy and change the course of history. It entertains and enthrals but could have gone deeper into the moral issues of that period in history (and using time travel to change the world).
Read More
Superherologist Travis Langley, author of Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight asks, “What can a god-like extraterrestrial teach real humans?” Can you in any way live up to the example set by a strange visitor from another planet, a man who’s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?
Read More
The Night Circus, Erin Morgensten’s debut novel, is a fantasy tale set in the 19th century. It centers around a magical circus that serves as the stage for a showdown for two rivals where their proteges, Marco and Celia, must compete in a potentially deadly game with vague rules that neither of them understand, but only one can win.
Read More
From YouTube: “Guardians of the Galaxy might be hitting theaters in 2014, but it’s making headlines today thanks to James Gunn! Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph tells you about his controversial website poll and post that have angered many fans, particularly women, who have demanded he be fired!”
Read More
Your bio should probably be three or four sentences long, not a whole essay that your readers will get tired of seeing every time they read one of your articles. Sentences! Don’t just list bits and pieces of information, at least not until the end of your bio. Write it in third person. Overuse of first person is too blog-like. […]
Read More