Superman

In an effort to critique the overblown devastation seen in the recently released “Man of Steel” movie, American cartoonist and comic book writer Kyle John Baker created a web browser game that mocks the film’s ridiculous destruction.

The boys from The Bastardcast are back and this time they’re talking ALL about ‘The Man of Steel’ with Blastr writer Matthew Jackson. Did Superman soar or suck? Listen to their take.

Man of Steel tries to tell an interesting origin story, but gives us a mess instead. The film is inconsistent with its rules, spends too much time explaining everything, and takes too long to tell an origin story.

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 …
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Scott Snyder has worked his way to the top of the creative heap at DC Comics with his work on Batman, Swamp Thing and the breakout Vertigo hit, American Vampire. Now Snyder is handling writing chores on Vertigo’s hot release”The Wake” with Sean Murphy and helming DC’s big summer launch, “Superman: Unchained. NerdSpan sat down with the writer and teacher to find out more about his newest superhero book.

British actor Henry Cavill does a fine job donning the red cape. With Zack Snyder directing and David Goyer and Chris Nolan writing the script, Man of Steel is sure to please all audiences.

Scott Snyder and Jim Lee’s Superman Unchained #1 is hitting stands at just the right time. Never mind that movie that’s coming out later this week – it’s a given …
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I always associate Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns with Peter Jackson’s 2005 redo of King Kong: both were new takes on classic franchises, both were expensive vanity projects from high-powered …
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When the once-proud Superman franchise has fallen into the hands of producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, you know the glory days are over…or, depending on your taste for …
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It’s hard to believe that there’s a Superman movie out there that features both a rogue supercomputer and a twisted, evil duplicate of the Man of Steel, yet doesn’t …
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Watching Superman II as a kid, I was unaware of any of the behind-the-scenes drama that afflicted the production—director Richard Donner was let go after several clashes …
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There’s a tendency over the last decade or so for a segment of fandom to write off Superman: The Movie as a quaint, dated relic of the pre-Marvel Studios, …
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