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Review: Modern Warfare 3: A Critical Perspective On FPS’s In General
FPS’s Suck and These are the Reasons WhyA Video Game Review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3By: Lawrence Napoli [[wysiwyg_imageupload:602:]]How do I hate thee, FPS (First Person Shooter)? Let me count the ways: One, for the ignorant masses you attract like moths to the flame. Two, for your lack of innovation. Three, for the shameless…
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When the Blair Witch Meets Akira: A Film Review of Chronicle
When the Blair Witch Meets AkiraA Film Review of ChronicleBy: Lawrence Napoli [[wysiwyg_imageupload:594:]]Chronicle is the most realistic depiction of every nerd’s, comic book fan’s, sci-fi aficionado’s and disenfranchised youth’s unadulterated wet dream come true. Kudos to this film’s trailers for doing exactly what they should: get the idea of the film across without spoiling the story…
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The “DOC’s” Top Of The Pile for February 1st, 2012
The “DOC’s” Top Of The PileBy: Chris “DOC” Bushley(A weekly quick pick of the five books that should reside on the top of your pull list. In no particular order!) I do the research, you reap the rewards! Before you head out to your favorite shop today, be sure to add these titles to your list of…
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Review: Swamp Thing #6
This is the day the world dies! No one can withstand the Rot, it has chosen it’s Black Queen and she will rule the very fabric of reality!Snyder’s darkest book to date, Swamp Thing #5, is a complete assault to the senses. Visually traumatic and emotionally jarring, it will nest itself within the recesses of…
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Review: Fatale #2
Josephine is running out of time. That’s something she never thought would happen, but this is the endgame. The players are finally all in motion and the stakes are high. Especially for someone who has lived as long as she has!The crime noir Holy Trinity of Brubaker, Phillips and Stewart have created something that is…
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The “DOC’s” Top Of The Comic Book Pile For January 25th, 2012
The “DOC’s” Top Of The PileBy: Chris “DOC” Bushley(A weekly quick pick of the five books that should reside at the top of your pull list! In no particular order!) [[wysiwyg_imageupload:507:]]I do the research, you reap the rewards! Before you head out to your favorite shop today, make sure you add these titles to your list of…
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Review: Justice League #5
Destruction rains down wherever the eye can see. Creatures from another world soar through the air, causing chaos to the very fabric of the earth. All this, the pain, the suffering, is being done on the breath of a single name — Darkseid!Johns and Lee pit our newly formed heroes against one of the greatest…
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Review: American Vampire #23
Travis is a young man with a lot of likes. He likes fast cars, records by The Nocturnes, he likes girls in poodle skirts and cigarettes. Like I said, he has a lot of likes. But he only has one love. The love of killing vampires!Chapter two of the “Death Race” storyline comes out of…
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Review: Teen Titans #5
Just like their older counterparts, the Justice League, the Teen Titans must face a dire threat while the team is still in it’s infancy. But at least the Titans know who they are fighting against, not that it will help them much!N.O.W.H.E.R.E., an international organization that has been collecting young metahumans for unknown reasons, has…
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Advanced Review: Superior #7 (of 7)
Simon Pooni was just your average boy. Smart, outgoing, captain of the basketball team, but one day his whole world changed when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. A ravaged body left him in a wheelchair, broken but not beaten. His world had been changed once already — soon it would change again!Mark Millar gives…
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Movie Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Year of the DragonA Film Review of The Girl with the Dragon TattooBy: Lawrence Napoli [[wysiwyg_imageupload:383:]]As we enter the new year of the Dragon, this film will still be running strong in theatres in 2012, and I cannot forward a more immediate recommendation to my readers than to check out The Girl with the Dragon…
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Advanced Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #4
The repercussions from Rick Remender’s current Age of Apocalypse storyline, in Uncanny X-Force, make their way into Jason Aaron’s phenomenal book.Genesis has been enrolled as a student, Angel believes he is something more than a mutant, and Deathlok’s choice to be a guest speaker, has some startling effects! I have said it before, but it…
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Advanced Review: Scarlet Spider #1
Let me begin by saying, I have not read a Spider-Man book since Erick Larson left Amazing Spider-Man with issue #350. It just seemed like too much effort to follow a single character throughout WAY too many books. Too little bang for the buck, as they say.But when Marvel released information at this years NYCC,…
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2011: A Year In Review
2011: A Year In ReviewBy: Chris “DOC” Bushley THE “DOC” I have finally worked through my Holiday coma that was induced by a combination of turkey, sugar cookies and egg nog, and found that it was time to look back on the year 2011. And since this will be the last “Year in Review” I will…
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Review: Animal Man #5
I’m just going to throw this out there — THIS BOOK IS COMPLETELY INSANE! And I love every single moment of it!Jeff Lemire and his entire artistic crew have created something that is equal parts disturbing and fascinating. A cornucopia of twistedness that assaults the senses, Animal Man is a book that is beyond expectations…
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Review: Uncanny X-Force #19.1
Enter Now: The Age of Apocalypse! Nuff’ said!Remender’s Uncanny X-Force #19.1 is the set up issue for Age of Apocalypse, which debuts on March 7th. And like most “set up” issues, Remender lays the landscape wide open for us as to what we will expect from the regular series. If this new series is half…
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Review: Avengers X-Sanction #2
Falcon has been taken down from above and Captain America has been beaten into submission. Next on Cable’s hit list? Iron Man!Issue one ended with Cap and Cable fighting each other, with Cap losing at gunpoint. The final panel has a resounding “BLAM!” across it and you are left pondering the fate of America’s star…
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Mark Millar: “Is the Big Two about to become the Big Three?”
“Is the Big Two about to become the Big Three?” That’s the question Mark Millar poses during his Millarworld Editorial in the pages of Kick-Ass 2 #6. And with the lineup he’s bringing to Millarworld in 2012 — he damn well has a shot! According to Mr. Millar, 2012 will see some HUGE books coming out, but…
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Review: Invincible #86
Marvel Cosmic has been eating DC’s spacedust for months. Now add Image to the list of publishers leaving Marvel behind in the spacedust.Invincible #86 will be a delight to any cosmic fan. The showdown between Nolan and Allen comes to a head with the fate of all life on Earth in the balance. Oliver plays…
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Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Game’s a Foot!A Film Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of ShadowsBy: Lawrence Napoli [[wysiwyg_imageupload:267:]]Who doesn’t love a good mystery? It is a question that reveals mankind’s innate curiosity with the unknown or unfamiliar in order to identify the variables and explain the inexplicable so as to allow ourselves to be comfortable in our own…