HEY, KIDS! COMICS! VELVET #8

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! VELVET #8

By Andrew P. Stevens. Image Comics’ Velvet launches issue #8 immediately after last month’s cliffhanger, and moves us deeper inside the dark mirrored corridor that is this espionage story. Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, and Elizabeth Breitweiser further display...

TUBE ROCKET: GOTHAM

Season One, Episode Seven – “Penguin’s Umbrella” By Matt Fleming. Okay, Gotham. You asked a lot of me, the viewer. You asked me to let a young Bruce Wayne grow into a Dark Knight. You asked me to sit through quite a bit of Jim Gordon’s...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WONDER WOMAN #35

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WONDER WOMAN #35

By Molly Jane Kremer. As the final chapter in one of the New52’s most well-received series, Brian Azzarello’s and Cliff Chiang’s Wonder Woman ends this week with issue #35. Both men have worked on the book since the series (and the entire DC Universe) relaunched in...

NIGHTCRAWLER

By Donna Bourgois. Everyone loves the classic American Dream story. The American Dream isn’t so far back that we can’t dig through years of #thestruggle to find our roots. I’m sure we aren’t so completely jaded as a society, that we can’t remember stories of our...

UNCULTURED: TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE

By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we shamelessly promote and defend some of the worst films ever made. This week’s installment features the star-studded horror anthology, Tales From the Darkside: The Movie. Who doesn’t remember...

ST. VINCENT

By Kyle G. King. If you’re hoping to cast Bill Murray in your movie, you have to call a 1-800 number, pitch your script to his voicemail, and keep your fingers crossed. Murray has earned the privilege to be selective about his roles and let’s face it, to be that...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! RASPUTIN #1

By Andrew P. Stevens. The deck was already stacked against Alex Grecian’s Rasputin, not because of any politics within the comic book industry, but because of something he says in the back of issue #1, “I’ve tried to write about Grigori Rasputin before.” It’s a...