What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – January 2018
I’ve been a bit derelict in reviewing comics, but it’s a new year and I’m trying to be better, so let’s take a look at trades I bought this month!
Month: January 2018
Homicide: Life on the (Former) Set
It’s not often that you get a chance to walk around in your own imagination. When I made an impromptu trip to Baltimore last fall, I knew there was one thing I HAD to do: Visit the building where HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET was shot 25 years ago.
Comics You Should Own – ‘The Umbrella Academy’
Today we’re taking a look at The Umbrella Academy, which many people dismissed as “Morrison-lite,” but which is plenty excellent enough to stand on its own!
Recasting CLUE
Ryan Reynolds has announced that he’s remaking the 1985 cult classic CLUE. While I don’t think that CLUE necessarily needs to be remade, I have to admit it’s an intriguing idea. And heck, if it gets more people to rediscover the 1985 original, that can only be a good thing. I got to wondering how you’d recast CLUE with the stars of today. Here are my choices.
Now Playing at the Hell Plaza Multiplex
Among movies that are bad, there are some that are fun-bad, the unintentional comedies that keep Rifftrax and MST3K in business. And then there are the ones that are just plain bad. Some are so bad that sitting through them becomes an endurance contest, the cinematic equivalent of a dare. I’ve seen plenty of each.
“Are you Guardians simply improvising?” The DC Challenge
DC Challenge is the kind of series where creating an alternate timeline where the Nazis won WW II was meant to simplify the plot. DC launched this 1985-6 twelve-issue limited …
Which Episodes of STAR TREK Are In Continuity?
It’s an interesting question: What episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series are explicitly in continuity because they were referenced in the Trek movies? Could you state that, say, “A Taste Of Armageddon” definitely happened to our heroes because it was referenced in one of the films? Could you find references to the entire television series if you looked hard enough?
It seemed like an interesting challenge. And since I was going through a bout of insomnia when I first read the question, I decided to find out.