By: Zechs  

The Toys are Unleashed.

Will you yield to the dark side as well? Zechs take’s a look at the Force Unleashed wave and the Darth Vader figure from the latest wave of Star Wars: The Legacy line.

With one of the most hyped games of the year about to be pardon the pun unleashed. I was very curious of this wave of Star Wars figures from Hasbro since the previous new molds have piqued my curiosity. So I went out and got myself Battle Damage Darth Vader, Juno Eclipse, Maris Brood, Rahm Kota, and the Shadow Guard. The figures in the line each come with a stand and a cheat to a game that isn’t even out yet. As for the figures themselves. (more…)

By Eli Katz

Writer: Dan Slott
Artist: John Romita, Jr.

Last week I wrote that it was time for grumbling fanboys to get over their contempt for the magic mindwipe and to start buying Amazing Spider-Man again. This week — after reading the first part of Spidey’s big summer story, “New Ways to Die” — I renew my plea.

This book is great. It’s as simple as that. (more…)

For once, I tried to appeal to the masses this week rather than just read *my* top 3 books (OK, so I used one of my top 3, but the other two would’ve normally been after-work reads). Show some appreciation! Or don’t, whichever…here we go:

Appetizer:
Captain America #41 — this book has been so good for so long, and it’s obviously been something that’s been building for pretty much the whole time, and yet now at the very end, I feel like Bru’s lost the reins. With one issue to go, it appears that all this build-up, to the last page “money shot” where Bucky finally fully accepts the mantle of Cap, is going to lead to a conclusion where the Skull’s downfall is due more to his own failure than to Cap’s success. And this book deserves better.

Anywho, Sharon’s baby is dead. The Skull is working on his big mystery plot + trying to separate himself from Lukin, b/c both parties are going insane. (more…)

By: Zechs  

COBRA-LALALALALALALALA*

*Translation Zechs loves the new G.I. Joe vehicle line.

Ah the 1980s. Or how I like to call the period, toy heaven. You had He-Man, Superpowers, MASK, TMNT, Visionaries, Transformers, and numerous other 80s toy lines that made kids whine and cry to their parents that they HAD TO HAVE THESE TOYS. But, there was always one line above all else that where GODS when it came to shelling out stuff.

That was G.I. Joe. (more…)

By Eli Katz

Writer: Marc Guggenheim
Artist: Phil Jimenez

Listen up all you Joe Q-bashing, “One More Day”-hating fanboys. It’s time to get over your contempt for the magic mindwipe and to start reading Amazing Spider-Man again. I’m not saying that ASM is some great, groundbreaking work of genius. It’s not. But after an onslaught of really bad stories with really lame villains (like Freak and Menace), Marvel has finally dropped the “Brand New Day” banner and has started to put out some decent Spidey stories again. (more…)

By Eli Katz

Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Tony Daniel

I imagine if David Lynch wrote a Batman story, he would produce something like R.I.P.: a hallucinogenic nightmare where ghosts and gargoyles and dwarf-like bat creatures talk with greater coherence than the hero himself. Of course, representations of madness are nothing new in Batman books. Ever since the Joker made his first appearance back in 1940, the Dark Knight has had to deal with a steady stream of lunatics. (more…)

The Corps Are Assembling.

The newest wave of Green Lantern figures, Series 3 is out and are the latest bunch of figures from DC Direct. The figures included in this set cover pretty much the biggest highlights of the past two years of GL stories GL Batman (from Hal and Bruce’s team up in GL #9), Star Sapphire (from GL #18-20), Sinestro, and the Cyborg Superman (both in their respective costumes from the GL event “The Sinestro Corps War”). (more…)