I mostly picked up this trade paperback out of my undying love for Ghost Rider. The presence of Wolverine was just an added bonus, really. This trade collects the Wolverine segments of Marvel Comics Presents #62-71. Marvel Comics Presents originally contained four stories per issue, so as a result, each Wolverine segment is rather short (a quarter the length of a regular comic, appropriately). So you’re not really getting ten issues out of the deal, more like four or five at best. For the full review, Click Here! Read more »

It has been eleven years since Goldeneye, the last good James Bond film, in my honest opinion. While the other Pierce Brosnan offerings had their moments, they felt more like generic over-the-top action films with the character of James Bond shoe-horned in as an after-thought, to the point of feeling like a self parody. It’s almost as if the various directors and writers had a checklist of James Bond-related clichés and were marking them off as they went along. Casino Royale changes all that. After a decade of mediocre Bond installments, Casino Royale gets back down to the basics, and by that, I mean the very first Ian Fleming Bond Read more »

Futurama is on its way back with an expected season premier in 2008 as well as some DVD movies and episodes to tide fans over. What to expect? Well, David X. Cohen, writer and producer, spills the beans in an interview with Wizard Entertainment. He doesn’t give too much away, as one would expect, but it looks like the entire cast has been reassembled, as well as most of the creative team. Characters like the Hypnotoad and poor Seymaur the Dog will be making come-backs, as well. Read the interview for yourself! COHEN: Within the new season, we will definitely feature more continuity than in the past. We will also Read more »

Rankin-Bass, outside their stop-motion holiday films, never really reached the same level as Disney or Don Bluth when it came to animated fantasy films. Yet, they did manage to create three of my all-time favorites. And, so, here are my reviews for their three best accomplishments, but sadly, only two of them ar available on DVD. Click on the link to read the full review. The Flight of Dragons Based on the Peter Dickenson book, “the Dragon and George”; ages ago, the worlds of magic and logic lived side by side. However, the mortals of Earth began to choose logic over magic, and as their belief in magic waned, the Read more »

In 1997, the blockbuster film Men in Black hit screens and suddenly became the “Ghostbusters of the 90’s” (just ignore that whole Extreme Ghostbusters thing). Being the huge Ghostbusters fan that I am, I was immediately drawn to Men in Black. Though it carried a similar concept in passing, Men in Black was quite different from my childhood obsession. While the Ghostbusters were a small, four-man operation that was more like a pest control service, the Men in Black were a huge, interplanetary organization with countless members and an extensive history. That year, Sony debuted Men in Black: the Series (let’s start using “MIB” for short). The Series picked up Read more »

In 2004, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original Ghostbusters film, fledgling comic publisher 88MPH Studios released a brand new Ghostbusters comic book miniseries titled “Ghostbusters: Legion”. The book was to be the beginning of a grand Ghostbusters resurgence. However, due to incompetence and fraud on the part of 88MPH Studio, the book floundered despite the art and story quality. However, I’ll get to what killed the Ghostbusters after my review of the book’s actual content. Ghostbusters: Legion is a sequel to the original Ghostbusters film, ignoring both Ghostbusters II and any of the cartoon shows. Additionally, the events of the first Ghostbusters film took place in the Read more »

So the full trailer for the upcoming CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film has been released to the internet… The film looks promising. I didn’t find the jokes very funny, but this is trying to appeal to kids, and they’ll laugh at just about anything. The animation looks gorgeous, on the other hand. The voice acting, from what I can tell, is pretty on the mark. They feel a bit like they’re copying the TV cast (which seems a little pointless) but they sound about right. We’ll see how that turns out. The original villains look cool (hooray ninja monsters!) and Karai, the daughter of the Shredder, has been confirmed Read more »

In the early 90’s, after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles proved to be such a tremendous success, a slew of action cartoons featuring anthropomorphic animal heroes besieged the airwaves. Most of them, whether they were based on pre-existing properties or not, were pretty bad. However, a few shining examples managed to make it through, and probably the best of them all was Swat Kats: the Radical Squadron. Originally premiering in 1993, Swat Kats was one of first original shows on Cartoon Network (which was just getting its feet wet). Regrettably, Swat Kats only lasted two seasons. Yet with only 23 episodes to speak of, Swat Kats managed to create two Read more »

Family Home Entertainment has finally released the sixth volume of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, which unfortunately, doesn’t contain as many classic and memorable episodes as their last offering. This volume features the fourth and final part of season 3, as well as the first episode of season 4. Season 3 was one of the TMNT’s stronger seasons, and according to many fans, supposedly the last good season (though, the show did spike back upward in quality for seasons 7 through 10). While this set does not contain as many gems as Vol. 5, it does have a number of quality episodes, with the three-part season finale being Read more »

I wasn’t fortunate enough to have seen Samurai Pizza Cats when it originally aired. I knew it existed, but I sort of passed it off as yet another anthropomorphic animal action cartoon trying to cash-in on the popularity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (like Street Sharks, Biker Mice from Mars or the COWboys of Moo Mesa). I didn’t give it a fair chance until many years after the initial run, and I have to admit, this show really doesn’t get enough credit. Samurai Pizza Cats was imported from Japan, “translated” (though I use that term loosely) from the original version called Kyattou Ninden Teyandē, which sort of-kind of translates to Read more »