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Comic of the Week: Action Comics Future’s End
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED In my entire life I’ve never cried at a movie or about a book or any work of fiction for that matter, until this past week. Believe it or not I was legitimately moved and almost got choked up over a comic book. But I’m getting a head…
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Trench reviews Superman vs. The Elite
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the DC Animated movies. I think their work is better than the comics and live-action movies. However when I read the description of Superman vs. The Elite I thought I was going to hate it. Basically, the concept of the movie is Superman still relevant in…
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Review of Action Comics #900: Superman renounces US citizenship
There was a minor kerfuffle recently when the news came out that in the comics Superman was going to renounce his US citizenship. This outraged some as Supes is supposed to stand for truth, justice, and the American way. I’ll have to admit even I had a modicum of outrage over this. That was until…
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Review of All Star Superman DVD
Let me preface this by saying I was not a fan of the All-Star Superman series of comics. I personally thought that it highlighted everything that has been wrong with the Superman franchise in the last 70 years. With that in mind, I was not happy to hear that the latest release in the series…
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Review of Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam
When I was a little kid I loved Superman. I watched the old black and white TV shows and all the cartoons. I wanted to be Superman so bad. Then one day while someone from my family was in the hospital I saw a comic book in the hospital gift shop. It was called Shazam…
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Superman: Doomsday
So I watched the animated Superman: Doomsday today and it kicked ass. This is the movie that Superman Returns should have been. Lots of Superman smashing the crap out of stuff. It’s based on The Death of Superman storyline which I never read so I can’t tell you how accurate it was. One warning though,…