Marvel Vs. Capcom 3′s biggest achievement doesn’t come in the graphics department, though the visuals are stunning. Nor is it in gameplay, despite the fact that it sports a sharp and well-tuned fighting engine.
If fighting games have taught us anything, it’s that any dispute can solved with a roundhouse kick.
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk talk about The Invincible Iron Man #500, Supergirl #60 and Wolverine and Jubilee #1.
Here’s a sign that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wolverine – AKA, Fox’s second solo Wolverine movie, spinning out of the first three X-Men movies – will probably have a difficult but fascinating birthing process, even if the finished product doesn’t quite work: The director has claimed that it will have “nothing to do” with either X-Men [...]
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse, Mike Williams, Lev Grossman and Graeme McMillan discuss Love & Rockets: New Stories, vol. 3 and X-23 #1.
When you make your way to your Local Comic Shop this Thursday you should really bring a list. Experts agree that you shouldn’t buy comics when you’re hungry for nostalgic war stories or the exploits of a boozed up astronaut. With that in mind here are some titles to keep an eye on and as [...]
In honor of Machete, we’re counting down the top ten men and women who fight with sharp, pointy sticks that can slice and dice. From the obvious Machete to Wolverine, some of our favorite over-the-top action stars have got downright dirty with the precision blade. Even though a knife or a sword isn’t exactly high [...]
Wolverine #1 comes out this week–but it’s far from the first time the diminutive Canadian mutant with the big sharp claws has launched a series of his own, and it won’t be the last, either. Here’s a quick timeline of the many debuts of Wolverine.
I can’t be the only person surprised at the rumor that Requiem For A Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky is in the running to direct the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, can I? Sure, I know that Aronofosky was, for awhile, planning a reboot of the Robocop franchise for MGM, and also that he’s a comic fan – His The Fountain was a graphic novel as well as a movie – but nonetheless, the idea that he’d happily slide into not only a superhero franchise he doesn’t control, but do so in a sequel to a movie that was, to be kind, not too sucky, somehow seems just plain wrong. Isn’t he… you know… too good for this kind of thing?
While Diamond may be delivering comics earlier in the week in 2011 we’ve still got some soldiering to do here in the ten. Here is your list of new comics for the week. There are some interesting things happening here. Wolverine might be trying to take back his title from Deadpool and there’s a new [...]
It’s got to be nice to be Ryan Reynolds these days, with Green Lantern, Deadpool, RIPD and now Safe House lined up for his future. But is he in danger of Next Big Thing status?
