Bad Romance: Astonishing X-Men #44

Yes, they do kiss. No, I don't know if they're using tongue.

Astonishing X-Men begins anew with the brilliant Greg Pak and the talented Mike McKone taking on the reins in the aftermath of Schism with issue #44. Yes, despite not being officially a part of the eight book X-Men family ‘relaunch’, the title’s continuity is up to date with the first few pages dealing with Cyclops’ recovery [...]

Mel’s Muses: Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #1, Swamp Thing #1 and Animal Man #1

The first wave of the new DC 52 Universe titles has hit our shelves and sold out faster than The Flash changing his underwear. All are already headed for second printing right now. To me, some stories turned out better than I expected while others didn’t exactly live up to the hype. So here are [...]

Death Valley: Ups and Downs

Death Valley intertitle

On the heels of MTV’s surprise hit Teen Wolf, the network everybody loves to hate has tried to get lightning to strike twice with its comedy supernatural horror mockumentary Death Valley. This COPS spoof follows six members of the Undead Task Force (UTF), a team of police officers whose speciality are the supernatural creatures haunting San [...]

Captain America #1: New Epic, New Nemesis, Same Genius

With Captain America: The First Avenger hitting screens in the US at the end of this week (and Singapore screens two weeks later), there’s no better time to be a fan of the Star Spangled Avenger. It has been over five years since I last held a Captain America #1, but thanks to the movie, [...]

Alphas: Adequate, Alright, Acceptable

Alphas Title Screen

While there has been no better time to release a superhero movie than these past few years, the same cannot be said for a superhero television series. The once-lauded series Heroes, featuring normal people being suddenly given superpowers, began to meander just as they reached their first season finale back in 2007, and it was finally cancelled on May 14, [...]

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