After seeing this film one of my friends made the innocuous comment “That was pretty good but almost all of it was scientifically impossible” to which I replied “What were you expecting? Its called Mission: Impossible. Not Mission: Scientifically Accurate”. In a nutshell that is the main draw of the Mission: Impossible franchise, they’re big, crazy and kind of stupid, but you get the feeling that the people making the film know that and are really just going out of they’re way to make an enjoyable action film. If nothing else Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is most definitely that….
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I’ve found that when it comes to Hack/Slash your either a fan or your not, nobody really falls in between. Incidentally the same can be said for the Hatchet series of horror films starring everybody’s favorite Jason Voorhees knock off Victor Crowley. Now whereas I am very much a fan of Hack/Slash, I have always been a bit lukewarm towards Hatchet. Still, when I heard that both of these decisive titles in the world of horror were going to be occupying the same thirty six pages of sequential splatter action I knew I had to check it out. For the…
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Is there any meat left on the shambling corpse of the zombie genre?  Because Boom Studios/Evil Ink Comics newest mini-series Key of Z certainly makes a compelling case that there is. Granted a lot of comic fans, myself included, believe that after The Walking Dead no other comic series can possibly do anything with zombies that hasn’t been done yet or done better. Which is why whenever I see a solicitation for a high concept zombie tale I always make sure to pick it up. Good or bad high concepts are good for comics, but the amazing thing about Key…
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I always thought Haunt was a weird title to come out of Image. Alright, maybe not weird that it was coming out of Image, but weird that it was coming out of Image at this point in its history. In the last few years Image has proven itself as the place to go to find innovative and challenging creator owned books such as The Walking Dead, I Kill Giants, and Chew after growing up from its original incarnation as a sort of skater punk artist studio. Original Image titles such as Spawn and Savage Dragon are being published (and depending who…
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For better or worse, you can thank Ghostbusters for the ginger haired caffeine addicted bearded wonder you see typing before you. Viewing it for the first time all those years ago was one of the more profound “ah HA!” moments I have had over the course of my life, acting as the catalyst for the comedy nerd I was in high school and the horror hound I have become over the last couple of years. For those reasons, you can understand why I was a little hesitant when IDW announced they were making an ongoing Ghostbusters comic. I read the…
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It can’t be easy being a werewolf in popular culture. Whereas their blood sucking pointy fanged brethren have invaded movies, television and comics the lycanthrope has languished. Sure they have a couple of notable contributions under there belt: An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and Wolf (Which is awesome until the last thirty minutes) but those are films. What about comics? If I dig deep I can think of two off the top of my head: Marvel’s Werewolf by Night and Archaia’s recent miniseries Feeding Ground. Now Famous Monsters of Film Land is adding to this furry little corner…
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Chris Sims isn’t a name everyone is familiar with, but those of us who know him are generally big fans. Having started out blogging over at his personal site The Invincible Super Blog and eventually being hired by AOL’s Comics Alliance, Sims has made a name for himself for both being the Internet’s foremost Batmanologist and ripping apart comics that can at best be described as supremely lame. Sims also creates his own Comics on the web in the form of the faux medical drama Awesome Hospital, in addition to various other projects under the Action Age, the latest of…
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We all love sandwiches and if anybody says differently you better keep an eye on them because they are up to something. Though I am willing to wager the average person might have the knowledge to make four sandwiches tops. This might be due to keeping things simple for simplicity sake, but for some of us its due to the fact that we don’t know how to make anything more complex then a PB&J or Ham Sandwich. What if you want to make a grinder? Or Italian Beef?  Or a delicious Pastrami on Rye (so delicious you guys)? Till now…
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The greatest thing about being a comic book reader is that there is so much great stuff out there just waiting for you to read it. The worst thing about being a comic book reader is that there is so much great stuff out there just waiting for you to read it. A lot of that great stuff is from independent publishers and can be next to impossible to find once their printing run ends.  Such was the case of Tales from the Bully Pulpit, a graphic novel put out by Image comics in 2004 created by Benito Cereno and…
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With Halloween right around the corner a few of you might suddenly feel the urge to experience some good old fashioned horror. Some of you might take in a slasher film or maybe read some Clive Barker, but if your like me you might be interested in experience some theater of the mind. Radio plays to be more precise. In the golden age of radio horror was still in its infancy and didn’t have the over reliance of tricks that horror films today uses, as effective as they might be. Instead they counted on the imaginations of their listeners to…
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