ComicsOnline Gift Guide: Comic Games
We’ve got very little time left for shopping, so what are we going to go get for our favorite geeks who love both comics and games? Here’s our Top Five Comic Genre Games Gift Guide:
1) Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Join Josh Keaton, Neil Patrick Harris, Dan Gilvezan, John DiMaggio, Steve Blum, Thomas Wilson and more voice acting stars as four different incarnations of Spider-Man put their web-heads together to save the multiverse from annihilation. This is a must for any gamer who is a Spider-Man fan.
ComicsOnline Gift Guide: Music Games
We’re running out of shopping days, but we still have people to buy for! Why not do a whole household a favor and give rhythm games and peripherals?
Here are ComicsOnline’s Top Five for 2010…
Xbox 360 Game Review: Rock Band 3
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Rock Band 3 is available now at Amazon in the following packages:
Xbox 360, Xbox 360 keyboard bundle
PS3, PS3 keyboard bundle
Wii, Wii keyboard bundle
Xbox 360 Game Review: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Guitar Bundle
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by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Blu-ray Review: Supernatural The Complete Fifth Season
I just can’t quit you. by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief As a series, Supernatural is about the Winchester brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki – Gilmore Girls, Friday the 13th) and Dean (Jensen Ackles – Dark Angel, Batman: Under the Red Hood), two…
CC2010: How to Fly to San Diego Comic-Con
The below advice was written for Elliott, but if this might help you, here you go…
Blu-ray Review: Supernatural The Complete First Season
Ask them if they still have the Shamrock Shake?
iPhone Game Review: PandaMania Tower Defense: Legend of the Fu Manchu
iPhone and iTouch wielders rejoice, we have yet another addictive game to waste several hours with! Panda Mania: Legend of the Fu Manchu contains 50 levels over 5 zones of play, pitting the master archer Panda against those who have stolen his mojo (contained of course in his fu manchu mustache) and are terrorizing all five lands that he has sworn to defend.
First Photo of Marvel Studios’ THOR!
The legend has come true! By the will of the gods, I am alive! I am invincible! I am—Thor!!! -Thor Odinson, Journey Into Mystery volume 1, issue 83
In moving toward the eventual epic Avengers movie, Marvel Studios has made it clear that each of the first Avengers will appear in their own movies first. Well, maybe not The Wasp, but she's (spoilers!) dead anyway. We've seen The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man has his second film on its way in days, and Captain America and Ant Man will each have a movie of their own as well before the projected Spring 2012 Avengers film.
Game Review: Alone in the Dark: Inferno (PS3)
Back at Comic Con 2008, I first heard about a game that was so realistic, and immersive they had done away with the HUD (Heads Up Display). I was told that this game draws you in so close, you can feel the horror. Alone in the Dark: Inferno is that game. This PS3 version is the “fixed” re-release of the game that was originally for XBox 360, PC, and PS2.
Alone in the Dark originated the 3D survival horror genre in 1992, and with this new release to revitalize the dated series. And please, if you’ve seen the film that was loosely based on this series, even though the Christian Slater movie was listed by the Guinness Book as the lowest grossing video game movie of all time, give this new 2008 game a chance.
DVD Reviews: Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain
Escape to Witch Mountain
Years ago, I met Bob Young, a retired TV writer who needed a computer tutor. Once a week I scheduled an hour and a half to go to his home above La Costa, California, but we usually took much longer than that. When we were finished going over what he wanted to learn that week, we’d speak French as best we could remember, look at old home movies, or he’d tell me about his experiences writing for television. I eventually looked him up online and found what he had left out. While he had written for quite a few television shows, he neglected to include that he had written one feature film, one that I and all the kids of my generation had seen multiple times growing up. The next time I saw him, I showed him his entry on IMDB and he was surprised to see how many shows they listed as scripted by him. I mentioned how impressed I was that he had written a film from my youth. I wish I remembered more details. I tried to contact him for an interview to go along with this review, but when I called his number, the young woman who answered claimed that this was her number and she’d had it for twenty years. Emails just bounced, but that’s not surprising since I know his old ISP went out of business. I just hope he’s okay. He is about to be 85 this year after all.
Blu-ray Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
“If you ask me nicely, I will Dutch Rudder you for the rest of our lives.”
Kevin Smith and View Askew hadn’t left the nest of the “View Askewniverse” since Jersey Girl, so what were we to think when he cast yet another hot young actor in his latest departure from his comfort zone? Well firstly, that’s a damn funny title. Second, it’s got an alluring ensemble cast taking some of the best of Silent Bob’s Jersey cohorts and pairing them with an awesome sampling of geek pop culture and other hip actors.
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Blu-ray Review: Boondock Saints
“For Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.” -McManus prayer
I didn’t first see Boondock Saints until 2005, due in no small part to its extremely constrained US theatrical realease when it first premiered in 1999. It seems that some people were hypersensitive about public gunplay after Columbine, which was a shame, as this was a truly exciting film that later became a cult classic on video and DVD. Now that Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is in post-production, devine provenance has delivered the original cult classic in the format it was always been fortold in the scriptures: 1080p High Definition graphics and lossless Dolby Digital 5.1 True-HD sound.