ComicsOnline

– Celebrating 25 Years of Everything Geek Pop Culture!

Reviews

Comic Review: Batman #13 and Uncanny Avengers #1

by Terrence St John, Editor-at-Large So I’m a long time comic fan. A year ago I had to drop the habit of hitting my comic shop and picking up my favorite books. I had moved south and had not yet…

Geek Gift Guide 2012: Top 5 Toys For Your Average Gamer

by Kerrie Hui, Reporter Let’s face it – Holiday season is the time when family wants to meet and ridiculous amounts of food is to be had whilst you have been tragically parted away from your console and most likely…

Geek Gift Guide 2012: Comics

by Mike Favila, Reporter I’m really excited by the slate of books that have recently come out or are about to hit the shelves. Some of these are continuations of great runs, while others are brand new for 2012.  These…

Gift Guide 2012: Jayden’s Top 5 Interactive Star Wars Items

by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor Star Wars fanatics: if you aren’t one yourself, it’s still a pretty safe bet that you know at least one person who is somewhat obsessed with George Lucas’ geek-tastic universe. Let’s just say that you…

Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Matt’s Top 5 Blu-ray/DVD Releases

  by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor The holidays are quickly approaching, and ComicsOnline’s Managing Editor is back with a few suggestions on what to get for that pop-culture lover in your life. Here are a few fantastic items that have…

Movie Review: Life of Pi

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Like any story, Life of Pi can be described in many ways, from multiple points of view. And even in so doing, my audience might, no, must receive my description, my review, in a unique way…

Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Headbangers Holiday Gift Guide

The Headbangers Holiday Gift Guide by Karl Madsen, Editor It’s that time of year and you’re wondering what to get that guy in the mail room with the studded leather choker, or the nephew that wears nothing but black and…

Comic Book Review: Thicker Than Water

By Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor A fairytale strictly aimed at mature readers, Thicker Than Water is definitely not a fable suitable for children. For fans of B-grade slasher films however, this book should be right up their alley… Written and…

Blu-ray Review: Brave (Five-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition)

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Disney has a long legacy of producing the best princess-anchored animated epic tales the world has ever known. Now that Disney owns Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, have they taken on too much and spread too wide…

Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph

Like their Toy Story trilogy before it, Pixar’s Wreck-It Ralph exists in a world where once humans look away, our toys have lives of their own. This time instead of classic toys, we have a story of classic arcade video…

Blu-Ray/DVD Review: Battle Royale – Director’s Cut

by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor Forget everything you might have heard about how “original” an idea The Hunger Games was, Battle Royale is where it all began. And what a battle it is. Prepare to enroll in the ultimate survival…

XBox 360 Game Review: Medal of Honor: Warfighter

OORAH SPEC OPS It should be said, first off, that this review covers only the single player campaign of Medal of Honor: Warfighter.  I’ll be reviewing the multiplayer separately (and later).  Now!  Down to business.  Warfighter was one of the…

Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

The Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) and Tom Twyker (Run Lola Run) came together to try and put David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas, into a film of the same name that would be as compelling as the novel. Since the…

Blu-Ray Review: The Raid

by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor An action film set in the slums of Jakarta, The Raid (otherwise known as The Raid: Redemption or Serbuan Maut in Indonesian) is a testosterone-fueled machine full of shootouts and kicks to the face from…

DVD Review: Truth or Die

by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter Ever been on a roller coaster that had a particularly long lift hill?  One that just ratchets away for what seems like an inordinate amount of time, pulling you at a glacial pace to the…