The Invisible Man strikes a new genre in film – superhero-horror. Actually, it’s more like supervillain-horror movie, since the brilliant scientist who creates an invisibility suit is an evil sadist. It is his live-in girlfriend, Cecilia, played to perfection by Elizabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), who is the true hero of the film. Australian director Leigh Whannel, the … [Read more...]

YES! Airboy is back in comics for the third time in 75 years and it is the book that we fans longed for. Even better, the guy who wrote the entire 50-issue 1980s run for Eclipse Comics, Chuck Dixon, has returned and picked up exactly where he left off in 1989. And while I don’t agree with Dixon’s politics at all, I love his work on Airboy. In the last series' 50th and … [Read more...]

It looks like there are some big changes coming in comics at DC, changes which we have seen coming incrementally for some time. And, as a reader for a long time, a very long time, I am not unhappy about new versions of old characters getting to shine -- as long as the original versions stick around. I’m a bit confused about the thinking over at Superman’s home. They know … [Read more...]

Take a pinch of Alien, a dash of Creature From The Black Lagoon, a page or two from the Cthulhu story of your choice, and some vague references to humans destroying the environment, mix it all with an attractive cast and voila: Underwater. It looks like the critical community is split almost exactly down the middle about whether Underwater is a hit or a herring, I suspect … [Read more...]

By Michael Sangiacomo Comic fans would be the first to admit that we are a picky bunch, especially at Christmas. Spouses and family members think we will be easy to buy gifts for, but that is not the case. The reason is simple, it takes a comic fan to know what another comic fan wants. Should they go on Amazon and buy some super-overpriced hardcover Superman book … [Read more...]