Ad Astra may span light years of space and time, but the bottom line is that the movie is a story about a world-destroying mystery and a hero with deep-rooted daddy issues. The movie, which opens Friday, is ostensibly about an astronaut asked to travel to the end of our solar system to stop a force that has been used to disrupt electrical activity, a galactic … [Read more...]

SPOILER ALERT! Read the latest Justice League and Superman books if you want to be surprised. Otherwise, read on. No, seriously. Scroll elsewhere if you’re spoiler-averse. Last warning! Scroll at your own risk! Ha! That wasn’t the last warning! This is the last warning! Okay, then. It’s all on you from here on out. FINALLY, the Justice Society of America is … [Read more...]

Ready or not, movie-goers! Ready or Not successfully marries horror with a slight tinge of humor, just enough to take the edge off a really violent film that rates about 5 on the Quentin Tarantino Blood Splatter Scale. Not for the squeamish, or for anyone looking for a serious film, Ready or Not is a well-written survival story that pits a resourceful, independent young … [Read more...]

With the plethora of great comic related movies out this year many of us, including me, missed the Superman-ish film Brightburn. I was discouraged from seeing it when I learned that the studio, Sony/Screen Gems, did not offer an early screening to critics. This is usually an indication that the studio has little faith in the film and fear early bad reviews. And that the … [Read more...]

One of the joys of a comic shop is looking through the boxes of cheapie comics, the ones that won’t sell for full price because they are beat up or just not popular. The last thing I need to buy in addition to my weekly fix of new comics is a stack of old books I already own, tucked away somewhere among the many boxes secreted around my house and garage. I was in Comics … [Read more...]