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...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Mike Gets Nostalgic Again.
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...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Requiem for Two Dreams
Robert Kirkman did something that is nearly impossible in these days of news leaks and countless comic book websites; he kept a secret. Anyone who has not read issue 193 of The Walking Dead or heard the news, may want to pick up a copy before reading on. Spoilers await. The latest issue of the The Walking Dead, the long-running comic that spawned the AMC television … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo Double Feature, featuring mostly Spider-Man!
Spider-Man: Far From Home has everything a comic lover – and a movie lover – could expect from a summer film: great acting, unbelievable special effects, loyalty to the source material and plot twists that moviegoers will not see coming. This is the movie we imagined while reading comics. The PG-13 movie opens Tuesday, July 2, and it officially welcomes Spider-Man into … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo Salutes Pride Month!
by Michael Sangiacomo ROCKY RIVER – Valentino Zullo said the first reference to homosexuality in his beloved superhero comics was negative. “It was an issue of The Hulk from 1980 which explained that the Hulk’s alter-ego, Bruce Banner, was almost raped by two men in a YMCA,” Zullo said. “That’s a pretty harsh way to introduce the subject to a mainstream audience.” It … [Read more...]