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Summer Movie Madness Hits This Week's Comics

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the comics industry has gone movie mad this week, judging by the books hitting stores tomorrow. Well, more movie mad than usual, perhaps. If it's not Marvel capitalizing on the success of Iron Man with two new Iron Man series and many other books starring the chrome crusader, it's a sequel to one of last year's summer blockbusters, and the long-awaited conclusion to a story by one of Hollywood's one-time top directors. Celluloid craziness and more, under the jump. More »

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9:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Graeme McMillan
4,585 views, 6 comments

Latest by JohnnyZito: Maybe now that the action comics annual is dropping someone will be allowed to do something with the kid. more »

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Timegasms Are Not Pretty

The best part of time travel movies is always when the crazy scientist/inventor/engineer babbles madly about the hoozits that will allow time to be bent. Even better is when the hoozits swing into action and we see the "traveling in time" effects. Except in Richard Donner's Timeline, which is perhaps one of the worst time travel movies ever made. So bad, in fact, that it is hypnotic. Especially in this scene, where our team of medievalist dweebs is shoved into RenFaire outfits, stuck into a time machine on some ill-defined rescue mission, and shipped off to 1357 in France . . . right at the zoomiest part of the 100 years war. Of course Joan of Arc is there and a bunch of other stupid crap. But let's not focus on that. Let's watch our time travelers travel in the most transcendently dorky way imaginable! [Timeline]

10:21 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,811 views, 37 comments

Latest by Lampbane: The worst part about this movie sucking so hard is that when I read the book (way back when it first came out) I thought, "Wow, this would make a great movie." And this is what we ended up with. more »