The Boys (Amazon Prime superhero TV: second season trailer).
The ultra-violent grimdark take on superheroes operating in a corporate sponsored celebrity selfie world, aka The Boys (based on the
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Free Guy (superhero movie: trailer).
Free Guy is a film where Ryan Reynolds discovers he’s actually a NPC in a very violent computer game modelled
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Marvel’s Black Widow (superhero movie: first trailer).
The Black Widow is going back to Russia for a reunion with her family in the much anticipated Black Widow
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Modern Masters Volume Seven: John Byrne by Jon B. Cooke and Eric Nolen-Weathington (book review).
Just to show I do buy occasionally, I pulled this softcover, a third edition from 2012 no less, of ‘Modern
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Shazam! (2019) (blu-ray film review).
I have to confess the three beginnings don’t make a lot of sense because no one is identified. The first
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The Marvels Project: Birth Of The Super Heroes by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting (graphic novel review).
‘The Marvels Project’ was an original 8-part mini-series released and collected in this hardback. As it was originally released in
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Mac Raboy: Master Of The Comics by Roger Hill (book review).
Over the years of reading ‘Alter Ego’, I have seen the odd piece about Manuel ‘Mac’ Raboy’s comicbook work and
Read MoreJoker movie: right wing Incel incitement or left wing social moralising? (panel discussion).
So, the recent grim but artistic bloodbath that was the 2019 Joker movie, right wing Incel incitement or left wing
Read MoreHenry Cavill will always wear the cape (Superman interview).
The actor Henry Cavill might shortly be appearing in the Netflix series of The Witcher, but he still keeps the
Read MoreThe Neighbor (Netflix superhero series).
With one eye on the Latin market, here’s Netflix’s new Spanish language superhero TV series, The Neighbour (we’ve spelled it
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