Last week, Pixar released their 27th feature film, Elemental and it has had… less than stellar box office reception despite having pretty rave reviews. This has actually been a problem with all Pixar films in the pandemic era, which has led some critics and fans to ponder is the Pixar era over? Are audiences tired…
Year: 2023
Excalibur #101 “Quiet”
Excalibur #101 “Quiet” Writer: Warren Ellis Pencils: Casey Jones Inks: Tom Simmons Colours: Ariane Lenshoek of Malibu Hues Lettering: Richard Starkings of Comicraft Editors: Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner & Dan Hosek Original Publication date: September 1996 Our favourite mutant misfits might be having a quiet one but we’re getting loud about… our love for quiet…
e272. Why Are So Many Superhero Adaptations So Very, Very, Bad?
There certainly are a lot of superheroes adaptations. In fact, some people would say there’s too many. And yet, they just keep coming and coming. In fact, one of them, The Flash, is bombing at the box office right now, all while Across Spider-verse is getting constant acclaim? What makes a superhero adaptation good and…
Excalibur #100: “London’s Burning”
Excalibur #100 “London’s Burning” Writer: Warren Ellis Pencils: Casey Jones, Randy Green, & Rob Haynes Inks: Tom Simmons, Jason Martin, Rick Ketcham & Rob Haynes Colours: Ariane Lenshoek, Jim Hoston & Malibu Color Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editing: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: August 1996 It’s not our hundredth episode (been there, done that),…
Call From Comments: Thoughts on Adapting Superheroes
(From Mav: This is a guest blog for an upcoming episode. We’re recording it soon, so give us your thoughts really quick! Take it away, John!) From John: Like most genres, adaptation has been the key to the superhero’s popularity and longevity, spreading across multiple media to capture as wide an audience as possible. While the…
e271. Crossing The Spider-Verse
Have we done a show about multiversal superhero movies? It feels like it’s come up before… as though this were just a thing that we feel the need to talk about a lot. Oh well. Certainly we haven’t done this talking about Spider-man movies specifically? Or maybe we have! In any case, it’s time to…
Excalibur #99: “Fire with Fire”
Excalibur #99 “Fire with Fire” Writer: Warren Ellis Pencils: Casey Jones Inks: Tom Simmons Colours: Ariane Lenshoek and Malibu’s Hues Letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: July 1996 We’re coming in hot this week, joined by comics and pop culture scholar Dr. Anthony Michael D’Agostino to wield scorching takes about how everything…
e270. Why Do Fans Hate Things They Love?
If you ever talk to a big fan of Star Wars you’ll probably quickly find that they hate just about as much about Star Wars as they love. The same can be said of Star Trek fans, comic fans, Disney fans and frankly pretty much any fandom that you can imagine. As much of fandom…
Excalibur #98: “Fireflies”
Excalibur #98 “Fireflies” Writer: Warren Ellis Pencile: Carlos Pacheco Inks: Bob Wiacek Colours: Ariane Lenshoek Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Original publication date: June 1996 Explosive change is in the air in Excalibur #98! Kurt Wagner definitely feels that (plus every tiny breeze) as he debuts a brand-new Carlos Pacheco-designed costume that…
e269. Wide World of Disney Reboots
Last weekend Disney released their most recent in an ever expanding series of live action reboots of animated classics. This time they chose the Little Mermaid, and it seems to be gaining a pretty good measure of success. However that’s not always the case, in fact some of them have been panned pretty hard critically…