Indie Book of The Week – Life Sucks
Writer: Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria Artist: Warren Pleece Publisher: First Second (Roaring Book Press) Life Sucks. Especially for Dave Miller. You see, Dave is stuck working the night shift at a...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of May 26, 2008
This week in The Checklist, JLA takes us into Final Crisis, Amazing Spider-Man breaks the boring streak, and Ultimate X-Men shoots back into the upper echelon of comicdom! Check it all out, agree,...
View ArticleThe Catch-Up: A Checklist Addendum
This week, we Catch Up on some classics. Classic characters like Frankenstein and Iron Man. Classic stories of good vs. evil in Punisher Max, and soon-to-be classics like Echo and 100 Bullets. It’s...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of June 2nd
Final Crisis! Astonishing X-Men! 1985! King-Sized Hulk! New Avengers! And More!! So much great stuff hit the shelves this week, it actually took me almost twice as long to get through it all! I wanted...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of June 9th
If you thought last week was big, think again!! This week featured new issues of Secret Invasion, Avengers/Invaders and Ultimate Origins, just to name a few! Also, we’ve been invited to a special...
View ArticleGraphic Reccomendations – Penny Arcade Vol. 5
You would be hard pressed to find anyone who has spent time on the net and is into comics and gaming that doesn’t know Penny Arcade. For almost a decade, Gabe and Tycho have entertained, reviewed, and...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of June 30, Part I
After a short hiatus The Checklist is back! This week was such a heavy week that the only way I could fit it all in was to split it into two parts! In Part I, we have Final Crisis, Superman, Captain...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of June 30, Part II
Happy Canada Day, everyone! As promised, here is Part II of this week’s Checklist! We’ll take a look at Ultimates 3, both Avengers titles, and more! But the fun doesn’t stop there! On the next...
View ArticleThe Catch-Up – July 3rd
It was such a huge week last week, that it was inevitable that more things would need talking about. Young Avengers, Wolverine, Transformers and more all had decent offerings that deserved to be...
View ArticleMovie Review: Wanted
Here’s the thing: we all need to stop judging new movies on the trailers that come out. Remember seeing the trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie? It was rad. Then the movie blew because aliens...
View ArticleThe Checklist: Week of July 7th
There was a lot of good stuff that came out this week. Astonishing X-Men got new leadership, Avengers/Invaders continued to be above par, and worlds collided in Buffy. Truth be told though, the most...
View ArticleThe Checklist – Week of July 14th
It’s a slightly shorter Checklist this week, but trust me, that’s a good thing! It’s good because I have so many cool things to get to this week! In the Checklist, we have Secret Invasion, Ultimate...
View ArticleMovie Review – The Dark Knight
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending an IMAX press screening of The Dark Knight. I don’t know if words can do justice to the Awesomeness of this movie, but I will do my best to get across every...
View ArticleDVD Review – Batman: Gotham Knight
Over the years, Batman has taken many forms. There’s the comics we know and love, the campy 60’s TV show, and of course this summers gritty Caped Crusader in The Dark Knight. One of the most loved...
View ArticleThe Watchtower on The Radio
Our good friends at Toronto @ Noon with Dave Trafford on Newstalk 1010 CFRB asked me to join them on the air today to review The Dark Knight. I thought it was a fun couple of minutes that you guys...
View ArticleThe Checklist: Week of July 21
This week’s Checklist is a world-wide edition, featuring Marvel’s newest Soleil title, Universal War One. There’s also some Punisher, some Ultimate Fantastic Four, and a Final Crisis tie-in that you...
View ArticleThe Checklist: Week of July 28th
My apologies for being a little absent from posting this week, but I have been up to my neck in stuff getting ready for the release of No Reason #0, and there’s been so much stuff coming out of San...
View ArticleThe Checklist: Week of August 4
It’s a holiday Monday here in Canada, but that can’t stop The Checklist! We take a look at Green Lantern, a couple of Secret Invasion books and the latest chapter of Old Man Logan! All this and more...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead vol. 8: Made To Suffer
Writer: Robert Kirkman Artist: Charlie Adlard Publisher: Image Comics It may seem strange to start a review of a book with Volume 8, but when it comes to The Walking Dead, quite often strange is...
View ArticleThe Checklist Part 1 (of 3) – Weeks of Aug 6/13
Time to dig in and sort through the good the bad and the ugly of the last couple of weeks in The Checklist! Since I missed last week, and this week seems to be somewhat of a big week, today’s edition...
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