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Swamp Thing: The Becoming by Eric S Brown
Swamp Thing: The Becoming Eric S Brown Alec Holland is no longer the Swamp Thing of the DC Universe but the Green still needs a hero. Reaching into the world of man, the Green has chosen Levi Kamei to be … Continue reading
The Love of Batman and Catwoman by Eric S Brown
The Love of Batman and Catwoman Eric S Brown The Love of Batman and Catwoman By Eric S Brown Detective Comics #27 features the first appearance of Batman in 1939. Merely a year later, Catwoman first appears in Batman #1 … Continue reading
Black Mountain Side by Eric S Brown
Black Mountain Side Eric S Brown Released in 2014, Black Mountain Side is an independent film shot and produced in Canada. The company that made is called A Farewell To Kings Entertainment which one has to wonder if their name … Continue reading
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Chappie by Eric S Brown
Chappie Eric S Brown Released in 2015, Chappie was a moderately successful film at the box office but given mostly lackluster or bad reviews by critics. Chappie is set in a Judge Dredd/Robocop style future where crime is out of … Continue reading
Raccoon Valley by Eric S Brown
Raccoon Valley Eric S Brown Raccoon Valley, released in 2018, is far from your normal virus, zombie type film. There are no zombies in the movie though there are poor people who have been infected by a virus that swells … Continue reading
Star Brand by Eric S Brown
Star Brand Eric S Brown After two decades of roaring success in the 60s and 70s, Marvel tried to expand even further in the mid-1980s with its New Universe line of comics. These comics were supposedly more realistic than the … Continue reading
Daredevil: Wake up by Eric S Brown
Daredevil: Wake up Eric S Brown The second series of Daredevil launched in 1998 and was quickly a huge success with readers. In its early issues huge events happen in Matt Murdock’s life from Bullseye murdering Karen Page to his … Continue reading
Alternative Comic Collecting- The Omnibus by Eric S Brown
Alternative Comic Collecting- The Omnibus Eric S Brown There’s a growing trend in collecting comics that has arisen in the last few years and I am not talking about grading comics. No. Many are giving up monthly comics and even … Continue reading
The Expanse by Eric S Brown
The Expanse Eric S Brown The Expanse premiered in 2015 on the Science Fiction network and was met with generally good response from critics. The Expanse is set in a future universe where humanity is divided into three factions- … Continue reading
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Iron Man: Big Iron by Eric S Brown
Iron Man: Big Iron Eric S Brown Tony Stark isn’t who he used to be. That seems to be the theme of the trade paperback Iron Man: Big Iron which collects the first five issues of the 2017 reboot series. … Continue reading
The Bride of Doom by Eric S Brown
The Bride of Doom Eric S Brown The eighth trade paperback in the current run of the Fantastic Four collects issues 31-35 featuring a storyline called The Bride of Doom. The latest adventure of the team begins with Dr. Doom … Continue reading
Rai: Welcome to New Japan by Eric S Brown
Rai: Welcome to New Japan Eric S Brown In 2014, Valiant Comics rebooted their futuristic samurai warrior Rai, giving him a new ongoing seires. The first four issues are collected in a trade paperback simply titled Welcome to New Japan, … Continue reading
The Wheel of Time by Eric S Brown
The Wheel of Time Eric S Brown Fans have long awaited a live action adaptation of Robert Jordon’s classic Wheel of Time series. This year, Amazon Prime delivered and at the time this is being written, five episodes have been … Continue reading
Jumanji vs Jumanji by Eric S Brown
Jumanji vs Jumanji Eric S Brown The original Jumanji film was released in 1995 featuring Robin Williams, Kristen Dunst, and David Alan Grier in its cast. The movie was well received and reached # 1 at the boxoffice its opening … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, david alan grier, dwayne johnson, eric, gillan, jack black, Jumanji, jungle, kevin hart, kristen dunst, robin williams, the rock, welcome
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Howl by Eric S Brown
Howl Eric S Brown Released in 2015, Howl is an indie, British, werewolf film that brings new life to the genre. Werewolf movies aren’t known for being as successful or well done as zombie and vampire movies, often either killed … Continue reading
Dust Walker by Eric S Brown
Released in 2019, Dust Walker is a film full of SF tropes that still manages to be fun . . .for the most part. Jolene Anderson plays the part of a small town sheriff, Joanne Sharp, who finds herself … Continue reading
Lawless by Eric S Brown
Lawless Eric S Brown When people think about the world of Judge Dredd most think of: Mega City One The vast dystopian metropolis he patrols The radioactive wastelands known as the Cursed Earth which lay beyond its walls The other … Continue reading
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Sightless in the Savage Land by Rain Hall-Brown
Sightless in the Savage Land Rain Hall-Brown In Daredevil issue 10, Matt Murdock is leaving behind Karen Page and Foggy Nelson to give the two of them space and a chance for the law practice to survive but the ship … Continue reading
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Rain Hall-Brown
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear Rain Hall-Brown Matt Murdock is Daredevil, but before he became the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, he just a normal kid with homework and a good heart. He got his powers from saving the life of … Continue reading
Army of the Dead by Eric S Brown
Army of the Dead Eric S Brown In 2004, Zack Snyder stunned the world with his remake of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. While the remake lacked the depth of the original, it was an amazingly well done and … Continue reading
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Tagged army, bautistia, brown, dead, eric, romero, zombie
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Cloak and Dagger by Eric S Brown
Cloak and Dagger Eric S Brown Specatular Spider-man issue 84 featured the debut of Cloak and Dagger, two superpowered teenagers devoted to fighting a war against drug dealers and those who would prey upon the helpless. The characters proved … Continue reading
The New Warriors by Eric S Brown
The New Warriors Eric S Brown The 1990s were a rough time for the comic industry. DC was struggling to hold on, Marvel Comics declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and “indie” publishers flooded the market with an endless number of variant … Continue reading
Starcrash by Eric S Brown
Starcrash Eric S Brown At the end of the 1970s movie studios were scrambling to capitalize on the success of Star Wars anyway they could. There were dozens of ripoffs and perhaps most infamous among them was Luigi Cozzi’s Starcrash. … Continue reading
The Devil Below by Eric S Brown
The Devil Below Eric S Brown The Devil Below is a film loaded with potential, but ultimately fails to deliver much. Based on the very cool concept that monsters live beneath the surface of the Earth, the movie may remind … Continue reading
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Tagged below, brown, descent, devil, eric, jeff, long
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Bunnicula by Rain Hall-Brown
Bunnicula Rain Hall-Brown Bunnicula is a book about a vampire rabbit written by Deborah and James Howe. There are six more books in the series and they have been turned into several cartoon series. I think Bunnicula is a very … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, bunnicula, bunny, carrot, chester, hall, hall-brown, rabbit, rain, salad, vetables
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Falling Feathers by Melissa R. Mendelson
Falling Feathers Melissa R. Mendelson Little brown birds covered sidewalks and streets, their legs tucked beneath them, and their wings broken but still covering their heads. They squeezed their eyes shut while their bodies shook. Cries slipped out through open … Continue reading
Amazing Spider-man: Family Business by Eric S Brown
Amazing Spider-man: Family Business Eric S Brown Family Business was released as a hardcover in 2014 and it isn’t a collection of reprinted Spidey tales but rather an original, 112 page graphic novel, written by Mark Waid and illustrated by … Continue reading
Masters of the Universe: Revelations by Eric S Brown
Masters of the Universe: Revelations Eric S Brown Masters of the Universe: Revelation, a new series, produced and written by Kevin Smith, was recently released on Netflix. Smith claimed that the series would be a direct sequel to the original … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, eric, he-man, masters, skeletor, universe
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension by Eric S Brown
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension Eric S Brown What’s good about the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension? It featured a mega cast of super talented actors including Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, … Continue reading
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Tagged adventures, banzai, brown, buckaroo, dimension, eigth, eric
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Batman: Li’l Gotham: Halloween and Thanksgiving by Rain Hall-Brown
Batman: Li’l Gotham: Halloween and Thanksgiving Rain Hall-Brown In this book, Batman and Robin celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. It’s all new to Robin who was raised by the League of Assassins and doesn’t know anything about the holidays. I liked that … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, brown, hall, halloween, rain, robin, thanksgiving
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Judge Dredd: Guatemala by Eric S Brown
Judge Dredd: Guatemala Eric S Brown Guatemala, the latest trade paperback of Judge Dredd tales released by 2000 AD, collects selected stories from 2017 through 2021. The title story takes up nearly half of the trade and pits Dredd … Continue reading
Dceased by Eric S Brown
Dceased Eric S Brown Published in 2019, Dceased was in some ways DC Comics’ answer to Marvel Zombies. Though they had already done a sort of zombie event with Blackest Night in their core universe, Dceased was an Elseworlds story, … Continue reading
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Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood by Eric S Brown
Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood Eric S Brown Brothers of the Blood isn’t just another collection of Judge Dredd stories as it deals entirely with his family: his brother Rico, a younger Dredd clone who takes up the Rico … Continue reading
Alpha Flight Classic by Rain Hall-Brown
Alpha Flight Rain Hall-Brown Alpha Flight is the superhero team that protects Canada. It is made up of Puck, Guardian, Shaman, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Snowbird, and Marrina. I really like Snowbird because she can change into any animal that … Continue reading
Marvel’s Girl Power by Eric S Brown
Marvel’s Girl Power Eric S Brown Most people likely think that Marvel’s tendency to recreate their male heroes as women of power is a modern thing, but it’s not. The first popular character to be gender swapped was Captain Marvel … Continue reading
Young Justice by Rain Hall-Brown
Young Justice Rain Hall-Brown The kids who make up the Young Justice team are: Impulse (also called Kid Flash), Superboy, Robin, Jinny Hex, Wonder Girl, and Teen Lantern. Jinny Hex, the great, great granddaughter of Jonah Hex, and Teen Lantern … Continue reading
Amethyst by Rain Hall-Brown
The powers of all the people of Gemworld comes from its gems. Each has its own power and purpose. Amethyst is a new version of an older DC Comics, with great artwork for the characters and their world. I really … Continue reading
Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium by Eric S Brown
The Legion of Super-heroes returned to the DC Universe with a new ongoing title in 2019. Brian Michael Bendis was brought onboard to script the title. Though it’s already been canceled or at least put on hiatus as of issue … Continue reading
DC Superhero Girls: Finals Crisis by Rain Hall-Brown
DC Superhero Girls: Finals Crisis review Rain Hall-Brown One of the things I really like about DC Superhero Girls: Finals Crisis is that in the end everyone works together to win. I like that Harley thinks that Batgirl deserves a … Continue reading
Darkstar by Eric S Brown
When one thinks of John Carpenter films, a host of classics spring to mind – The Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog, Halloween. In addition to the big hits of his career, there were also cult classics such as … Continue reading
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The Green Slime by Eric S Brown
The Green Slime Eric S Brown Released in 1968, The Green Slime is something of a strange, cult classic among fans of films from that era and was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, The movie was shot in Japan though both … Continue reading
Etrigan, The Demon by Eric S Brown
Etrigan, The Demon Eric S Brown The Demon, Etrigan, has been a part of the DC Universe since 1972 and was created by the legendary comic artist Jack Kirby, though Kirby wasn’t exactly thrilled with the character as Etrigan’s success … Continue reading
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by Eric S Brown
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Eric S Brown Insanity. That’s perhaps the best word to describe the cult classic film, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which from its opening scene with a tomato crawling out of a sink, attacking a … Continue reading
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Pacific Rim: The Black by Eric S Brown
Pacific Rim: The Black Eric S Brown The original Pacific Rim film brought big budget Mecha to the silver screen in America for the first time. It was an epic adventure of machines, monsters, and combat. Its sequel, Pacific Rim: … Continue reading
The Void by Eric S Brown
The Void Eric S Brown Fangoria magazine called The Void “Disturbing and inconic” . . .and they’re not wrong. The Void is a rather simple horror film in many ways centering on a small town police officer who finds a … Continue reading
Born on a Bayou: The origins of the Swamp Thing by Eric S Brown
Born on a Bayou: The origins of the Swamp Thing Eric S Brown Created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, the Swamp Thing first appeared issue 92 of the House of Mystery series. This original origin was a very simple … Continue reading
The Many Origins of Wonder Woman by Eric S Brown
The Many Origins of Wonder Woman Eric S Brown When Wonder Woman made her debut in October of 1941, her origin story was the one that most comic fans still likely remember when they think about her beginnings. Diana was … Continue reading
They Live by Eric S Brown
They Live Eric S Brown In 1988, John Carpenter’s They Live debuted at # 1at the box office. The film has earned more than three times its budget over the years but more than that, They Live, is perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged alien, brown, eric, live, monster, movie, they
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Star Wars: Alliances by Eric S Brown
Star Wars: Alliances Eric S Brown When Disney took over the Star Wars franchise, the original Grand Admiral Thrawn series was erased from canon which upset a great many fans. Disney listened however and Timothy Zahn brought Thrawn back … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, darth, eric, lucas, star, star wars, thrawn, timothy, vader, wars, zhan
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Wonder Woman 1984 by Eric S Brown
Wonder Woman 1984 Eric S Brown The first Wonder Woman film blew viewers away with its action, as close as possible to the comics take on the Amazon warrior, and some powerful emotional scenes. Wonder Woman 1984 lacks the … Continue reading
Daredevil: End of Hell by Eric S Brown
End of Hell Eric S Brown End of Hell is the fourth collected trade paperback of Chip Zdarsky’s run on the title. It collects issues 16-20 and continues the main storyline that began in Vol 1. These collected … Continue reading
Salvation Run by Eric S Brown
Salvation Run Eric S Brown Salvation Run was a DC Comics mini-series event published in 2008 which ran for seven issues that were later collected into a single trade paperback. Salvation Run isn’t a story about heroes but rather forty … Continue reading
Betaal by Eric S Brown
Netflix is home to some amazing foreign horror series these days and Betaal is one of their newest. It’s an Indian zombie horror tale with some wild and cool twists that was met with some harsh treatment from critics. It … Continue reading
Durham Red by Eric S Brown
A lot of great comic characters begin as supporting cast to an already well known hero. For example, The Legion of Superheroes was created to be part of the background of Superman’s youth, but eventually spun off into their own … Continue reading
Should you get your comics graded? by Eric S Brown
Twenty years ago, the Certified Guaranty Company started operations and has since graded over five million comic books. The impact of the CGC, and other later companies such as CBCS and PGX, is staggering – changing much about how comics … Continue reading
Necropolis by Eric S Brown
Judge Dredd is one of the most published comic characters in the world and has been around since the late 1970s. There are many, many classic and famous Dredd storylines but Necropolis stands out as of the best. Necropolis features … Continue reading
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THX 1138 by Eric S Brown
Not many people know that George Lucas’s first science fiction film wasn’t Star Wars. His debut film was actually a Dystopian movie entitled THX1138, a disturbing look at what things could be like if freedom was a thing of the … Continue reading
The New Mutants by Eric S Brown
One of the first notable movies to be released during the age of Covid 19, The New Mutants has so far been a box office flop, earning back only around two thirds of its production budget. The film has numerous … Continue reading
Avengers: War of the Vampires by Eric S Brown
War of the Vampires isn’t your normal Avengers storyline. It’s much darker, intense, and in many ways truly could be called a horror comic. The trade paperback collects issues 13-17 of the 2018 Avengers title and opens with the Shadow … Continue reading
Interview with Dean Schreck by Eric S Brown
Interview with Dean Schreck Eric S Brown EB: Mr. Schreck, please tell us some about yourself. Schreck: Well, I just turned 71 and have been living in South Carolina for 2 ½ years now. I am a former Long Island … Continue reading
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The Stuff by Eric S Brown
The Stuff Eric S Brown One thing The Stuff didn’t have was a great soundtrack. Its supposedly catchy song about the highly addictive, alien substance is simply horrid. Nonetheless, the Stuff is considered to be a cult classic horror film … Continue reading
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Tagged body, bodysnatchers, brown, eric, invasion, snatch, stuff
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Krull by Eric S Brown
At the end of the 1970s and start of the early 1980s, science fiction and fantasy films were all the rage on the big screen. Star Wars, Star Trek, Conan the Barbarian, Dragon Slayer, Clash of the Titans all proved … Continue reading
Vampirella vs. Dracula by Eric S Brown
When you read a title like Vampirella vs. Dracula most expect an epic vampire brawl. Sadly this trade paperback is nothing of the sort. It’s a complex tale of the Dracula narrative being repeated over and over through out time. … Continue reading
The War of the Realms: The Punisher by Eric S Brown
The War of the Realms: The Punisher Eric S Brown War of the Realms was an event which spanned the entire Marvel Universe. Malekith, the king of the Dark Elves, declared war on Midgard, and all of the horrors of … Continue reading
Punisher: Born by Eric S Brown
Punisher: Born Eric S Brown The Punisher: Born trade paperback is part prequel, part origin story for the infamous, gun-toting vigilante. Weighing in at only 112 pages, it collects the four issue mini-series of the same title. Born opens with … Continue reading
Immortal Hulk by Eric S Brown
In 2018, Marvel Comics’ most famous, rampaging, green giant got a brand new ongoing series and its first five issues are collected in Immortal Hulk Vol. 1. This new series is an original take on the character and is … Continue reading
Zombieland 2: Double Tap by Eric S Brown
Ten years after the release of the smash hit Zombieland, the film finally got a sequel. The entire original, main cast reunited in Zombieland: Double Tap. The question is, of course, does this sequel live up to the … Continue reading
Battle Beyond the Stars by Eric S Brown
Battle Beyond the Stars Eric S Brown The Magnificent Seven in space is the best way to describe Roger Coman’s Battle Beyond the Stars which was released in 1980 and did fairly–well–but–not–great at the box office Still, it went on … Continue reading
Dr. Strange by Eric S Brown
Dr. Strange Eric S Brown Marvel once again launched a new Dr. Strange ongoing series in 2018. Much of that series is now collected in trade paperback. The first of these trades, titled Across the Universe, begins with Dr. Strange … Continue reading
Night of the Comet by Eric S Brown
Night of the Comet Eric S Brown Night of the Comet was shot with a budget of less than one million and released in 1984. That same year saw the release of such classics as Ghostbusters and C.H.U.D. In terms … Continue reading
Dark Knights Rising by Eric S Brown
Dark Knights Rising Eric S Brown In 2017, the DC universe was shaken to its core by the events of a story line entitled Metal which garnered high sales for DC and was widely well received. The Metal story line … Continue reading
Color Out of Space by Eric S Brown
Color Out of Space Eric S Brown H.P. Lovecraft wrote The Color Out of Space in 1927,and Richard Stanley’s new adaptation of it is far from the first to be produced. Die, Monster, Die! released in 1965 holds that honor … Continue reading
C.H.U.D. by Eric S Brown
In 1984, the movie C.H.U.D. was released. While the film earned over three times its production budget, it was far from hitting blockbuster level hit. However, it was a rather unique film in many ways. Billed as science fiction/horror movie, … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, c.h.u.d, cannibalistic, chud, dwellers, eric, horror, humanoid, movie, underground
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Zombie (aka Zombi 2) by Eric S Brown
Zombie (aka Zombi 2) Eric S Brown “The boat can leave now. Tell the crew.” . . . And with those opening words, what is still considered one of the best films ever produced in the zombie genre … Continue reading
Lilliana Vess by Eric S Brown
Most people have heard Magic the Gathering.But in case you haven’t, it’s a collectible card game that’s been around since the early 90s and is played all over the world. It is so popular, it has expanded in several … Continue reading
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Tagged brown, eric, gathering, Liliana, lillian, magic, planeswalker, vess
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Daredevil: No Devils, Only God by Eric S Brown
Daredevil: No Devils, Only God is the second collected volume of Chip Zdarsky’s run on the title. It contains issues 6-10 of the current ongoing series. The story opens a small amount of time after Daredevil is presumed to have … Continue reading
