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The Unfortunate Return of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival

The Unfortunate Return of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival

Last year I came up with the idea of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival. One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the at-home accessibility of film festival screenings. The Telluride Horror Show and Nightstream Film Festival aligned in such a way that their virtual screenings meant two weeks of watching new films from the comfort of my couch. It was one of the highlights of an…

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Future State: The Green Lantern Timeline

Future State: Exploring The Green Lantern Timeline

The two Future State: Green Lantern issues contain a total of five stories. Combined, the five stories each provide a puzzle piece in the timeline of Future State. According to the official Future State timeline the main Green Lantern story, Last Lanterns featuring Earth Lantern John Stewart, takes place in the year 2035. We join the story in the midst of action defending the homeworld of the…

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Frankensteining a pandemic horror film festival

Frankensteining a pandemic horror film festival

The last time I was in a movie theater was March 13, 2020. COVID-19 had finally arrived on the U.S. shores and we weren’t quite sure what it would mean, but everything was starting to shut down. I figured it would probably be one of my last opportunities to visit the cinema for a couple of months, so I chose the earliest screening of Valiant’s Bloodshot.

It was an uncomfortable experience.…

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Who's Watching the Watchmen?

Who’s Watching the Watchmen?

Who’s watching HBO’s Watchmen? The show doesn’t come out until late October, so no one…maybe some critics under embargo. I just figured someone is going to eventually use that headline to write a snarky article about the show, so why not use it first?

That’s it. That’s all I’ve got. I hope you like the HBO’s Watchmen show when it comes out. Have a great day.

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Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #10 (2018)

Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #10 (2018)

The Green Lantern #10 is another issued packed to the gills with characters from the Multiverse and beyond. It establishes that there’s been a group of Green Lanterns from a number of Multiverses meeting in secret to monitor the Multiverse. They call themselves the Guardians of the Multiverse. Amusingly, they appear to never have bothered inviting Hal Jordan to a meeting. There’s a ton to chew on…

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Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #9 (2018)

Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #9 (2018)

Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s ninth issue of The Green Lantern features a cast of dozens. We’re introduced to a new cosmic superteam called “The United Planets of Superwatch,” Hal Jordan takes us on a recreational swords and sorcery adventure with his D&D group on the planet Atmoora, we get our first glance of the combined Green Lanterns of the Multiverse(or the “Guardians of the Multiverse”),…

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Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #8 (2018)

Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #8 (2018)

There are few team-ups more iconic than that of Green Arrow and Green Lantern. The odd couple team-up, a moralistic space cop and an anti-establishment vigilante, was defined by the creative team of Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams. The relationship was fleshed out in the pages of the Green Lantern series, which became Green Lantern/Green Arrowin a historic storyline that ran from issue 76 through…

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Does Netflix Really Have a Cancellation Problem?

Does Netflix Really Have a Cancellation Problem? (Nope)

If online media publications are to be believed, Netflix has a cancellation problem. That is literally the headline of a Motley Fool article published after the streaming service dropped Santa Clarita Diet. E! News suggestedNetflix is on a “cancellation spree.” If you scroll through Twitter you’ll find plenty of people making the same assessment. Clearly, the belief is Netflix cancels more of…

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Who Are The Multiverse Green Lanterns?

Who Are The Multiverse Green Lanterns?

When the tenth issue of Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern lands on August 10 it’ll crack open the multiverse and release a dozen Green Lanterns. That’s according to the solicitation for the issue:

Twelve parallel worlds! Twelve Green Lanterns! And one unstoppable menace! Hal Jordan joins the Green Lanterns of the Multiverse—including Bat-Lantern, Tangent Green Lantern and…

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The Green Lantern Issue 7 (2018)

The Green Lantern Issue 7 (2018)

The seventh issue in Liam Sharp and Grant Morrison’s dissection of the Hal Jordan mythos finds Earth’s original Green Lantern inside his own power ring.

Cover: The Green Lantern #7

This is an intimate issue of The Green Lantern with nearly all of the action taking place within the ring.

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Second Snap: Worse Than Thanos Snap?

Second Snap: Worse Than Thanos Snap? 10 possible outcomes (warning: spoilers, obvs!)

It probably doesn’t need to be said but this article has significant spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. If you’re okay with spoilers jump past this picture of the Hulk and keep going. If you aren’t? Well, stop right here or Hulk smash.

If you spend way too much time thinking about Avengers: Endgameyou’ll start to realize the “Hulk Snap” may have been a terrible decision. Don’t get me wrong, I…

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Bay Area Comic Shop Hop

Bay Area Comic Shop Hop

The Bay Area’s Comic Art Museum is launching a “Comic Shop Hop” in conjunction with Free Comic Book Day on May 4.

The Fisherman’s Wharf based museum has created a passport that can be stamped as participants travel to comic shops around the Bay Area who are taking part in the annual day celebrating comic books. The passport can be acquired at any shops taking part.

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Captain Marvel crushes completely ridiculous success metric

Captain Marvel crushes completely ridiculous success metric

Captain Marvel has become the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to break $1 billion. It’s an incredibly significant metric for multiple reasons but perhaps most importantly because achieving $1 billion was never considered a realistic objective.

It wasn’t until after Captain Marvel‘s record breaking opening weekendthat sites pushing for the film’s failure started to move the…

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Deep Dive: The Green Lantern Issue 5 (2018)

Deep Dive: The Green Lantern Issue 5 (2018)

The fifth issue of Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s critically acclaimed Green Lantern series is more intimate than previous issues. In “Blackstar at Zentih” we zoom in on Hal Jordan as he runs a gauntlet through the vampire planet Vorr to earn a place on Commander Mu’s Blackstars.

From the cover of The Green Lantern #5

Here’s where you can find my previous The Green Lantern Deep Dives:

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San Francisco's Two Cats Comic Book Store Closing

San Francisco’s Two Cats Comic Book Store Closing

It’s with great sadness that we report San Francisco’s Two Cats Comic Book Store will be shuttering on March 26.

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Deep Dive: The Green Lantern Issue 4 (2018)

Deep Dive: The Green Lantern Issue 4 (2018)

And we’re back with the fourth issue of Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s cosmic epic The Green Lantern. This is another exciting issue which provides background on where the Blackstars located the Anti-Matter Lantern, gives us more insight into the mysterious Commander of the Blackstars, Countess Belzebeth, and pits the Corps against Sun-Eaters.

Liam Sharp’s cover for The Green Lantern #4

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Green Lanterns: Where Are They Now?

Green Lanterns: Where Are They Now?

It can often be difficult to keep track of the whereabouts of Earth’s Green Lanterns.

For the first time since the early aughts, DC Comics only has a single series on shelves with the word Lantern in the title. That title is Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s critically-acclaimed and best selling series The Green Lantern. The star of the series is Earth’s first member of the Green Lantern Corps,…

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