tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622052854672745032011-04-21T19:08:42.482-04:00Stomping my way through comics, movies and music.Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18408773122636115091noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762205285467274503.post-72409602046042039982008-10-31T13:44:00.002-04:002008-10-31T13:50:30.928-04:00

In 1978 John Carpenter put a man in plain coveralls, a William Shatner mask, and created the Halloweenseries. Little did Carpenter know that his $325,000 movie would earn over $150million and spawn a new genre of horror films, after this no teenaged babysitter would ever be safe on the big screen again.When Halloween was set to be broadcast on television in 1981 the censors deemed several

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For 37 years Gene Wilder has terrified children and adults alike in his portrayal of Willy Wonka. Wonka, an eccentric candy maker decides to open the doors of his ultra secretive factory for one day, and only allow children to visit him. Wonka is without a doubt in my mind the inheritor of all the morality lessons, destruction, and violence that the Brothers Grimm ever wished to impart to

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Silence of the Lambsis a delicious example of a movie where the supporting actor over whelms the main characters and steals the attention of the audience. When asked about this movie, most people do not mention Buffalo Bob, or the FBI they simply render an impression of Hannibal Lecter flicking his tongue quickly over his lips. This is a movie that gets into your head, just as the villain of

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Werewolves, ghosts, witches, vampires, the Boogie Man and musical numbers, it must be a horror movie. Only Tim Burton could imagine a story like The Nightmare Before Christmaswhere Halloween is prepared and exported to our world by fantastical creatures of our darkest nightmares. Disney was reluctant to release this movie, as they thought its content would scare children, so they released it

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Suzy Banyon is a talented dancer from New York City who has just received an invitation to a prestigious dance school in Germany, it’s the chance of a lifetime, and it may be the end of her life. Italian horror director Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a very rarely seen piece of horror movie history. An innocent young girl follows her dreams, and quickly finds herself at odds with a murderous

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What would Halloween be without its master of ceremonies, Vincent Price and his House on Haunted Hill? During his career Price played many a role, comedian, voice over artist, gourmet cook, and horror movie icon. In an era where Bug Eyed Monsters (BEMS) were pulling in box office bucks, Price left his mark on Hollywood for all time.Frederick Loren and his wife Annabelle do not have what you

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When his wife passes away John Russell moves into an old mansion to spend some time alone with his thoughts, and stumbles into his very own ghost story. Russell soon discovers that he is not alone, and that his unexpected houseguest has a story to tell. Part mystery, part ghost story, and a dash of paranoia mix together to make an intelligently creepy horror film.George C Scott’s presentation of

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HP Lovecraft returns to 31 Days of Horror with Re-Animator, a cult favorite movie based loosely on the serial novella Herbert West, Re-animator this film has been both shocking and amusing it’s audience since 1985. Director Stuart Gordon made the decision to modernize the story, but thanks to a young actor named Jeffery Combs the production was able to keep in tune with the feel of one of

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DoctorVictor Frankenstein had a dream, a dream to conquer death and disease. Not all dreams work out for you the way you would like them too, sometimes you only create the number 2 box office draw movie monster. If torch-wielding mobs had their say, Frankensteinwould be the number one monster of all time. Pieced together from bits and pieces of murderers, thieves and whatever parts were on

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Call him Dracula,or Vlad the Impaler, or even Nosferatu. There is no doubt that vampires rule the month of October as kings of the night. More movies have been made about vampires then about any other of the classics of cinema monsters. With origins born in folklore vampires have threatened almost every culture on earth, but when an image of a vampire comes to mind, our minds conjure up an

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A werewolf does not knock on your door to introduce itself, it howls. When a TV news anchor is offered an exclusive interview with a reported serial killer, she cannot pass up the opportunity. Little does she realize that she is about to leave the world of humanity and enter into the world of primal animalistic rage. Communities gather together to defend themselves against the parts of the

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In 1979 director Lucio Fulci knew where the winds of horror were blowing, they were blowing towards Zombies. This film has no relation to the George Romero series, but the director hoped that he could profit off of Romero’s fan base. Fulci copied Romero in many ways, but not in everyway. These zombies were the result of a cursed island, an island where nearly the entire movie takes place.

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Director John Landis was traveling through Eastern Europe when the idea that would become An American Werewolf in Londoncame to him. As the story goes he saw a group of what looked to be gypsies practicing a ritual over the grave of one of their family. They told him it was to prevent the dead from returning to the world of the living. His 20th century method of thinking saw these rituals are

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While not specifically written to be a horror film, Freakshas developed quite a reputation and cult following. Director Tod Browning filmed this movie in 1932 in only 3months. He made a crucial decision in the casting that would make this a movie unique in cinema. Browning decided to not use make up to create his circus of freaks, and instead he cast real sideshow circus freaks. Birth defects

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He’s the self-proclaimed leading bio exorcist of the afterlife, and he’s been sighted in Winter River Connecticut. Beetlejuicewas a commercial success for Tim Burton filled with the kind of horror movie imagery you can only find at a carnival scare ride. When young newlyweds pass away in a car accident, they discover that the afterlife is even more heavily laden with paperwork and forms then

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Halloween isn’t just about the dead and horror, it’s about tricks or treats. It’s about getting together with your friends in the neighborhood and going door to door in costumes asking for candy. Unless you’re a visionary dreamer named Linus, then Halloween is about proving your sincerity to the Great Pumpkin. No mater how many times your sister Lucy calls you a blockhead.Since it was first

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Every year Fox television blesses us and curses us at the same time with a new installment of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. Some years the tree is solid and sturdy, other years the tree is flimsy and rotten to the core. Over the years we’ve seen parodies of The Shinning, Nightmare on Elm Street, and even Harry Potter.While the movies that they mock aren’t for kids, the Simpsons are chock

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Pipkin and his friends do everything together, and they always trick or treat together. Pipkin is never late, in fact he is always the first one there, but this year he’s late. There is an ambulance at Pipkins’ house, he’s being taken to the hospital, or is he? Pipkin is seen in the distance, and the chase is on. Pipken disappears into a strange house owned by a strange man named Moundshroud

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In 1957 one man in New Zealand saved the world from the threat of the Sumatran Rat Monkey. It was not until 1993 that a filmmaker named Peter Jackson finally revealed his story. Dead Aliveis the name under which he released this information critical to homeland security. Little did the world release how dangerous the bite of one vicious little Sumatran Rat Monkey could be. Did anyone ever

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You’ve Got Mail. Consider this movie, Meg “Oh My Gawd Am I Cute” Ryan and Tom “I’m a safe guy” Hanks falling in love over an American Online Email Program. Absolutely Horrifying please don’t watch this movie or any like it.

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1981’s dark horse movie Evil Deadintroduced the world to Bruce Campbell and Sam Rami. Evil Dead made very little money on its own but people with important names and large checkbooks loved it. 1987 brought the world many important things that have nothing to do with Evil Dead: 2. Rami lost the rights to his creation, and had to start over again, sort of, but with more money. Campbell

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Her name is Regan, and she hasn’t been acting like herself of late. After numerous visits with psychiatrists, uncomfortable medical tests there are still no answers to what could be wrong with the young girl. Her mother makes an unusual choice, a choice based partially on her belief structure, and partially on psychiatric science. An Exorcistis called in to see Regan.Seeing this movie on DVD

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As the old saying goes, better the devil you know. Horror movie fans had grown comfortable with the red horns, the brimstone, the fire, and the damnation. In 1987 Clive Barker’s Hellraiser ripped the movie screen to bloody ribbons. When the puzzle box was solved, Pinhead appeared promising untold ecstasy and exquisite pain to his victims and surpassing box office expectations.With it’s

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Rosemary Woodhouse wants to have a baby,but not as much as her neighbors want her to have a baby. Mia Farrow shines as the naive expectant mother who watches as her life spirals out of her control as her creepy, yet well intentioned neighbors offer their advice and help with her pregnancy. Once Rosemary and her husband Guy move into their new apartment building everything seems to fall into

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Horror is not always obvious, sometimes one must do research to find true horror. Secret societies have existed for longer then the page has held print, and many of these societies have survived to the present day. Over time a society may drift from its founders wishes, and become a parody of itself. Sometimes the truth behind a secret society was never a part of the society at all.Johnny Depp

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Select members of the human race have always known that the ancient ones will return to our verdant sphere. These learned scholars and madmen were arrogant enough to believe that the only vessel for the return of the ancient ones would be the dread priest Cthulhu (who sleeps in R’lyeh, darkness eternal). For centuries these accursed men kept watch for signs of the rise of the city of R’lyeh,

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To some men, there is nothing more important then living up to your fathers expectations. Finding that right girl, and finishing the dreams that dad wasn’t able to finish. In The Dunwich Horror, Dean Stockwell plays Wilbur Whateley searching for that perfect girl, played by Sandra Dee to continue his father’s work.H.P. Lovecraft wrote short stories that were not meant to be adapted

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There comes a time in a mans life, when he must rise to the challenge. When he can see the future laid out before him in a crystal clear, this is not one of those times. She’s leaving him, his best mate is a fat slob, and the dead are walking. It is time for Shaunto take charge of his life.For decades movies have been made showing mans struggle against the walking dead. The first popular

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In Night of the Living Dead,the unburied dead are walking and seeking human victims. They could be your neighbor, they could be anyone. The terror was right next door to you, and it was hungry for your flesh. Damned Communists, they were everywhere in 1968, but now they want to eat you. Director George Romero offered little explanation to the horror of his ghouls, but he did hint that that

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In 1979 movie going audiences were gobbling up popcorn in front of any screen with space ships and alien creatures, just as they had 20 years previously. But Alienwas not their fathers Bug Eyed Monster. Ridley Scott, drawing upon the space monster movies of his youth, took H.R. Gigers alien creation and gave it life on the big screen. Catapulting Sigourney Weaver to stardom and reminding the

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Day 1, Enter the ChainsawIn 1974 director Tobe Hooper gave the horror genre a shot in the arm with his low budget independently produced film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hooper loosely based his film on the real life cannibal Ed Gein, Hooper also said that the inspiration for the film came to him as he tried to think of a quick way to exit a crowded hardware store. Hooper’s realistic and

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Plugging a child into a television set is a time-tested tradition among American parents, and babysitters. Of course these same parents deny ever using the electronic baby sitter to distract their kids, but we all know it happens. The 'boob tube' is a better asset to the modern household then 'mommies little helpers' were back in the day before Mick Jagger was collecting Social Security

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So you've got a dinner party coming up and you want to mix up a batch of Disaster Movie for your friends. Well let the 50 Foot Critic share his family recipe with you.Timing is key in a disaster movie, warm weather is the best season for this recipe, and I prefer to use July myself. Once you've picked your season, you should sprinkle liberally with timely relevance. I'm partial to social

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The Dark Knight (2008)Heath Ledger died a tragic and untimely death, but that is not what earns an actor an Oscar. An actor earns an Oscar through their skill distracting an audience from their day-to-day lives, as well as the social and political timing of their role. No actor ever earned an award without a good script, a solid director, and quality source material. Understanding these

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Everyone hates to admit that they watch television, but we all pay our monthly cable television bill so that we can visit with our pixelated serial friends every week. Over the years television has been a friend, a lover, and a vile enemy to each and every one of us. We've laughed with the television, we've cursed at the television, and we've starred at the television in dumbfounded shock.

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No reviews this week. Wedding anniversay.

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Shit, George Carlin passed away. He was 71 years old and suffered heart failure. In 1972 Carlin released the album Class Clown, and accidentally set sweeping changes to the media in motion. Later that year Carlin was arrested in Wisconsin for disturbing the peace, by using his now famous 7 words you can’t say on television as part of his comedy act. In 1973 WBAI FM radio in New York City

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In 1994 a once great, albeit obscure super hero from World War II passed along his legacy to his son David, much to the delight of his other son Jack who wanted nothing to do with “that ridiculous costume”. Before David or Jack knew what was happening, David had been murdered by the son of his father’s arch enemy The Mist, and Jack was fighting for his life. When The Mist threatened his father

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Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut (2006)In 1978 audiences were shown a side of Superman they’d never seen before, a Superman who made us believe that a man could fly. In 1981 Warner Brothers tried to make magic strike twice, but what they showed us was not the original vision of the man of steel.In an unprecedented move, Warner Brothers hired Richard Donner to film two movies at the same time

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It has been 20 years since cinema audiences have seen new adventures of Indiana Jones on the big screen. 20 years of overly CGI, government conspiracies, and a never ending stream of copycat pretenders to the throne of pulp action adventure. Over 20 years a lot of things can change, cinema technology, stadium style seating, popcorn prices, ticket prices, political climate changes, and even

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Time and Space are infinite, if you accept this then the odds of a single woman from South Croydon England encountering a Time Lord once is astronomical. Sarah Jane Smith has met multiple versions of the same Time Lord at numerous occasions. The only odds more astronomical then this are the chances of that same character getting a second chance at her own spin off Sci-Fi television show 27

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Captian America March 1941 to March 2007I wish that I could say it was a pleasure to be here. I think if I could say that, then things would somehow be alright. If not alright, perhaps they would be a bit better then they are now. Because right now, we all know how things are.I feel that I'm not supposed to be the one doing this, that somehow my best attempt will fall short. Barnes should be here

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Broken (Star Wars: Legacy, Vol. 1)Have you ever noticed, that when someone other then George Lucas writes a Star Wars story, it’s a really good story? Well, the folks at Dark Horse Comics noticed this and have been publishing stories about the force since before Anakin Skywalker whined about how mitochlorians make his skin itch. Star Wars Legacybegins 125 years after the movie Return of the

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Forget Paris (1995)Ask anyone in a long-term romantic relationship if their life is similar to a relationship in a movie, and they will laugh at you. They’ll tell you that long-term romantic relationships are complicated and full of details that no filmmaker could possibly get right. But the skills Billy Crystal put to the test in When Harry Met Sallyhave made a full court press in an attempt

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The Company of Wolves (1985)1985 was a tough year for horror movies that did not rely on blood and gore to draw an audience. George Romero’s Day of the Deadwas devouring soldiers in an underground bunker. Freddy Krueger returned to seek his revenge in the second installment of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Streetfranchise. And the repressed memories of Santa Claus,The Moviestill make me quiver

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Justice League - The New Frontier (2008)Fear comes in many shapes and forms. There is fear of the dark, fear of change, fear of an enemy, and fear of the unknown. After World War 2 America became a nation of fear, and it was led there by a Senator named Joseph McCarthy. Senator McCarthy came forward and claimed he could protect Americans from what they feared, and Americans gladly handed the

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Made (2001)Have you ever watched The Sopranos and thought to yourself “I could make it in organized crime”, well the main characters of Made certainly thought just that they could do just that. Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughan bring us the tale of a pair of old friends who want to be “Made Men”. One of them thinks that they’ve got what it takes, and the other just wants to take a job so he can pay

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A History of Violence (2005)I’ve been a fan of the work of David Cronenberg for many years now. I’ve watched his work mature from bloody b movies to obscure story and now to modern drama. A History of Violenceis a dark family drama based on the comic book of the same name, and Cronenberg surprised me with his work this time around.The premise of the movie is a basic one, one mans past catches

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Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales (2007)A wiser man than I once said that you can’t go home again, and when your home is a five mile long space station in neutral space populated by diplomats, scoundrels, Earth Alliance Military, and wanderers he couldn’t have been more right.Babylon 5, The Lost Tales is the third attempt to rekindle the magic that was the 5 seasons long run of the groundbreaking

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The Lost World (1960)In 1960 Irwin Allen released an adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Lost World,and once again giant dinosaurs roamed the earth. Allen decided to update the Victorian era novel to the present day, and taught cinemagoers all a valuable lesson. Modern women simply will not go on an expedition to the jungles of South America without their matching luggage and

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Idiocracy (2006)Dictionary.com describes Satire as; literary compositions in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.One of the present masters of this art form is Mike Judge. His creations range from the lowbrow minimalist animation of Beavis and Butt-head, the commercial success of Office Space, and the red neck drama of King of the Hill. It was

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DC ComicsCheckmate #20I missed this issue two months ago, but my guy was able to secure a copy for me.This was the conclusion of a storyline called “Fall of the Wall”, I hate missing conclusion issues. Dr. Amanda Waller has been a player in the DC Universe for decades now, she’s been in charge of The Suicide Squad, or Task Force X, and this was her final issue as a member of the UN sponsored

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Cloverfield(2008)There is something about a movie with a giant monster in it that appeals to the ten year old in all of us. The fascination with dinosaurs never quite seems to leave us no matter how old we get. JJ Abrams, the creator of Lost,loves Godzillamovies, and wanted to make an American giant monster. I suppose he felt he couldn’t use King Kongbecause of Peter Jackson’srecent film, so he

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The great thing about Batman is, there is nearly 70 years of continuity.The bad thing about Batman is, there is nearly 70 years of continuity. It's a double edged sword. If you write new plot, the fans hate you. If you work with old plot, you won't get as many new fans as things are to confusing.How do you work around this? That's simple, hire David S. Goyer to write your script. The man could

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V for reviewHow does a man write a reView of a moVie based on a bookthat changed his life? Where does one start to write about the celluloid’s mimicking passages of text that made a young man actually start to think?Well Very simply, one begins at the beginning and moVes forward onto the end of the writing piece. It helps to haVe a cleVer opening line though. And it neVer hurts to haVe a joke

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What If…?What if the Fantastic Four got their Super Powers in 2005 instead of in 1961? Well some aspects of the story would have to be changed; after all it’s over 40 years later. It simply wouldn’t do for the plot to begin with Reed Richards racing “the reds” to outer space. It especially wouldn’t do to have him stealing his own under funded rocket ship, with his best friend, his girlfriend, and

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Once upon a time, in a faraway land lived a little boy named Charlie Bucket. Charlie was not at all different from you or I save for one simple thing, Charlie had a book written about him. A wondrous cautionary modern fairy tale about virtue, and what can happen to you if you stray from it. That wondrous book was made into a movie, and Charlie’s name was taken away from it. Forever cast under the

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If I had to pick a single genre of film as the most annoyingly cliché, it would be Romantic Comedy. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Boy meets girl, boy thinks that girl is pretty; girl takes a second to think about boy, and thinks that boy is kind of cute. Boy clumsily asks girl out, she thinks that his stumbling words and poorly dressed manner is adorable. A montage showing months of

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To a simple man, this movie would appear as if the director could not find a light to expose Ray Charles under. One second Ray was a sympathetic tortured soul, then an emotionally abusive man, and then as a musical genius lost in his keyboard. But to me, this portrayal smacked of realism. As people are not, and shall not ever be two-dimensional characters on the silver screen. They have their

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Just sit right back and you’ll hear a taleA tale of a Firefly Class ShipThat started from Serentiy ValleyAnd took a cinema trip…Firefly was cancelled and sent to the land of the DVD box set before Joss Whedon had a chance to tell his story. Thanks to Universal Pictures, Serenity has taken to the black once again.I’m not a fan of movies based on Television shows, for the most part I find them to

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Green Lantern: Rebirth #6 Final IssueIf there is a revolving door to the after life, it exists in the comic book industry. Hal Jordan went mad and tried to rewrite time and space(in his image) in the early 90’s. In the late 90’s he gave his life to stop a cosmic phenomena called “the sun eater”.Then a couple years later, his errant soul was chosen as the anchor to God’s Wrathknown as The Specter.

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