The creators of The Alberic Heresies, a unique horror/fantasy comic, offer this sneak preview of their work.
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All-Star Superman #1-2
DC asserts that its All-Star line has been created to present their most iconic characters in their purest, most familiar form, unfettered by current continuity. All-Star Batman raised a few eyebrows and objections with its depiction of Batman. Many felt that Frank Miller’s Batman didn’t deliver as promised.
All-Star Superman is another matter
Infinite Crisis #2-3
“Innocent lives are an oxymoron.”
–Nightshade
Infinite Crisis #1 began perhaps the most publicized event series in comic-book history. The story continues on its confusing path through issues #2 and 3, establishing the basis for the latest revision of the DC Universe, and incorporating a debate about what comix should be.
As it has become impossible to review this series without dropping spoilers like pieces of the Rock of Eternity, I will proceed without spoiler tags. You have been warned.
Antarctica
“Say again X; I did not copy your last message, over.”
“I said I am being hijacked. Over!”
–Robinson 10.
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But your smile is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
–Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
Two new rings found around Uranus
So you should wash more diligently. Bahahahaha….
Sorry.
Astronomers have identified two more rings, bringing the planet’s total to thirteen. Two previously unidentified satellites have also been sighted.
Mars findings all wet?
Recent studies suggest Mars may not hold the deposits of water that earlier researchers (and optimistic SF writers) have suggested. Features which appear to have been left by evaporation may be the result of volcanic activity or meteor strikes.
King Kong (2005)
King Kong cometh!
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Movie Review: King Kong versus Godzilla
(Kingu Kongu tai Gojira)
Urban legend declares that Kong wins in the American version and Gojira in Japan’s. This is false, but different versions did play the west and east sides. We hear Kong’s, but not Godzilla’s, triumphant cry as the pair topples off the cliff and into their next movies (Godzilla vs Mothra aka Godzilla vs the Thing and King Kong Escapes) in the American release. The western version also features some re-editing and new sequences. It emphasizes the conflict between Kong’s sophisticated mammal brain and Godzilla’s primal reptilian one: a characterization true of the original Godzilla, but not the later lizard superhero.
This review (Bureau article #3000!) ends our Kong Kountdown. The much-anticipated remake opens tomorrow.
Movie Review: King Kong (1976)
We’re counting down to the big budget remake of and homage to 1933’s King Kong. Peter Jackson, of course, isn’t the first to remake the classic adventure film. In addition to numerous knock-offs, Dino De Laurentiis produced this notorious remake, released during America’s bicentennial year.
Movie Review: King of Kong Island
Originally titled Eva, la Venere selvaggia, and also released in English as Eve the Wild Woman and Kong Island, this disastrous 1968 jungle pic will receive a new DVD rerelease later this month, to cash in on the hype surrounding Jackson’s remake of King Kong.