Justice League Dark (2017)
As a comic book reader since I was a kid, it’s so strange to see deep cut characters like the Demons Three and Black Orchid show up in an animated movie. This one takes place between Justice League vs. Teen Titans and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract. Batman (Jason O’Mara), Superman (Jerry O’Connell), Wonder Woman (Rosario Dawson) […]
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 (2012)
Adapting the Frank Miller — with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley — comic book is a feat. Other than perhaps Watchmen, no comic took hold of my imagination in 1986 the same way, reinventing — for better or worse — the way that many saw Batman and Superman. Directed by Jay Oliva and written by Bob […]
25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE: Hell On the Shelf (2021)
I hate the elf on the shelf. It creates an early message for children that we live in a police state, a place where you are constantly under surveillance and even the cutest things you see hide a way to keep you docile. The Polonia Brothers directed this and it was written by Aaron Drake […]
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Fitting in between Teen Titans: The Judas Contract and The Death of Superman in the New 52 DC Animated Universe, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay has Professor Zoom (C. Thomas Howell) still alive, despite being shot in the head by an alternate world Batman in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. He wants a “Get Out of Hell Free” card, […]
Mandrake (1979)
Lee Falk created both Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. Comic historian Don Markstein said, “Some people say Mandrake the Magician, who started in 1934, was comics’ first superhero.” Falk may have based the hero on Leon Mandrake, a real-life magician who also wore a top hat, had a thin mustache and also rocked a […]
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