The Wolverine (official trailer)

In cinemas July 25th 2013!

Hugh Jackman was born to play the Wolverine, and wanna know something? I can't wait to see this ace looking movie!

Iron Man 3 trailer

Enter Mandarin into Iron Man's world on 26th April 2013

World War Hulk Movie?

War!

The Hulk may be getting another stand-alone movie after Avengers 2. Thats exciting enough but get this: it is thought that the new film will take its plot from the Planet Hulk and World War Hulk storyline! HULK SMASH!!

The Punisher (1990 game)

What Axe you gonna do?

Played the 1990s NES version of The Punisher game on MAME last night and wow! Impressive! As a long time fan of Frank Castle/Punisher it ticked all of my boxes. Violent? Check. Bloody? Check. Vast assortment of limb altering weapons? You betcha! And of course not forgetting a large helping of miltary grade firearms, all topped off with the comic stylee speech bubbles. "Blam!" "Pow!" And "Kapooow!" Like I said, very neat.
Be The Punisher and battle your way through waves of hoodlums, robots and thugs, using every lethal attack at your disposal to get to the games big villain, Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin.


He's behind you!

Herc

The Christma Eve Movie Is

Just finished watching the new Spidey flick aaaaaaannd......it was good, I enjoyed it. It felt really comic booky in the parts where Webhead was on screen and he had way more sooper dooper skills than the 2003 movie. Couple of downers though: No Mary Jane (but at least we didn;t get no Kirsten Dunst binty, hated her as MJ.) Never seen the guy who played Peter Parker/Spiderman before either but he reminded me of Andy Murray When the film featured the normal day to day stuff it felt like I was watching a high school sitcom on Bravo which was crap but like I said, the action comic book feel of the superhero scenes make up for that
Preferred the 2003 Uncle Ben and Aunt May though. Sally Fields and Martin Sheen? No. And no "with great power comes great responsibilty" line? That is Spidermans 'lesson' which stops him acting like a hothead. Oh and it lacked his wisecracks too. Had one or two but not enough.

My fellow countryman Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors/Lizardman was inspired, and much better than going through the Green Goblin saga again

Hulk Vs Wolverine

Planet Hulk

Picked Planet Hulk up on dvd (in Morrisons of all places) for a mere £3. And thanks to the superpowers of Yourube, you can watch it for free below! Highly recommended by this humble blog, as is the follow up story arc, World War Hulk.

Hulk vs Thor

A Thor(n) In My Super Side

Thor: he's a tad mighty

I finally went out and bought Thor last friday, being as Hollywood seem to be getting the superhero films right these days. Batman, The X Men, Iron Man have all been pretty decent stabs at bringing the comic world to the silver screen (I even like both Hulks despite what critics say) and after seeing the trailer to Thor, I was expecting good things from it. (You know theres a 'but' coming right?) Buuuut, I was let down. I wanted Thor to be a great movie, I wanted it to be as cool as Iron Man yet on the two occasions ive put the disc in and pressed PLAY I have not been able to get to the end. And yes I do have a sad face because like I say, I WANT Thor to rock! He's a bloody great character and has appeared in some fantastic storylines in his 50 years of being. The guy deserves a cool movie but in my opinion, director Kenneth Branagh dropped the ball. Or should I say hammer? I think Chris Hemsworth is perfect for the role but after that (again in my eyes) the perfection goes rapidly downhill.
The film feels like a chore to watch after 15 or so minutes, which is hardly a good sign and I cant exactly put my finger on what is that doesn't do it for me. Well okay heres two: it lacked the 'oomph' the other superhero films of late have had (and had in abundance). Another part of it is my fellow countryman Anthony Hopkins. Wonderful actor, enjoy his work greatly but seeing him in a superhero movie is strange. Why this should be I have no idea, and yet there it is. On the plus side I can see Thor coming good in forthcoming The Avengers flick, and of course there is Thor 2 due in 2013. My thorn may yet be plucked out.

Venom

Here comes trouble!

Stories by Peter David & David Michelinie
Artwork by Todd McFarlane & Rich Buckler

These Marvel Pocketbooks are a cool way to gets all of the history and important stories of the Marvel universe in one tidy collection. They are decently priced (£3.99 each but I got a 3 for £5 deal) and they're a nice size that does away with bulky storage. (Mind you the search for the perfect storage for us comic fans goes on). However the size does create a niggle because it makes the words pretty small and uncomfortable to read at times. (I use a magnifying glass in some sections).
Still its a small price to pay for having the world of the Amazing Spiderman in handy bitesized chunks.
So anyway onto Venom: Birth Of A Monster. I love the alien symbiote villains, both Venom & Carnage, and this is how the former came into being. It all begins with the Sin Eater who roams the streets of New York killing those he finds 'guilty' of crimes. Of course he's nothing more than serial killer himself, using his 'all crime deserves death' mantra as some kind of warped reason to kill. When he murders Spiderman's good friend, Police Captain Jean DeWolfe, the webslinger teams up with Daredevil to bring the lunatic down.
I won't regurgitate the entire tale here, its much better you read it as it ought to be read but suffice to say you won't be disappointed. Its a great storyline and eventhough Venom doesn't make an appearance until near the end, he is wonderfully vicious when he does. One thing that suprised me was the size of Eddie Brock. He has a massive build here when I alway imagined him to be kinda weedy.