A Thought About Transformers

You know that scene in Clerks where they talk about the second Deathstar explosion being problematic because really it was just bunch of space contractors that got killed? I had my own logical realization about Transformers the other day. Also this is what happens when you watch a bunch of...

1st Gen Transformers

If, for some reason, you started buying up G1 Transformers in say 2003, stopped and tried to sell them today, you’d have to ask yourself, “What in the heck has happened to the G1 market?”

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

This past weekend I went down to the local movie house, and got to see Transformers: Dark Of The Moon on the big screen.  All I can say is… Wow.  This is the Transformers movie we have been waiting for. I am a fan of Transformers; I always have been.  I thought the first Transformers...

Pick Five | Successful Adaptations Feb21

Pick Five | Successful Adaptations

Welcome to another installment of Pick Five, where one of our writers picks five of whatever comic related “fill in the blank” that tickles their fancy. The success rate of adapting comic book properties into other media is astonishing and if anything the trend seems to be picking up...

Just A Thought | Summer of Comic Book Movie Love

Have you taken a look at how many comic book based (and other films that aim at the same fan base) films are coming out this summer? A lot. We have Green Lantern, Thor, X-Men: First Class, Captain America, Transformers 3, Cowboys and Aliens, Conan, the list is pretty big this year. So...

ARRRGH | Do Movies Effect Comic Book Sales?

So after our podcast this week, a listener wrote to me talking about how he was thinking about why the Iron Man comic hasn’t really translated into huge sales, given the enormous success of the movies. Ian Warren writes: The comic itself was further ostracizing. The movie “Iron Man”...