Category Pick Five

Pick 5 | Music Stars in Comic Movies

Super Bowl 47 happened not too long ago, and music mega superstar Beyoncé rocked the half time show.  Like a lot of music stars, Beyoncé has been in the movies.  Her most famous role (to us people who like comics…

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Return of a Hero (Movie Edition)

Heroes will get knocked down.  Their morale will drain.  Sometimes they can’t fight anymore. When that happens the hero has to look deep inside, and try to find that special something that made them a hero to begin with.  Once…

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Wrestlers in Comic Book Movies

Last week the movie posters were released for this summer’s G.I. Joe Retaliation.  One of the posters featured was of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Roadblock. Dwayne Johnson also had a recent successful appearance at Wrestlemania, which proved he is…

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Death and Resurrection

It’s Easter weekend and many of you may be recovering from a chocolate bunny induced coma. It’s also a time of year that we think about death and resurrection.  Whether it is in the biblical sense, or the changes of…

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Top Comic Strip Reprints

The year is winding down so Pick Five will be focusing on top items for the remainder of the year to aid in reading and Christmas shopping.  This week: top comic strip reprint collections. 5. The Complete Johnny Comet The…

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Comic Book Mustaches

November is coming to a close, and many men around the country have been sporting mustaches in support of “Movember“. This initiative is to bring awareness to men’s health, and especially prostate cancer. In honour of all these men, who’ve decided…

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Marvel Trading Cards

Like comic books, trading cards were booming back in the 90’s.  Trading cards are very popular now.  Card battle games are everywhere.  Back in the 90’s, cards were very basic and they were just a collector’s card. Impel released Marvel…

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Halloween Masks

On my last Pick 5 I talked about Halloween Costumes.  I listed 5 cool costumes I found on officialsuperherocostumes.com, I was looking at their site more and found some really cool masks.  So this week’s Pick 5 are some of my…

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Halloween Costumes

Halloween is fast approaching and time is running short to find a costume.  If you are creative and can whip something together you’re already off to a good start.  But if you are like me, who can’t sew worth a…

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Superhero Vehicles

Everybody looks cooler when you have a cool vehicle.  Superheroes are no exception.  Here are some of my favourite Superhero vehicles. #5 Fantasticar The Fantastic Four is a family.  Families take vacations and road trips, like to the Negative Zone.  The Fantasticar…

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Top Five Interview Tips

Scoring an exclusive interview, on record, at Fan Expo can be a difficult but rewarding task. The artists and writers featured at this event have a lot of interesting things to say – be it about their current titles or…

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Top 5 Fan Expo Guests

Fan Expo is this week and here’s my Pick Five: top five Fan Expo guests.  Completely my opinion but that is the one that matters most…to me. 5. Chris Claremont I can’t remember the last time I saw Claremont at…

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