To celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home we decided to investigate the surprisingly vast numbers of alternative Spider-folk that infest the Marvel’s multiverse, but after kicking things off in the familiar territory of Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Gwen Stacey, things start going downhill very quickly. Seriously, the […]
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4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 39 – June 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 33 – Spider-Man And His Amazingly Weird Villains
Spider-Man: Far From Home is due out in cinemas very soon, and audiences will finally get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio in all his goldfish bowl glory, but that got Andrew, Mick and Rob thinking about the web-slinger’s vast cavalcade of criminals. So this week we’re ditching the Electros, Scorpions […]
4-Panel Vol. 2 Issue 30 – April 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout
Alternative Continuities In Comics – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 24
After so many reboots, remakes, rehashes, retries and revamps, how can anyone make sense of superhero comic-book continuity, especially where alternate timelines are concerned. Aside from the parallel worlds and changes to history that become part of that particular “universe”, there are also the special issues that are not necessarily […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 22 – Is Alita: Battle Angel A Good Manga Adaptation?
The Hollywood live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s seminal science fiction series Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm), is out in cinemas, but have James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez finally cracked the formula for adapting manga and anime? Andrew, Mick and Rob went to the cinema to find out, but one of them […]