Sometimes you don’t have to look far to see just how weird comics can get, and in this episode we’re looking no further than Superman, who probably has the strangest collection of powers and abilities of any character in comics. Now relatively speaking, flight, super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, X-ray vision, […]
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4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 46 – Semi-Retired Comic-Book Tropes
Comic-book tropes change over time so this week Andrew and Rob decided to cast a nostalgic (and sometimes harshly critical), eye over some of those that have or are falling out of use. From talking in the third-person, the mysterious narrator, thought bubbles, and the dreaded exposition dialogue, to sidekicks, […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 45 – Thor: Love And Thunder
SDCC dropped a lot of revelations about Marvel’s Phase 4, and this week we’re focusing on the announcement that Taika Waititi will be directing Thor: Love And Thunder, and that Jane Foster will be wielding Mjolnir. So along with the shocking revelation that George Clooney could have played the role […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 44.- July 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout
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
Keyframe 141 – Burly Men With Powers
The last decade has seen many changes in mainstream media, but possibly the most surprising has been the massive rise in popularity of superheroes – thanks in no small part to the MCU, the DCEU, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. What’s interesting though, is that superheroes have always been popular […]
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 […]