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Young Justice – Denial

The first six episodes of this season served to introduce the members of the team, their enemies, and mentors.  Every story performed some important function in terms of establishing the foundations of the series.  Eventually every superhero show will have to get down to the business of the team’s everyday war on evil and, unfortunately, this means that most shows will end up doing a few filler episodes where nothing tremendous happens.  Such was the case with this week’s episode of Young Justice: Denial.

Archer – Tragical History

Archer continues its trend of character-based flashback episodes with this week’s “Tragical History”. Today’s episode focuses on the (alleged) sex addict, comptroller Cyril Figus. You could tell right off the bat that this was going to be tragic, not only because of the title, but also because everyone at ISIS hates him. The episode’s main plot focuses on Cyril giving in to pressure and uploading an virus to the ISIS mainframe just so he can look like a hero. What he didn’t expect was people to hate him so badly that they wouldn’t even let him help.

The Intrepids #1 – Advanced Review

The Intrepids, is a new monthly from image comics. Written by Kurtis J. Weibe and drawn by Scott Kowalchuk. The story centers around a group of augmented or altered humans, who fight the good fight against mad scientists. This book plays in a mix of 50’s pulp and 40’s noir. Here you will meet Doyle (the strong guy) Chester (the gadget expert) Rose (rocket girl) and Crystal (the sharpshooter) they were all forgotten children picked by the mechanical engeniring prodigy named, Dante. In the book we get thrown in the mist of a mission, the Intrepids are hard at work sabotaging the plans of a mad scientist. This mad scientist has a love for altering animals into savage killing machines. In this case is a cyber bear, that for some reason looks a bit like a care bear on acid.

Herculian #1 – Advanced Review

Take a trip back to the golden-age with this reprint of Erik Larsen’s Popgun strip’s and his 24-hour comic “Guy Talk.” There are plenty of problems that can be scrutinized with this comic due mostly to its age, but it is still a fun read – the only question is whether or not it is worth the five dollar price tag and if you can withstand the other half of the comic that is offensive. I will be mentioning how the art works with the story but I will refrain from rating it for one simple reason – all art was similar to this comic back in the Golden Age, so if you’re familiar with the style and either like it or don’t care you should be fine.

The first and longest story in the comic is “Guy Talk,” a story flashing back and forth between two brothers having a bite to eat at a restaurant and talking about one’s upcoming marriage and two super-powered beings going at it.

Young Justice – Episodes 1-6 Review

The Cartoon Network has previously taken on DC Comics superteams with the Justice League andTeen Titans.  Justice League Unlimited was the last installment of Paul Dini’s run at the helm of the DC Animated Universe, and it was a relatively mature and serious take on the superhero genre, whileTeen Titans was much more lighthearted.  The latest adaptation of the DC Universe on that network isYoung Justice, which is loosely based on the comic book of the same name, but also has many elements of recent Teen Titan comics, as well as some original characters and interpretations. Judging from the first six episodes which all serve to introduce the main characters on the team, the show is off to a good start, especially for teen viewers.

The 1st Annual Academy Aweirds

Outrage and scandal at the AMPAS! In a bizarre and controversial role, president of The Academy Tom Sherak declared that he was “unsatisfied and bored” with all the nominees for this year’s Oscars and asserted that all the current nominees in all categories would become inelligible for further contention.

Dragon Age: Origins Retro Review

With Dragon Age 2 just around the corner, it’s important to review what we know about its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins, itself a critically-acclaimed dark fantasy epic that followed the growth of the player’s character to save the land of Ferelden from an impending evil that threatened to overwhelm all life. Since its release, Dragon Age has seen a succession of downloadable content that added side-plots to the existing quest, as well as a full-fledged expansion that takes place after the invading darkspawn army had been broken and scattered. While it uses darkspawn as a generic evil force that has yet to be fully explained or described, the races that inhabit Ferelden and the surrounding lands have unique and lush lore that is often different from the more common tropes surrounding fantasy settings.

Power Girl #21 – Review

Pulling off the ultimate disappearing act, Maxwell Lord has
erased his entire existence off of every mind on the planet – everyone except
the Justice League International. However, how will Power Girl recruit more
heroes in believing that Maxwell Lord is real, and is also a big threat? With
Generation Lost/Justice League International coming to a quick stop,
partnerships will be forged and sides will be chosen. Written by Judd Winick
and artwork by Sami Basri.

The issue opens up with Power Girl having a recap of
something that has happened in the previous issue. With the J.L.I. being the
only heroes to know of Max Lord’s existence, they need backup and get some
other, if not all, heroes to remember that Maxwell Lord is one of the most
dangerous men on Earth. Power Girl meets up with Dick Grayson and tries to
convince him that Maxwell Lord exists and that Ted Kord didn’t commit suicide. With
very little success, it turns out that every time Dick remembers who Max is, he
soon forgets the information given to him. Knowing that Dick will never grab
hold of the truth, Power Girl leaves to go get some REAL proof that Ted wasn’t
suicidal.

Film Formulas: Drive Angry 3D

Full of cars, guns and even the devil, Drive Angry 3D feels like a cinematic hodge-podge, like filmmakers/writers Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier took elements from a number of other successful films, threw them together into one script and slapped a “NEW!” label on it.

Dead Space 2 “Severed” Trailer

The day that Dead Space 2 launched, players were told that will be a DLC pack of single-player mission in the near future.  Well the future is March first, when Dead Space 2: Severed becomes available for the surprisingly reasonable price of seven dollars.  You won’t be continuing the story of Isaac Clarke, Dead Space 2’s main protagonist, but rather, you’ll play as Gabe Weller who was one of the characters from Dead Space Extraction (Which was only available on Wii and PS3).