by Alan Kistler | Jul 3, 2017 | Comics, Nerd 101
Spider-Man: Homecoming debuts in theaters later this week on July 7 (or July 6 if you’re in certain places). Although this is technically a reboot of the film incarnation of the character, Marvel Studios decided not to spend yet another film focused primarily on...
by Alan Kistler | May 14, 2017 | Comics, Nerd 101
Thanks to the Iron Man films, Tony Stark has become a major superhero around the world. The star of three of his own feature films, he has also been a main character in both Avengers films, the movie Captain America: Civil War, the upcoming movie Spider-Man:...
by Alan Kistler | Apr 23, 2017 | Nerd 101
We tend to marry heroes to a special weapon, vehicle, super-power or fighting technique that they use. Superman flies. Spidey has web-shooters. Batman has his cool car and his batarangs. Wonder Woman has her lasso. Captain America has his mighty, ricocheting shield....
by Alan Kistler | Mar 28, 2017 | Comics, Nerd 101
The late 1980s were full of cartoons and comic books that were, essentially, built around the need to sell toys. For instance, the Transformers and their predecessors the Diaclones were just a bunch of toy robots. It was up to the writers of cartoons and comics to...
by Alan Kistler | Mar 25, 2017 | Comics, Nerd 101
This week, Marvel Studios released new ads for Spider-Man: Homecoming, a movie that might just become the best live-action adaptation of Marvel’s web-slinging wonder. But did you know that Spider-Man, introduced in 1962, wasn’t the first web-using or...
by Alan Kistler | Mar 14, 2017 | Comics, Nerd 101, TV
The planet Vulcan is known to many science fiction fans. No, not the world full of mercury swamps that the Second Doctor visited in 1966 in Doctor Who. I mean, of course, home of Spock from Star Trek. Just as famous is Krypton, the birth planet of Kal-El, known on...
