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Dear Outraged Comic Book Fan
Over the past week, a number of stories have broken regarding comic book creators’ rights — or, more specifically, the way that two big companies, Marvel and DC (the sum total of the “mainstream”...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 9: RoboCop
Like The Crow (#10 in our countdown), the action in RoboCop takes place in Detroit — or, more properly speaking, a 14-year-old boy’s nightmare distortion of Detroit, where thugs kill for the sake of...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 8: Sky High
What’s up with the 1980s-themed soundtrack for 2005′s Sky High, a film ostensibly aimed at millennial teenagers? I’ll Melt With You? Everybody Wants to Rule the World? Sure, they’re new versions, but...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 7: Hellboy 2
It’s not uncommon for the second installment of a superhero movie series to be better than the first. X-Men 2, Spider-Man 2, Batman: The Dark Knight. With the necessary world-building, character...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 6: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
In her review of the otherwise-inexplicable manga series Knights of the Zodiac, my friend Shaenon Garrity said, “this is exactly what the inside of a preteen boy’s head looks like.” I swore at the time...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 5: The Rocketeer
When you compare The Rocketeer to the other superhero films from its graduating class (this film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Crow, and RoboCop all fall within a year or two of one another), it’s...
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Top 10 “Off-Brand” Superhero Movies # 4: The Mask
You know and I know that Jim Carrey’s schtick got old. After he played the same character for the seventy-fifth time we were all sick of it. I’m going to say that that was when he played The Riddler in...
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