Though I respectfully dissent from their conclusions, I can’t say that I disagree with many of the concerns voiced in the above video by our friends at Red Letter Media. The shtick ends and the...
https://blogintomystery.com/2016/03/27/half-in-the-bag-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice/
It seems like we’ve been waiting for this thing forever, and in multiple ways. Superman and Batman have been around for almost 80 years now, and never, not once, have they crossed paths in live...
They might as well just release the movie as a series of jumbled one-minute spots at this point, and let the internet piece them together. Anyway, this last(?) pre-release ad touches on some of t...
It’s somewhat odd that a film that began its marketing campaign with the line “Tell me, do you bleed? You will!” is glomming onto a cereal largely aimed at the younger set, but whatever. Ba...
https://blogintomystery.com/2016/03/21/that-son-of-a-bitch-brought-the-war-to-honey-nut-cheerios/
I’ve never quite understood all the hate for 2013’s Man of Steel, which I quite liked. The biggest of the problems people seem to have with it — the wide-spread destruction and Superman kil...
I liked Man of Steel, Superman’s most recent film iteration. I look forward, with some trepidation, to him (finally) sharing a screen with Batman next year. But no one ever wore the cape and bo...
Note: Due to a recent illness and a subsequent trip down the rabbit hole of the medical system, the blog has been silent for a while now. Since the upcoming World’s-Finest-movie-by-another-name...
https://blogintomystery.com/2015/07/11/will-the-comic-con-batman-v-superman-trailer-make-you-bleed/
It’s not this trailer’s fault that it leaked in the wake of the sunny, nostalgia-laden promo for The Force Awakens, forcing Warner Bros. to put it online ahead of the dopey IMAX screening. Bu...
Superman is the first great superhero, the grandaddy of them all, so it’s therefore somewhat fitting that he’s found himself sung about in more pop tunes per capita than any other comic book ...
https://blogintomystery.com/2015/04/17/5-songs-about-superman-ranked/
Jack Kirby’s sojourn at DC Comics might not have been an unalloyed blockbuster, but it provided a fertile creative soil that helps populate that fictional universe to this very day. Really, whe...
The 1978 Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve/Gene Hackman Superman is rightly considered a classic. It’s a film that combines elements of the David Lean epic oeuvre with comic book iconography, an...
https://blogintomystery.com/2015/02/01/sunday-stupid-brace-yourselves-for-indian-superman/
There was always a ghoulish element to DC’s best-sellingest of best-selling arcs, “The Death of Superman.” A somewhat craven ploy to boost sales and garner mainstream media attention, it ce...
I admit to being no fan of even the moderate changes made in recent years to Superman’s costume, the discarding of the red undies and the yellow belt. A part of that is an innate conservatism �...
Here’s an American Election Day special, folks. People will travel to the polls from coast to coast next Tuesday, holding their noses as they try to decide which utterly contemptible preening e...
Alex Ross has now settled into some vague plateau of ossified veneration, where his superhero artwork is appreciated in a circular way: it’s good because it’s good because it’s good. A cove...
https://blogintomystery.com/2014/10/18/trading-card-set-of-the-week-kingdom-come-xtra-1996-skybox/