Posts Tagged ‘superheroes’

Avengers Assemble!

Saturday, October 24, 2009 14:37 5 Comments

Being somewhat of a fan of superhero comics, I’d noticed the Marvel Heroes box sitting on a shelf on the very first day I stepped into CarcaSean. It wasn’t until much later that I ventured to ask Sean about it. At that time, he told me that he had only played it once himself and [...]

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A Hero for a day

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 16:22 1 Comment

The bad news is I’ve still yet to receive my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, so no new game for me. The good news is that since I’m leaving on holiday on Thursday anyway, I probably shouldn’t start a new game for real just yet, so I decided to download a free trial for [...]

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The world isn’t ready for the Watchmen film

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:54 1 Comment

We went to watch the new Watchmen film over the weekend, a week after its premiere in Malaysia. We could have gone earlier, but we’d been meaning to go watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for a while now but one thing or another kept getting in the way, so we finally went for [...]

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Heroes continues descent into spiral of death

Friday, January 16, 2009 18:30 No Comments

Since I gushed over the first season of Heroes so much, it’s only fair that I take the time to write about how awful it’s become. My wife and I have just caught up with the first half of Season Three and though it isn’t exactly the debacle that Season Two was, it’s nowhere close [...]

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Watchmen Promotional Posters

Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:36 1 Comment

Check out these Watchmen promotional posters released for the Comic Con. I just love the attention to detail and the little Easter eggs straight out of the comic miniseries in each of them.

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The Golden Age of Comic Book Movies

Monday, July 21, 2008 17:33 3 Comments

I realized after watching The Dark Knight last weekend that ever since Iron Man in May, nearly every movie that I paid to watch in a cinema has been a comic book movie. The sole exception was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but Indy’s roots lie in pulp comics anyway, so [...]

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A Game: Marvel Trading Card Game (PSP)

Saturday, May 17, 2008 16:05 6 Comments

My Magic: The Gathering playing days are long gone and even if I do sometimes cast a nostalgic eye on an exciting new release like the recent Shadowmoor, I know in my heart of hearts that I will never again have the patience and freedom to buy entire boxes of boosters for the thrill of [...]

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