The Proper Use of Expanded Universes

I touched a bit on this in my Gears of War 3 review last night, but one thing I’m getting pretty sick of is an overuse and misuse of expanded universe references in video games.  While it’s well and good for video games to develop beyond the game disc and branch out across multiple mediums, [...]

Advertising

Last week, or maybe two weeks back, I forget, I watched this video about comics needing to advertise in order to pick up the new readers they need.  I can’t help but agree with him.  The guy doing the video, Bob Chipman, made a lot of really excellent points about continuitious storytelling working well in [...]

I wonder if Morrison and DC called it Project: One More Day

I was going to write a review of Harry Potter, but I think that can wait. DC announced what they plan to do with Superman with the reboot.  Surprising no one, and seriously disappointing me, DC decided they were going to break up Clark and Lois and reset the entire Superman mythology.  Again. I can’t [...]

Reboots and Continious Storytelling

I was going to do a little filler about rebooting Donna Troy today, but I started thinking about it, and after realizing I didn’t want to do a bunch of research on a character I don’t like very much, I started to think about the nature of the upcoming DC Reboot.  The more I think [...]

Who Needs a Reboot: Jason Todd

Jason Todd is Batman’s greatest failure.  Instead of being able to reform Todd from being a street hood into a real super hero and partner, he wound up getting him beaten nearly to death by the Joker, then blown up.  Batman never managed to curb Todd’s anger and that rage ultimately consumed him, although he [...]

Who Needs A Reboot: Superman

With the DC Reboots a few months away, I figured I’d talk about a few characters that are in desperate need of a real reboot, continuity shuffle or reinvention.  The DCU has a lot of them, and unless I spent every day working on this, I don’t think I can get to them all before [...]

Comic Book Reboots, the Negative

So, on Tuesday, I talked about the positives that can come out of DC’s reboot of their entire franchise.  In the interim, there’s been a few announcements about titles that have been pretty cool.  The new Teen Titans title looks like it’ll be pretty cool, with Tim Drake leading the team along with revamped versions [...]

Comic book reboots, the positive

So, last week, DC announced they were going to reboot the DC Universe or something this September.  They’ve made some mentions of younger heroes, more culturally relevant storylines and new directions for several titles.  Oh yeah, and a slew of new number one issues.  Whether or not this is going to be a full universal [...]

Lost Narrative: Prologue

Over the next couple of weeks, I plan on writing a series that explores the narrative ins and outs of the various fictional media I study.  I’ll mostly be focusing on video games, but I’ll be extending articles to comic books and table top games as well.  While I will be comparing and contrasting these [...]

Suddenly, my junior year of high school seems so much weirder

This is going to be a short little rant tonight.  It’s late and I’m preparing to write something kinda big for tomorrow about something I saw on Kotaku.  Anyway, enjoy my confusion. I think I can officially say “I’m too old for this shit.” At least, I can say it about something.  For anyone too [...]