Book Review: Foundations in Comic Book Art
by Karl P. Madsen, Editor-at-Large Growing up, I believe most of us wanted to be artists at some point, and if you read comic books, you had to draw Batman or Spider-man. If you were like me, when you realized…
Geek Gift Guides 2013
The smell of Thanksgiving dinner lingers in the air, the stores are decorated for the next holiday, and the sale ads fight for prominence on the computers, television, and our mailboxes. But you still need to buy a gift for the person whose favorite events have the word “Con” at the end, and believe that San Diego should be the destination of an annual pilgrimage. ComicOnline’s annual guide is back to help you shop for the geeks in your life, this year in partnership with our awesome friends at Weird-Girls.com.
Geek Gift Guide 2013: Hard Rockin’ Holidays
by Karl Madsen, Editor 1. Black Oak Arkansas – Back Thar N’ Over Yonder – So, in the 70’s there was this group that set the trends for groups that followed: The three guitar line-up of Lynard Skynard, the husky…
Interview With Max Brooks
It was at the 2013 Emerald City Comic Convention that I first heard about the Max Brooks project for Avatar Press Extinction Parade. This tale combines the concept of zombies, vampires, and war. A couple of weeks ago I…
DVD Review: The Collection
The previous movie told the tale of Arkin, a petty thief who agreed to break in to one more house in order to help his ex-wife out of a financial scrape. The problem is that he isn’t the first intruder. The serial killer known simply as The Collector has booby trapped the house in order to have his way with the homes inhabitants. He’s called The Collector because he keeps one person from each invasion in a trunk. Guess how Arkin makes it to the sequel?
Sounds Good
Sounds Good by Karl Madsen Do you miss the good old days of passionate, blues driven rock? The music where each instrument has character and a place in the song? Well, I found a five piece, out of Austin, Texas,…
Blu-ray Review: War of the Dead
In 1939, along the Russian border with Finland, Nazi Germany begins secret underground “Anti-Death” experiments on captured Russian soldiers. Two years later they abandon the experiments. All records are destroyed overnight by direct order of Adolph Hitler. The test subjects…
Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Headbangers Holiday Gift Guide
The Headbangers Holiday Gift Guide by Karl Madsen, Editor It’s that time of year and you’re wondering what to get that guy in the mail room with the studded leather choker, or the nephew that wears nothing but black and…
Shock Value: Let You Entertain Me
First things first, since no one had a better name for this I’m keeping Shock Value as the title for this venture into opiniondom. I’d also like to say hi to everyone that read my first article (I’ll call this…
DVD Review: Bait 3D 2 Disc Set
by Karl Madsen, Editor Not only did Jawsmake people afraid to go in the water, it started a many decades’ long run of ocean creature movies. Giant sharks, prehistoric sharks, mutant sharks, and hordes of sharks. The bar was also…
Shock Value: Hi, What gives me the right?
Hi, I’m Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline Editor, comic geek, music aficionado, and horror fan, and this is my first shot at a blog. The reason I’m writing this is to answer questions I get asked periodically, and also as an introduction….
DVD Review: The Glades Season 2
by Karl Madsen, Editor How is it that there can be so many police shows on T.V., and yet every fall new cop shows get aired and every spring some of those shows get renewed? Do you ever wonder if…
Blu-ray Review: One for the Money
by Karl Madsen, Editor I have to be honest, when I first heard that there was another Katherine Heigl project coming out I did what many others did – I had a few laughs at the project’s expense. Then I…
DVD Review: Haywire
by Karl Madsen, Editor
Remember the first time you see a movie that’s told in a non-traditional fashion? For many in the movie viewing public, it was the classic Tarantino flick, Pulp Fiction that indoctrinated us to the alternate story telling styles. Now, the Steven Soderbergh thriller, Haywire, uses an unusual style to tell the story of a black ops soldier on the outs with her company.
Haywire follows the last official mission of Mallory Kane (Gina Carano – Blood and Bone) that is meant to be her last mission, ever.
Blu-ray Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
by Karl P. Madsen, Horror Editor
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The sequel to Human Centipede (The First Sequence), Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is a unique format. Instead of building the second movie off the events, and timeline, of the first film, this sequel uses the First Sequence as the catalyst for the events of the Full Sequence. That’s why this film is 100% medically inaccurate instead of the first Human Centipede’s 100% medically accurate status.
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