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Podcast: Pirate Radio- The Time Lards: 1992

  by Mike Lunsford, Editor Welcome back to ComicsOnline Pirate Radio! We’re continuing our flashback to the 1990s called “The Time Lards.” This week’s episode: “Dub and Sub, Jerk/Asshole” Mike, Steve and Kevin hop into the DeLorean to travel back to…

Podcast: Pirate Radio S2 E17 – Comicbook/Superhero Movies

by Mike Lunsford, Editor  Welcome aboard for another great episode of ComicsOnline Pirate Radio. Episode 17 is titled Comicbook/Superhero Movies (Ass to Ass). Mike, EK, Steve, and Erik Meyer talk nerd culture and it’s tendency to rage and troll others. They…

Comics Review: All-New X-Men 37

by Joe Iconic, Reporter Since arriving in the present, Jean Grey has developed a series of new psychic abilities. In the absence of Professor Xavier, Emma Frost has offered to act as Jean’s new instructor. Though Emma’s former bitter rivalry…

Convention News: Oz Comic-Con Melbourne 2014

by Jayden Leggett, Editor That glorious time of year for Melbournians has come and gone again: Oz Comic-Con Melbourne 2014 has blown through the Royal Exhibition Building even more fiercely than the harsh winter climate that Victoria is famous for….

Events

San Diego Giveaway: X-Men Days of Future Past Screening Tickets – Tues May 20

  San Diego! Wanna see X-Men Days of Future Past tomorrow night? We only have 15 pairs of tickets and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Click the link below:  http://l.gofobo.us/bRdjMgVx   Keep summoning your X-Men with ComicsOnline.com on Facebook and…

Movie Review: The Wolverine

When is a super hero movie not a super hero movie? Does the inclusion of characters with strange and supernatural powers automatically consign a film to the increasingly dominant sub-genre mixing the most potent aspects of the science fiction and action categories, or is there wiggle room for a film to defy the tropes of the comic book super hero film as popularized by Marvel and DC in recent years?

The Wolverine evokes those questions despite the comic book origins of its characters and their super human abilities, because at its core it is an action film with a theme that questions the nature of mortality and immortality.

Movie Review: Trance

"Young Professor X" is back to scramble our minds in Danny Boyle's Trance. Simon (James McAvoy – X-Men First Class) is struck unconscious during an art auction heist. When he gets out of the hospital, the art thief gang bring him to a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson – Men in Black II, Clerks II, Sin City II) to try and discover where he hid the £27M ($41.5M) Francisco de Goya Flying Witches painting.

ComicsOnline Podcast S13E12 – Marvel Whoa

SPOILER ALERT!  You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Thirteen. Episode Twelve. Marvel Whoa. Recorded December 13, 2012. This episode Kevin and Dune are joined by Connie, Kroze, Caleb, Mary Anne, and Bill. Topics include a whole lot of Marvel…

Comic Review: Batman #13 and Uncanny Avengers #1

by Terrence St John, Editor-at-Large So I’m a long time comic fan. A year ago I had to drop the habit of hitting my comic shop and picking up my favorite books. I had moved south and had not yet…