Art by Menton3
Two of my favorite things are heavy metal music and comic books, so whenever I hear that a band writes songs based on a comic (like Iced Earth did with Spawn) or a musician is making comics of their own (like Tom Morello or Claudio Sanchez) I’m curious. The latest collaboration between a band and comic book creator is Matt Miner (Liberator) and Earth Crisis for Liberator/Earth Crisis: Salvation of Innocents. (more…)
Have you felt someone was trying to keep you from the love of your life? Someone is. And if you have the potential to be President of the United States, someone definitely is. They are called the Adjustment Bureau, which is also the name of a new movie from Universal Studios, based on the Philip K. Dick short story, “Adjustment Team.” (more…)
By Todd Matthy
Everybody has their opinion about the finale to one of the greatest TV shows ever, LOST. Some were disappointed while others think it was the best ending ever and some were just…lost (yes I went there). Anyway, we all have our personal interpretations so I’ve decided to share mine with you. As a literature major, science fiction fan, and writer I came into with the realization that I would on some level be disappointed. Why? Because we’ve reached the end of a story, a story I, like so many of us, had my own theories and personal interpretations of. A story that brought hours of conversation with fellow fans to see how similar or different my interpretation was from there’s. When you put personal investment into a story, you will always wind up a little disappointed by its ending. Why? Because the ending is not what you wanted it to be. Sometimes you invest so much time into something you don’t want it to end, because the ending is the author’s final statement on a work, and what he wanted to say isn’t how you took what he said. This is the dilemma LOST faced and the creators ended it the only way they could with an ending that reminds me of the conclusions to CS Lewis’s The Last Battle, the final book in The Chronicles of Narnia. (more…)
Here are a couple new articles posted on Metal Machine.net. Such features include how I met Lemmy from Motorhead, my open challenge to Sebastian Bach and Skid Row, and my opinion on the Disney/Marvel deal.
Here are several articles I’ve written for the Comix411 subsite of Gearlive.com. Most are reviews but there’s a good amount of commentary in there too… (more…)
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