Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s run on Daredevil is one for the ages. Their run together with the man without fear is a sprawling crime noir epic on the scale of The Godfather saga – minus Godfather Part Three. Plain and simple, their run is a modern masterpiece.
Superior Iron Man #3 Written by Tom Taylor Art by Yildiray Cinar Published by Marvel Comics Superior Iron Man continues with its excellent character inversion of the beloved Tony Stark. The meat of the issue is mostly a single conversation between the titular “hero” and Daredevil. It’s a direct follow up from the last installment …
Superior Iron Man #2 Written by Tom Taylor Art by Yildiray Cinar Superior Iron Man leads right off from Tony Stark getting the entire city of San Francisco addicted to a new form of Extremis, which enhances one’s physical condition and charging it $99.99 a day. The city is thrown into chaos as people fight …
Jumping out of the pages of Marvel’s still ongoing event Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, Superior Iron Man marks a new status quo for the armored hero. Tony Stark was hit by a mental wave created by Doctor Strange and the Scarlet Witch, altering his personality into slightly sinister version of himself from his pre-superhero days.
Hey You Geeks!! This marks the return of the Hey You Geeks column, a weekly deconstruction of the best and sometimes worst that geek culture has to offer. A companion to the Hey You Geeks podcast, each week, the column will examine the news and rumors of the previous week with opinions, predictions and new …
Elektra Lives Again Written and Drawn by Frank Miller Colored by Lynn Varley Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl when her father is killed in front of her and she leaves the country only to become a ninja assassin who reenters the boy’s life after he’s become a superhero and then boy loses girl again …
5. Captain Marvel (Marvel) Captain Marvel #9-#17 Writers: Kelly Sue DeConnick (9-17), Christopher Sebela (10-12), Jen Van Meter (15-16) Pencillers: Filipe Andrade (9-12, 17), Scott Hepburn (13-14), Gerardo Sandoval (13-14), Pat Oliffe (15) Inker: Filipe Andrade (9-12, 17), Scott Hepburn (13-14), Gerardo Sandoval (13-14), Drew Geraci (15-16), Tom Nguyen (16) Colorist: Jordie Bellaire (9-13, 17), Andy …
My Favourite Marvel Runs: Frank Miller’s Daredevil & Grant Morrison’s New X-Men There’s something going on at the House of Ideas that has me a little…perplexed. Let’s just say, for a guy who has a quarter of his body covered in Marvel comic tattoos it saddens me to have to dropped every Marvel comic from …
Vito Corleone, Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White. These are a few of the crime lords that have been immortalized in film and television. But before these characters were created, there was Marvel Comics’ Wilson Fisk more commonly known as the Kingpin. He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr. and …
Most comics fans have a favorite comics series of all time, as well as favorite writers, artists and story arcs. This week I asked the comics team at Sound On Sight to join me in determining what currently running series or ongoing writers run on a long-running series they are most into at the moment. …
With Scott Snyder’s highly anticipated Batman: Zero Year just around the corner and Man of Steel hitting the box-office this month, I felt that it was a perfect time to delve into some of the best re-vamped origin stories in comic books. While many may fall flat (looking at you Marvel: Season Ones) some have …
Eisner week is in full swing here at Sound on Sight and it is my great pleasure to present to you the Eisner Award winning work of famed author Brian Michael Bendis. After starting out writing crime comics, Bendis crossed over to the realm of super heroes with great success. His dialogue focused writing and …
Daredevil: Yellow (Graphic Novel collection) Written by Jeph Loeb Art by Tim Sale Colors by Matt Hollingsworth Cover by Tim Sale Published by Dan Buckley Daredevil: Yellow (January 2003) by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (Superman For All Seasons, Batman: The Long Halloween) is a part of Marvel Comics’ “Color Series” which also features other titles …
Argo Directed by Ben Affleck Written by Chris Terrio USA, 2012 Improbably, Ben Affleck has turned his career around in the last few years from the pit where such cinematic embarrassments as Gigli and Daredevil forever reside. He’s essentially transformed himself from a tabloid cover-star into a poised actor-director who subscribes to the “Hollywood doesn’t …
The process that studios go through to pick a director for a project is often one that’s hidden from public view, with nothing more than rumours of potential hires and people who make a play for the job. This often leads to speculation of what certain films would look like under the guidance of other …
A little while ago, Fox announced that they would be doing a reboot of the Daredevil comic, the first adaptation of which was released in 2003 to mixed reviews but good box office. That film starred Ben Affleck in his dream role as “The Man Without Fear” along with future wife Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, …
The Fox-affiliated production company New Regency, which produced the initial Daredevil has plans to reboot the franchise. What’s worse is the company has hired screenplay writer David Scarpa best known for the awful 2008 sci-fi remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. The first Daredevil film, which was only released seven years ago performed …