Into the Longbox

Well, I failed to get this out in a timely manner once again! Oh well, 2018 is gone and in the books. The double shipping nonsense has continued and in some cases lead to WEEKLY books! (I’m looking at you Uncanny X-Men). I have continued to buy even more books, if you can believe it. However, my tastes are getting more and more diverse as I still consume a lot of super hero books, but I am also grabbing a lot of other genre books from the independents. Also, apparently, this year was one where I jumped back on to old favorite titles as they either shifted creative teams or came back after a long hiatus. Anyways, without further ado, here is my review of 2018. Dearly Departed (The Comics I dropped this year) Before I get into the rest of my list, a moment of silence for the number of comics that I dropped this year after giving a good go at it: Green Lanterns – DC Iron Man – Marvel Doomsday Clock – DC Astonishing X-Men – Marvel Avengers – Marvel Gideon Falls - Image ...

Seriously, there were a lot of movies in the back half of this year! So with this being another comic book movie, of course I had to go see it. I know Aquaman is a punchline for the majority of the world. but in the comics he's become a much stronger character in the past few years. Honestly, I've really enjoyed him and was buying a number of his issues since the new 52 relaunch. One of the things they got right was level setting with Aquaman. I say all this to say I was somewhat anticipating this movie. I say somewhat because DC doesn't exactly have the best track record. Outside of Wonder Woman, everything has been straight up bad. The less we say about last year's Justice League, the better. I am happy to say that outside of Wonder Woman, this has been DC's best movie since they started their DC Universe line of movies. Granted, I know this is a low bar, but this movie was alright. It was better good than bad. There were certainly some bad parts and I will...

In the past, I would binge these Netflix Marvel shows in a weekend. As life has taken over, I have not been able to watch these at such a quick rate. Also, apparently, I take forever now to post about them! This show has been out for months and I finished it a few weeks ago. What gives?? I'll do my best to share my thoughts in a coherent manner, but I make no promises. The best I can do is think about how I feel about this show after a couple of weeks. Instead of making you wait till the end, I will tell you up front. I really loved this season. It made up for season 2, which I was not a fan of. This show took it back to basics for Matt Murdock. Don't get me wrong, I hate the "Woe is me" hero, but Matt has always been a tortured soul. We get to see him work his way back and I enjoyed watching that journey in the first few episodes after the events of the Defenders mini-series. This season also made me realize that this show is at it's best when the centra...

If you keep up with me at all, for some reason I haven't said anything about this movie. I have seen it. In fact, I've seen it multiple times. Off the bat, that should give you an idea how I feel about this movie. I honestly might put this to the top of my personal Spider-Man mountain over Spider-Man: Homecoming, which until this movie, my top Spider-Man movie. There are so many things to say about this movie and I want to make sure I get all my feelings out there. I generally say this about all comic movies, but I look for these movies to be considered a legitimately good movie, not just "Good for a comic book movie". I am happy to report that this movie is the former. Even if you don't know anything about Spider-Man, I think it explains things enough to get you up to speed. There are a lot of different Spider-Men that show up here and they make sure to give a quick, cool intro about each of them and how they joined the story. With all of this, the movie...