ESPN lost its visage of an objective journalistic entity years ago, finally jumping the shark when it pretended to be reporting breaking news on the LeBron James decision while simultaneously making back room deals to air a “Decision” special. But this Tim Tebow bullsh*t has gone too far. Read the rest of this entry »

Never to be outdone by the heads over at DC’s latest comic offering, Marvel Comics and Paramount Pictures have leaked the first trailer for 2012′s web-slinger reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Read the rest of this entry »

Thor has pretty much leap-frogged Spiderman on my “Favorite Superhero’s List.” He stands at No. 2 now, right behind Batman. Honestly, I’m shocked that it’s taken me this long to get hip to something so blatantly cool. The character really doesn’t need much justification: dude’s the Viking god of Thunder, he can fly and he wields a hammer that was crafted in the core of a dying star. He really doesn’t give a f*ck and is probably having sex with your girlfriend at this very moment. Read the rest of this entry »

We can thank Wesley Snipes for all of this. Wait, let me back up.

Fifteen years ago, comic book movies were in the crapper. There was the original Captain America movie that sucked beyond belief, the Batman franchise that Joel Shumacher raped to death, Punisher starring Dolph Lundgren and, of course, The Fantasic Four, Read the rest of this entry »

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If you peel back the layers of most rappers and look past their jewelry, fast cars and outlaw outer shell, you’ll see that, deep down, they’re nerds just like the rest of us. Ghostface probably would much rather be reading an Iron Man comic than finger-banging a groupie right now. Just run up to your favorite rapper and talk about the newest X-Men story arc and he’ll surely high-five you and invite you to his tour bus to smoke tons of reefer and pour wine coolers on naked virgins. Read the rest of this entry »

Since DC Comics are letting their benchwarming crimefighters get some shine while the primetime heros get some R&R, Marvel says “sure why not” and blows dust off of Thor’s hammer to give him a blockbuster opportunity in 2011 all the same. Read the rest of this entry »

The 20 Best Viral Sports Videos on the Internet [Bleacher Report]

18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18 [Marc and Angel] Read the rest of this entry »

When Marvel Comics started dominating the comics scene in the 60s, it was a fresh alternative to the characters found in DC Comics. While the latter had heroes that were aliens and billionaires, Marvel’s heroes were high school students, professors and doctors with normal day jobs and families to feed. The publisher has made a conscious effort to have its characters and storylines reflect current events (for example, X-Men was a reaction to the Civil Rights movement). Keeping up with this ideology, Marvel has decided to bring the recession into its pages.

In another reminder of why journalism is a dead-end career choice, Peter Parker is about to lose his job at the Daily Bugle. In the next few months, The Amazing Spider-Man will focus on Parker trying to save the city while struggling to pay rent and find a job.

Spider-Man can’t find a damn job. The rest of us don’t have a shot.

Keep your head up, though, Spidey. There are tons of unpaid internships out there for you to get valuable work experience while receiving no compensation whatsoever to help fund your living conditions in the most expensive city in the free world.

I’m kinda freaking out here. My world was shaken to the core yesterday when I found out that Disney bought Marvel Comics. The initial reaction was shock, but now it’s time to try to decipher what this means for my awesome addiction to comic books and everything Marvel. Read the rest of this entry »

My feet just had a nerdgasm.

I called Proper over in Cali yesterday looking for these shoes, but all they had left was an 8. So one of you Read the rest of this entry »

TSS never steers you wrong, fam.

How many of you listened and bought the Obama issue of Amazing Spider-Man? If you did, give yourself a high five because these issues are going for upwards of $85 on eBay. There are currently four versions of the book floating around with any variation making some money online. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’ve gotten about five emails over the last few days letting me know about Obama’s appearance in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #583 on Wednesday. I’m gonna say this to you all because I love you like play cousins:

Go. Buy. This. Comic.

I don’t say this because I’m expecting some sort of literary masterpiece. In fact, I’m expecting a pretty cheesy issue given the shitty state of the Spider-Man comic in the last year (including a terrible story in which he made a deal with the devil to forget Mary Jane ever existed…ugh) and the proposed plot.

However, you still need Read the rest of this entry »