Words By David D.

There used to be a time when reading comic books was seen as a hobby for overweight, socially inept hermits with a large porn collection to make up for lack of a girlfriend or interaction with the fairer sex.
Like ’98, that’s a thing of the past.
Now, comic books have hit the mainstream due to their blockbuster movie adaptations over the past few years. No doubt, we are in a Golden Age for Comic Book Movies…but things haven’t always been this way. Granted, we had some amazing Super-Hero movies back in the day with the Christopher Reeves Superman flicks and the first Batman movie helping bring comics out of the campy “Bam-Holy Corniness” funk of the 60′s.
After the second Batman movie (which wasn’t that great in its own right), things went terribly downhill in a horrible George Clooney-piloted blaze of burning Superpoop. We had the atrocious Punisher movie starring Dolph Lundgren of semi-Rocky fame, the low-budget Captain America debacle, and the Fantastic Four flick that never saw the light of day. Hell, Marvel Comics was even bankrupt for a minute.
But we have one man to thank for the resurgence of the Comic movie genre.
Wesley Snipes and a little project known as Blade. Read the rest of this entry »