Tag Archives: Funny Costumes

Influential

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 16, 2011

How about a special Friday post? One of the reasons I don’t like being considered a silly writer is that it lowers the bar. Silly is fine, but it’s just a trifling thing. It will always be considered unimportant. And to some degree that’s to my advantage. If someone reads a story of mine with [...]

Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, games | Also tagged Aliens, Amanda Waller, Comic Book Superheroes, Comic Books, Dc Comics, Disappointment, Diversity, Evil Clowns, Excuse, Expectation, Fiction Writers, Free Reign, Notion, Outright Hostility, Strange Humor, Supermodel, Universe, Weird Situations | 10 Comments

Punching Robots from Space

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 23, 2011

Recently, I watched Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam. Despite the title, it’s actually a collection of short animated films of various DC Comics characters. The Superman / Captain Marvel story is the longest bit, and it’s really good. Really, really good. It reminded me of why I like Superman so much. Because Superman is [...]

Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, Writing | Also tagged Animated Films, Capes, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Comic Book Characters, Dc Comics Characters, Fate Of The World, Generalization, Giant Robots, Gimmicks, Incredible Power, Nazi Scientists, Punisher, Shazam, Superhero Character, Tesla, Tidal Waves, Titanic Battles, Utility Belts | 7 Comments

Spectacular

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: December 29, 2010

I started watching Season One of Spectactular Spider-Man. It’s pretty good. It could be great except that I could never get past certain elements of the Spider-Man character. Mostly, it’s that everyone Peter Parker knows seems to either be menaced constantly by supervillains or transform into supervillains. It probably wasn’t intentional. It just sort of [...]