Over the years a lot of classic cartoons have seen live-action adaptations, from the Flintstones to Scooby-Doo the process has become an industry juggernaut, but long before Walt Disney Productions were re-tooling their own animated classics into live-action cash machines they took a swing at taking a beloved cartoon of old and giving it that…
Tag: Super Hero
The Many Faces of Superman
“It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!” It would be hard to deny that there is no character more iconic than Superman, you would have to travel to a very obscure and isolated spot on this Earth to locate someone who couldn’t identify The Man of Steel from even just his trademark symbol –…
The Many Faces of Spider-Man
Everyone’s Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man was created back in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and with decades of incredible adventures under his belt it’s not surprising that he became the flagship character for Marvel Comics, but how tumultuous was his career and how has he fared in other mediums outside the four colour pages? Today we…
The Many Faces of The Incredible Hulk
In 1962 Marvel’s creative giants Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought the world The Incredible Hulk a story owing much to Lee’s love of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and as Ben Grimm’s orange monstrous form in Lee and Kirby’s Fantastic Four comic was so…
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) – Review
After the network’s first attempt at a Captain America movie failed at getting a series off the ground they headed right back to the drawing board for another go, and thus, later that very same year, they took another swing at the bat. It also failed.