Throwing Popcorn features reviews of all ages shows, movies, theater shows, and performers. Wander over Yonder Disney & Craig McCracken Fans of Cartoon Network’s heyday CARTOON! CARTOON! original shows will recognize Craig McCracken’s name from Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends. This new series is a brightly-colored, high-energy romp through cartoon outer space…
Reel Geek Girl: Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla (2014) Directed by Gareth Edwards Legendary Pictures PG-13, 120 Minutes If you are old enough to remember the old Godzilla movies from the 50s and 60s, this movie is a lot of fun. If you’re young enough to think the old ones were cheesy and the 1998 what-were-they-thinking movie with Matthew Broderick was a…
Nostalgia Nexus
Rom: Space Knight (early issues) Written by Bill Mantil and drawn by Sal Buscema Oh, Rom. You and your melodramatic rants over your lost humanity, your inability to have children, your desire to get into Brandy’s pants. I would never imagined a comic based on a badly designed toy could capture the emotional range of…
Review: Ms. Marvel #4
Review: Ms. Marvel #4 Continuing the review of the premiere arc of Marvel’s newest superheroine, Kamala Khan. “Past Curfew” I did a reread of all three issues before working on reviewing issue #4 so I could go write with my head fully in Kamala’s world. SPOILER WARNING! This series is as much recap as review,…
Readership Response and its Effect on Creators
Reading webcomics is a neat experience, both like and unlike reading comics on paper. Instead of waiting for Wednesday for one week’s worth of monthly comics, many webcomics update weekly, multiple times a week, or even daily, giving a reader a much shortened wait time. Instead of waiting for a graphic novel, a reader can…
Local Gaming Shop Review: Giga Bites Cafe, Marietta, GA
Giga-Bites Cafe 2197 Roswell Rd, STE 101 Marietta Ga 30062 (770) 578-1497 This week has been full of marvelous synergy for me. I wrote a Retrospective on Superior Spider-Man; the day after, comiXology puts the title on sale! A little background on how this review came to pass: Saturday the 26th, I went to…
Cherry City ComiCon Provides Great Example of How NOT to do PR
It is getting to the point, thankfully, where conventions make news when they do something, good or bad, that gets fandom’s attention. Cherry City ComiCon in Salem, Oregon has joined that fraternity, but unfortunately, as a bad example. What has already gone viral — it was trending on Twitter as of April 29th — is that Chana W….
Greg Pak Seeds The Clouds With Hashtag #WhyILoveStorm
A tiny blurb in Previews magazine created a tempest over Storm #1 – a series fans have been a long time waiting for. Series writer Greg Pak expressed why this means so much to him, “I’ve loved Storm since I was a kid biking down to Lone Star Comics in North Dallas to stare in…
A Superior Spider-Man Retrospective
Full disclosure. I am, now, have always been, and will always be a Spider-Man fangirl. I saw the 1966 Spider-Man cartoon when I was four, fell in love instantly, and have never looked back. I hung on through the Clone Saga and gritted my teeth through One More Day. Peter Parker has always been my…
What’s Hot? April 2014
Wendy I’m flailing all over the place over the new Rat Queens trade out this week. Jamie I’m loving the settlement credits I am getting from amazon.com and bn.com — apparently there was something involving the prices of ebooks on the NY Times Bestseller list. So both companies credited me back some of what I’d…
Storm Ongoing Series Coming In July!
That ominous rumble you hear in the distance? It’s not thunder. It’s the applause and enthusiastic response of X-Men fangirls reacting to the news. Marvel’s July solicits include the following exciting information: STORM #1 MARVEL COMICS (W) GREG PAK (ACA) VICTOR IBANEZ CLASSIFIED Sorry, my sisters in Storm love, that’s literally all there is. For…
Review: Ms. Marvel #3
Review: Ms. Marvel 3 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics “Side Entrance” — Part 3 of 5. For those just joining us, “Metamorphosis” is the opening arc to the new Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel title. I’m reviewing the arc issue by issue and as a…