Oh no, here we go with another comic book movie. Wait a minute, it’s not about any estab­lished Mar­vel or DC char­ac­ter and it is not a remake (about the first no-remake this year); maybe this one has hope. In fact, it has way more than hope—Kick-Ass does exactly what its title sug­gests. The premise is beyond sim­ple: just about every kid...

Oh no, here we go with another comic book movie. Wait a minute, it’s not about any estab­lished Mar­vel or DC char­ac­ter and it is not a remake (about the first no-remake this year); maybe this one has hope. In fact, it has way more than hope—Kick-Ass does exactly what its title sug­gests. The premise is beyond sim­ple: just about every kid...

With the pop­u­lar­ity of comic movies and lack of cre­ativ­ity from hol­ly­wood a new trend is start­ing. That trend is movies based on niche char­ac­ters. From Spawn to Con­stan­tine to Wanted to the upcom­ing Jonah Hex and Preacher niche comics are becom­ing the new “it” thing to make movies from. While I can give hol­ly­wood shit for the...