A Review by Jesse Baker Released in the United States in 1987, Konami’s “Castlevania” would be part of a second wave of Nintendo games for the NES game system and arguably the crown jewel of Konami’s initial offerings to the video game system. The game would launch a massive franchise…

A Review By Jesse Baker Amazing Spider-Man #93 Review Review By Jesse Baker After what seems like a bit of an eternity, “Beyond” finally ends as does the current “volume” of Amazing Spider-Man. For reasons I don’t understand, Marvel’s opting to reboot “Amazing Spider-Man” with another new #1 and a…

A Review by Jesse Baker Another day, another “Grand Design” mini-series. This time, Marvel Comics and indie comic artist Jim Rugg gives us “Hulk: Grand Design”. The purpose of the Grand Design series, is to allow indie comic creators to remix and retell the classic lore behind major Marvel Comics…

A review by Jesse Baker Red Room: Trigger Warnings #1 Review By Jesse Baker After a bit of a hiatus, we finally get a new issue of Ed Piskor’s snuff film themed comic book “Red Room”, now relaunched with a new #1 and subtitle “Trigger Warnings”. But ironically, the title’s…

A Review by Jesse Baker “Junji Ito’s Remina” A Review by Jesse Baker In the storied bibliography of horror manga artist Junji Ito, one of his most celebrated works has long been unavailable in the US until just recently. “Hellstar Remina”, now rebranded simply “Remina”, has finally received a US…

Review by Jesse Baker Let’s start off with a rant. To be frank, the filler nature of the current status quo fills me with great dread and a lot of nerdrage. After the massive ball of revelations in Amazing Spider-Man #74, we Spider-Man fans have been denied any actual exploration…

A Review by Jesse Baker Welcome to our second installment of Inferno ’21, which is Jonathan Hickman’s swan song for the X-Men franchise. We find out that Destiny was resurrected by Mystique, who was the versions of Magneto and Xavier that were seen in Inferno #1 retrieving a copy of…

By Jesse Baker In it’s original run of ten seasons, Mystery Science Theater covered a wide variety of film genres. From beach party comedies to crime drama to horror and sci-fi and Shakespeare, they made fun of everything. But the show’s most memorable episodes tend to feature films of the…

By Jesse Baker While the vampire genre has a wide variety of quality film selections for viewers to enjoy, werewolf films is a genre with slim pickings. Part of this is due to censorship issues (werewolves ripping victims to shreds would be an instant R-Rating) but also the logistics of…