Since the 1990s, anime has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity here in the United States. It’s influenced our media and created a whole new subculture within film and animation fans. However, Anime has not successfully translated to live action movies successfully…until now! With the emergence of Alita: Battle Angel, its possible that Hollywood might have finally found the golden ticket…
Curiosity led me here. Driven by hunger and alcohol, I walked into Mexico and I left a true believer in the mighty Tequila…but on a budget!!! I introduce to you, El Toro Loco in Bloomfield, NJ!!!
New York Comic Con has gone through some changes since I’ve been going such as an increase in security, increased ticket prices, as well as a more stringent process to buy tickets. However it still remains the same nerdy convention I have loved to go since I was thirteen. It wasn’t long after that it would be a given that I would go to New York Comic Con. It had become my own little holiday and I couldn’t wait to celebrate it.
Friday is usually the second busiest day of NYCC as more and more people decide to take a day off from work and relive their pop culture dreams. As for me, Friday was an even more meaningful experience as I was selected by Funko to participate in the ‘NYCC Exclusives’ lottery this year. It was here, around 11 AM that my Comic-Con journey began… for I was a ‘Funko-Mule’
Deadpool 2 introduces the time traveling mutant Cable and the luck manipulating mutant Domino. As this dynamic and compatible duo manage to keep the Merc with a Mouth from dying by the end of the movie, their combination of wits and powers could definitely make way for a real X-Force movie (Credit to Artist).
The last two Marvel movies have left me feeling conflicted. I want to hate them, I want to root against them. I can’t…at least not wholeheartedly. Their actions make me despise them, but their viewpoints make me question real life issues. This feeling of confliction is unusual to feel from a Marvel movie. There usually is a clear cut good guy and/or bad guy, but what are we supposed to do when the villains start to make sense? {Credit to Artist)
Marvel Studios and the Russo Brothers pulled off a feat. They tricked us. Literally. They ACTIVELY fooled the audience leading up to Infinity War’s release. The trailers have scenes with characters removed and/or added, swapped dialogue, and several that don't appear in the movie at all. I also got a few things right. A hell of a lot of characters, and people in general, died. I called that Tony Stark would live to see his nightmares come to pass. And you know what? I got SO MUCH wrong as well. The characters that did die where almost literally the opposite of who I expected. So what’s going to happen to the MCU?
A week has passed in regards to the theatrical release of Avengers: Infinity War. At this point multiple reviews, critiques and analyses of the film has flooded the Internet and all have given the final diagnosis: the film has set the precedent as the movie event of the year. What I haven’t seen, however, is the emotional impact the movie had on the viewers, especially me. With that being said, after watching this movie…. I’m still shaken by what happened in the film… (Credit to Teespring for the image)
Katsuki Bakugo is a young man with the incredible ability to create explosions from his hands. From the anime' My Hero Academia, I believe he heavily parallels Sasuke Uchiha’s rivalry from the modern anime, Naruto. Although Naruto came first, I believe that My Hero Academia’s Katsuki Bakugo is a far better character than Naruto’s Sasuke Uchiha. How could such a new series, one that’s only existed since 2014, create a character better than one that’s been around for over a decade?
