The Review at the End of the Universe
The heroes of the DC Multiverse face the end of everything in Jeff Wamester’s Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three. Adapting an event like “Crisis on Infinite Earths” is undeniably a massive undertaking. The sheer scale of it makes translating it to a different medium a challenge. The Arrowverse’s attempt produced mixed results…
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Autobots team up with new allies to save Earth from an apocalyptic threat in Steven Caple Jr’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The iconic bouncing video game plumber is granted an animated big-screen adaptation in Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Bruce Wayne takes on an ancient evil threatening 1920s Gotham City in Christopher Berkeley and Sam Liu’s Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham.
“Venom” Peter Parker has to deal with the return of the discarded alien symbiote when it takes a new host in the latest Marvel’s Spider-Man. Venom is such a popular character that he’s bound to eventually appear in pretty much any Spider-Man adaptation. There are obviously exceptions to this but most modern takes on the…
“Spider-Man on Ice” Marvel’s Spider-Man puts Peter up against an ice based villain after a criminal steels Peter and Harry’s ice gauntlet and uses it for a one man crime wave. This episode is very much a disposable stand-alone outing where Peter Parker does little more than fight a villain. That’s not necessarily a bad…
“Halloween Moon” Marvel’s Spider-Man takes Peter on a spookier than normal adventure when he encounters a Werewolf on the way to the Horizon Halloween party. An interruption to a “normal” activity has been the opening of so many Spider-Man stories. It works so well because it adds an air of tragic regret to the life…
“Kraven’s Amazing Hunt” Marvel’s Spider-Man puts our hero as the subject of a vicious Reality TV show when Kraven the Hunter sets his sights on the wall crawler as he trains Miles Morales. To its credit this episode wastes no time in getting started. It opens with a fast paced action sequence serving as a…
“Ultimate Spider-Man” Peter Parker finds out he isn’t only Spider Powered hero in town when Marvel’s Spider-Man brings Miles Morales into the enhanced community. This show presents a unique dynamic between Peter Parker and Miles Morales. In the comics Peter started out as Miles Morales’ absent motivation and later became more of a mentor as…
“Stark Expo” Marvel’s Spider-Man introduces the titular hero to a larger world when he meets Iron Man (Mick Wingert) at the Stark Expo. There have been mentions here and there of the wider Marvel universe such as Stark’s name being mentioned more than once and a name drop of the African Nation of Wakanda but…
