Superhero movies have become a huge part of the movie industry over the past eleven years.  Horror has also gained a bit more "respectability" within the movie industry as well.  It was only natural- and a matter of time before someone put the two together... An alien spacecraft crash lands on a small farm.  The Beyers find within it a survivor... a baby.  As the boy reaches his teen years, he starts to exhibit strange powers, and the Beyers begin to wonder: Will this child from the stars become Earth's savior...? I can't say enough positive things about 2019's " Brightburn " by James Gunn, Kenneth Huang, and David Yarovesky.  The idea of a "dark" Superman story has been done often enough before by DC Comics in their Elseworlds comics, but this movie takes it to a new level, and makes it much more visceral and fascinating to watch.  The progression of the story is natural and quite believable- pulling you along willingly.  The ...

Growing up, I loved comics.  I especially loved the creepy ones... the odd ones... the weird ones.  DC Comics had one that mixed two of my favorite comic genres: war, and horror. From 1971 to 1983, this comic presented short stories of supernatural war stories.  I rather miss this series, and would love to have it return to publication. Today, I'll be examining Issue 107.  I like the cover art- which was done by the comic legend Joe Kubert.  His art was always so interesting and atmospheric.  The details he put into his panels, the way he used shadows and perspective was just genius. Story One : " Seize the Time !"  In this short story, time travellers from 1989 travel back to the past to prevent the take over of their homeland. This is certainly an interesting concept, and the execution was fairly good considering they only had five pages to tell it.  To be honest, this story could easily be extended to a fairly decent sized graph...