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Who is Captain America?

Any nerd worth his Wizard Magazine subscription considers that question fundamental fan boy trivia. Hell, even your tweenie bopping, Twilight reading little cousin is probably privy to the now mythological origins of the World War II icon and his honorable place within pop culture history. In a decade that’s seen many of our childhood heroes blossom to mainstream recognition, we, the cooperative comic-book collecting community anxiou… Continue

Where is Captain America?

While most of the superhero movies due in the next few years are in the news regularly, Marvel Entertainment/Paramount Pictures’ The First Avenger: Captain America seems dormant. We receive daily announcements on the hiring of C-list actors for B-list roles in Thor and… Continue

Thanks to ever improving technological advances, there’s not much that can’t be done in movies these days. In 1993, Steven Spielberg thrilled audiences by conjuring up accurate depictions of pre-historic creatures, James Cameron resurfaced a doomed luxury liner with pristine detail in 1996 and… Continue

Tonight, the Mrs. will be dragging me to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon to sate her appetite for Pop Watch style vamps. With a Nintendo DS, an iPod and my trusty BlackBerry in my utility belt, I think I’ll manage to come out of the theater with my sanity in tact. My pride – that’s another story, but I digress.

As the week has dragged on, the thought of enduring two hours of tweeny-bopper vamps from Oregon had me q… Continue

It’s been a busy week for superhero news, so let’s start off with the a bombshell:

Sir Ian Mckellen will NOT be reprising his near iconic role as Eric Lensherr/Magneto in the perennially developing… Continue