Now here is what should have been issue 25 of X-Men Forever, even at the end its says, End of Volume 1, but this issue didn’t fit the flow and feel established by issue 24.

Giant-Size X-Men Forever #1 gives the reason why Professor X will not present in Volume 2, well at least not for the first few arcs.

Apparent the last time the X-Men were in Space and ran across the Shi’Ar, Charles monkeyed with the security systems and left them unwillingly open to attacks by the Skrulls, Good work Chuck! So the Shi’Ar come to Earth looking for Charles to bring him back and fix the problem he caused. Upon leaving he gives Scott, Cyclops, full and complete control of the X-Men and the School.

There is also a couple of pages used as setup for the first arc in Volume 2.

With one lone director in charge of the Consortium, we don’t know who it is though, she lets SHIELD know that the X-Men are no longer to be trusted and something has to be done, and then SHIELD gets the Avengers on the case, and with the Continue Reading…

I never had any intention to pick this up when I original heard about, but then I saw that it was drawn by Mike Allred. If you don’t know who Mike Allred is, shame on you.

izombie is the story of Gwen, a gravedigger with a few interesting twists, in a town with a good couple of turns. Her best friend is a 60’s mod ghost, a were-terrier has a massive crush on her, and vampires run a paintball course. Oh.. and Gwen herself is a zombie. She needs to feed on a human once a month not to turn into a mindless zombie, but it does come with a price, after eating the brain of the recently deceased, she is entrusted with helping out the person achieve a peaceful slumber after death.

I am assuming it is different for each brain, we aren’t told but in issue 1, she must get vengeance for a wrongful death.

Yeah, this book is messed up, but it is written in such a way that it feels pretty organic and of course, having Allred on art helps out so damn much. He could draw poop throwing poop at other poop and I would still enjoy it as much. Continue Reading…

When it comes to X-Men, I am probably the last person who would want to talk to about them. Yes, I can name most, if not all of the X-men Characters, but if you want to know about the continuity and the ins/outs of relationships of the characters, I may kill you. Serious.

XMF #23 is the second to final issue of this run (they are doing volumes, Vol 2 starts in June) and not a single answer gets answered, but thankfully no new questions are raised as the X-Men conclude their confrontation with the Neo-Sentinels, The Consortium, and try to stop the Plaque -X Cannon that would wipe out every mutant on Earth.

Some rather big things happen in the issue, as you can probably tell from the cover image. Everyone’s favourite blue-furred mutant genius, sadly, dies. I still think there could have been someway to have save him, Jean Grey could have put a TK shield around and protect, but he gave himself up for the greater good of mutant kind.

Also, a shocker of shockers, Mister Metal Pants Tony Stark, dies as well. I think Continue Reading…

‘But this is a Disney movie, what’s it doing here?’ I hear you say. To which I say settle down children and listen up. It’s surprising what a Jazz playing crocodile will make you forgive.

I went in to this fully expecting to end up spewing hatred toward Disney, because this happens to be my very favorite fairy tale and we’ve all seen what the Disney treatment does. Truthfully though the tales we know now are much different then the classic Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which I also blame Disney for, so I decided to bite the bullet and watch it.

We all know the tale or some version of it right? Good.

So this version has a bit of role reversal, well a lot really, and lots of kissing too, which I kinda like. Anyway in this one the prince is the one who must get over himself and because the girl he kisses isn’t a princess, she turns in to a frog. Makes some sense, which is new for Disney. It’s nice to see some character development on the prince for a change, usually the prince charming of these movies is pretty flat ‘he’s perfect’ and that’s it. He reminds me of Puss Continue Reading…

Well, it has come to this, reviewing New Moon but the sad thing is.. I wasn’t really dreading it. As much as a pile of shit the first movie was, I wanted to see how badly the fucked up this one.

Edward leaves Bella, after a close call incident with the Cullen family and it turns her whole world upside down. Heart Broken, Bella turns to Jacob, her best friend, to fill the void left by Edward. As time goes by, Bella learns that there’s more than just vampires in the little town of Forks.

I was surprised to find myself actually engaged in the movie this time around. Having a better script writer and director really helped New Moon move along at really brisk speed and not cringe at every damn word that fall outs of the actors mouths.

The greatest thing that they did was take Edward out of the movie at 20 minutes in and not bring him back till the last 20 odd minutes. Those 40 mins are the only parts of the movie that actually dragged, proving without a doubt that Robert Pattinson is a crappy actor. Taylor Lautner and Kirsten Stewart really bringing Continue Reading…

I’ve been waiting for this for awhile. I sadly did not follow the previous Jack Staff series and I really wish I did, but I am so glad to have this comic in my grubby little hands.

What’s really nice is that this issue sets up everything quite nicely for those who have never read or even heard of the series before. All the characters are introduced, their motives for what the are doing are explained, mysteries are set up and Jack Staff barely even appears in the books except a flashback, nicely done Paul.

The writing is sharp and engaging, each character has their own developed voice, but mind you they have been around for awhile already.

The artwork is brilliant. I love Grist’s work. Efverything is very simply drawn but at the Continue Reading…

Imagine my surprise when I get home from being away for a few days to find another Asylum movie sitting in my mailbox. I was pretty stoked. I dug Sherlock Holmes and I was pretty sure, like 80% sure, that I was gonna like whatever they sent me this time.

I opened the box and pulled out Meteor Apocalypse, right away I liked the title. Fur sure stuff was gonna get blown up with meteors crashing into the Earth. Second thing I noticed was Claudia Christians’ name on the box. I was even more stoked, I’ve liked her ever since I saw Babylon 5 and The Hidden. I was ready to sit down and watch this movie.

The premise of the movie can literally be summed up by the on box description; “A gigantic meteor enters Earth’s orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.” Yep, that pretty much sums it up, well, there’s also a guy David, played by actor Joe Lando, looking for his family when a meteor crashes into a local water supply and anyone who drinks the water ends up getting poisoned and then dies and his daughter ended up drinking the water, gets quarantined along with his wife and he tries to find them. Yep.. that sums it up maybe a little better.

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I remember seeing the solicit for this, and thinking it was just a one off making fun of the industry and I really had no interest in actually picking it up. I would flip through it but it’s a 4 dollar 32 page one shot, which to me is a bit of a rip off.

Thankfully writer Rich Johnston was kind enough to send me a preview copy of the comic to review for us here at Wander Tech.

Chase Variant is a Government Assassin, 9 were created but only 2 remain and every other Government in the world wants her and will stop at nothing to get her. That’s the basic story but on the bottom of each page is a card game going, which relates to what happens on the page above it.

I was a little confused about the card game at first til you realize that the card game is really determining the story. Its kinda neat.

I completely brushed this comic off at first sight, but now having actually read it, I would really suggest picking it up, as it is a great read. The artwork was pretty good. Saverio Tenuta and Bagwell do a great job bringing Chase Variant to life and as an artist I have never seen before, I would love to see more from them, outside of Heavy Metal.

I asked Rich if there would be a possible ongoing series if this one shot does well and he said ” I’d love to take Chase on an long adventure through many gaming styles…” I would love it too.

Chase Variant is out Feb 17, so look for it. And grab both covers if you can. Its by Rob Liefeld and we all love Rob.

For years, comic book companies have tried to put out anthology collections and 9 outta 10 times, they completely fail. They pair up subpar writers with subpar artist on D-List characters, it’s a recipe for failure.

4 years ago, Image released Popgun. A collection of independent creators, and some better known ones, doing short 2 – 30 page stories of varying genres.

I was hesitant to pick up the book based on its price point, 29.99 USD, about 40 CDN. And the fact that its filled with unknown creators but I had 100 bucks in gift cards from my birthday so I thought why not? I was able to get them for less then 20 bucks CDN from Chapters online store. You can’t beat that!

What really surprised me overall, is that there wasn’t a single story I didn’t like in all three volumes. Yes, there was some gnarly artwork throughout, but over all it was pretty good.

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If you’re like me and have been collecting comics since you were 11 yrs old, you’ve read something from pretty much every company out there and you most likely remember the hoopla about Image Comics. I was there for probably the first 2 yrs of the company, but I was burnt out from the constant stream of spin-offs, one-shots, the mini series and whatever they could throw out and stick to the masses.

I dabbled here and there throughout the years but my interest in Image was gone. Continue Reading…