Monthly Archives: July 2012
Bagged & Boarded – Issue #9
Listen bud! Bagged & Boarded is fueled by radioactive blood provided by The Silver Snail, your best source for comics and graphic novels in Ottawa. Always U.S. price and always 20% off U.S. price on Marvel and DC graphic novels. Comics Released June 12 2013 BubbleGun #1 (of 5) My first Aspen comic review begins
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MICROSOFT XBOX ONE – Thoughts
So I’ve had a week to fully digest all the information shoveled forward from the big players in the gaming industry. I’m going to tackle Microsoft first. The XBOX ONE is a very sexy looking system and seems to be making a lot of leaps in the home entertainment industry. It’s media partnering and strong
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The Last of Us: Survival Edition – Unboxing & First Impressions
I picked up The Last of Us: Survival Edition yesterday at EB Games and spent a few hours playing it last night and today, though I’m far from finished. I also marveled at the contents of the Survival Edition and took some unboxing pictures. Above of course, is the front and back of the big
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E3 and Thoughts From Me
Wow! That was a helluvan E3! The Sony and Microsoft drama from this show will continue well in to 2014 for sure as they battle it out over the holiday season. Although based on pre-order reports and internet rage it won’t be much of a battle. More like a savage beating topped with a little
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Man Of Steel – Review
Zack Snyder (300, Sucker Punch) delivers a power house of a film that everyone can enjoy. It’s like he reached back and took all the cool elements of the first two Reeves films, blended them, updated them, and added a good dose of adrenaline. Man of Steel is the first summer blockbuster of 2013, and
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300: Rise of an Empire – Trailer 1
Based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster “300,” this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the
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Michael Bay and Ghost Recon
“Michael Bay is ready to go on a covert mission with Ubisoft, signing on to develop “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” into a potential film franchise at Warner Bros., with an eye to direct.” – Variety (Full Article) I’m all over this. I think Bay desperately needs to return to the action genre, shaking the giant
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Trailer 1
The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece “The Hobbit”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continues the adventures of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic
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Bagged & Boarded – Issue #8
HEY! Bagged & Boarded is superpowered by The Silver Snail, your best source for comics and graphic novels in Ottawa. Always U.S. price and always 20% off U.S. price on Marvel and DC graphic novels. Comics Released June 05 2013 Green Lantern #21 The Geoff Johns/Doug Mahnke era is over and the Robert Venditti/Billy Tan
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Bagged & Boarded – Issue #7
Bagged & Boarded – Issue #7 is sponsored by The Silver Snail, your best source for comics and graphic novels in Ottawa. Comics Released May 29 2013 Man, this heat! Summer is officially here in Ottawa and with no air conditioner, all the sticky humidity that is summer in Ottawa is making me sleepy all
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After Earth – Review
M. Night Shyamalan once again bites off more than he can chew proving that beyond his clever twists of past, his abilities as a film maker aren’t up to snuff, and furthermore he’s showing no improvement. After Earth is a mess of bad performances laced with stale, predictable and just bad story telling. A crash
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Bagged & Boarded – Issue #6
Comics Released May 22 2013 I’m a little late this week due to laziness and procrastination. Bagged & Boarded is sponsored by The Silver Snail, your best source for comics and graphic novels in Ottawa. They have the largest selection of indie graphic novels (always U.S. price) and Marvel and DC graphic novels are always
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The World’s End – New Trailer
“20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their
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Man of Steel – New Trailer
Man Of Steel’s release date is quickly approaching (June 14th), so this is probably the final push trailer to solidify it as the must see summer film of 2013. It’s a lot shorter than the last one, but it’s overflowing with action. Zod has come to Earth to find Kal-El and he means business. Threatening
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New Wolverine Trailer!
New Wolverine trailer today… need I say more. More shots of the Silver Samurai and Yukio. “In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his
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