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Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024)

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March 28, 2024 –

Well that was really fun movie! I maybe should have refreshed my memory since the last movie, but I remembered stuff pretty quickly. And I still think watching the Monarch show would have raised my awareness of Easter eggs and stuff a bit.

The 4 or so returning characters were nice to see. And of course everyone’s acting was great. The monsters were as glorious as ever. The effects were fantastic. I forgot to say that I saw this in Real D 3D. Though I was very surprised that this film, which was filmed for IMAX, didn’t have an IMAX release at this theater. But I assume that since it was so close to Ghostbusters last week, that that had the IMAX screens still. It was still decently 3D in normal 3D.

The plot was as it was laid out in the trailers. I always love diving into lore with fandoms and there was certainly some new lore here. Some of which I predicted before the reveals, but still was a good experience. And that is also why I need to watch the Monarch show since that is essentially all lore. Hopefully I’ll get to it before the next Monsterverse movie.

There were a couple surprise monsters that I didn’t expect, and I enjoyed their presence on-screen. The fight scenes were big and bold and all over the place, such fun! And they looked great in 3D, so I assume they looked amazing in IMAX 3D.

The ending seemed a little quick, only in that I wanted maybe one more scene with the humans to, I don’t know, talk? Not sure, but I didn’t mind that to much. But I enjoyed this. Hopefully we get news of what the next movie will be soon. And I wouldn’t say no to more shows, both animated and live action. The Netflix show for Skull Island was really good, I hope there’s another season of it at some point.

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Mid-credit scene: Nope.

End-credit scene: Nope.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

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March 21, 2024

Well, I was right, I enjoyed this a lot! It had a nice balance of new and old characters that worked very well. It actually went by faster than I thought it would. I probably should have rewatched Afterlife before this since I had to remind myself of who some characters were and if they were in the previous movie. But I didn’t mind that. Also the effects and music were great!

The cast did a great job, McKenna Grace was essentially the lead, and she certainly had the most screen-time. Most everyone else in the cast took, maybe not a back seat, but a passenger’s seat? But it still felt fine. I would hope for more even character development in the next movie since I do enjoy all the cast members. I wouldn’t say no to some of the cast having less time if perhaps some kind of series could be spun out of this. Doing so would give each set of character extra time to be developed. I doubt anything like that is planned, but it would be a fun idea.

The plot is essentially as simple as the trailer shows, and they didn’t deter much from that story. The solution was a little bit quick once that one thing happened, but I didn’t mind too much. I would have liked to see some references to the past when a certain moment happened, but perhaps something like that could happen in a future movie.

Not too much more to say really, I just had a good time with this movie. I have the same positive feeling now, that I did after I watched the previous movie. It’s a good time!

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Mid-credit scene: Yes, just a funny little scene.

End-credit scene: Nope.

March 13, 2024

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The big DC thing to happen this week was the Suicide Squad: Dream Team title that is written by the ever-wonderful Nicole Maines, the actress who played Dreamer on CW’s Supergirl show. Ghost Rider got a special. The X-titles continue to dive into chaos. I’m intrigued by the Thor issue with Gaia. Gwen and MJ battle again in this issue. Clint and Natasha get a new team-up title that I can’t wait to get to.

This 2099 cover is a Windowshades cover. Well-done! I don’t see many non-incentive covers from Gonzalez, they’re great! This MMPR cover is so good!

These next few covers are mostly character-covers. Flatline is such a cool-looking character. Rey has some great covers.

Avery is just a great character and I love the costume design too.

I can’t wait to get to this title. Nicole is such a wonderful person and she’s written a few stories in the past year or two and they’ve been great! I can’t wait for her Dreamer book coming soon too!

Great foil cover! And I’m looking for the incentive cover too.

Great covers! I think I’ll have to look for the other Through The Ages covers for this title.

I don’t tend to get these head-shot covers, but sometimes I go for them.

Nakayama giving us a fantastic cover. I always love his choice of red. Alex Ross is just amazing with this cover, as always. And Artgerm doing this classic Natasha costume cover is great. Love it!

Posters next. So many!

March 6, 2024

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All the DC titles look great. There seems to be a lot going on in Marvel other than all the X-drama. Miles and peter got a team-up title. Gwen got a Giant-size special. Gang War ended with this Daredevil issue. This Venom issue started a mini event between it and Carnage for two issues each. Peach Momoko got a title in the new Ultimates universe focusing on the X-Men. I feel like her universe she started a couple years ago could have been the start of this perhaps? Either way, it’s great that she gets a whole universe to play in. And of course, Kamala got a new miniseries, which as y’all know, is my fave character.

Here’s the next Danino cover for Gargoyles: Dark Ages. This is the main cover for Ultimate X-Men, waiting on the variants. Gotta love the next Bartel cover for She-Hulk. Szerdy tattoo covers are just always amazing. I love them! And the Thanos cover is one of the Marvel Masterworks covers. I’m not going to get all of them, I don’t think, but I will get a few of them. They’re literally masterpieces.

I wouldn’t normally post covers that are part of a collection individually, I will be getting all these as they come. I added these photos simply because I also have the figure that this cover is based on.

Here they are next to each other. They look great! I may do this for the other covers once I get the corresponding figures. I’m not sure, we’ll see. Also, 3 days till the show returns!

Most of the covers minus the incentives. Love these! I forgot that the Stormbreakers covers are almost virgin covers, they look great! I still have the goal to get one of every cover with Kamala on them and all Ms. Marvel issues and variants. That’s probably my only 100% complete collection goal. One day!

I mean look at these!!

February 2024 Late Issues 2

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A lot of covers. All fantastic ones! Also one late normal issue.

The X-Force cover is an homage to the classic Giant-Size X-Men 1 from 1975. That Storm cover is just quite cool. And of course the next Nakayama cover for Catwoman.

A great foil cover for Power Girl by Carla Cohen.

The Moon Knight is a second printing of the issue. So cool! It reminded me of some MTG art. Of course this Fire & Ice cover is an amazing Artgerm for the Sweater Weather set. I didn’t even know about this Ms. Marvel cover for Avengers Twilight 3 from last time. It’s paying homage to the Dark Knight Returns infamous cover. I love it so much! Plus my favorite color is orange.

Damsel (March 8, 2024) (early screening- March 6, 2024)

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It was strange seeing a Netflix film in a theater. But it was a fun experience. We got a free drink and a small popcorn, and we got items to wear and keep. The items to wear were various bows and ribbons, we could make our own bracelets (I didn’t because I had too many things in my hand already), and flower crowns.

The movie was exactly what the trailer suggests. And I enjoyed it! Of course the twist doesn’t hit as well when the movie is advertised as such, but that was fine with me. It just made me intrigued by what the characters were going to go.

Millie Bobby Brown was, of course, brilliant. She did a marvelous job. Most of the movie was her acting by herself, so she had the most to do, but I enjoyed the other cast members performances as well.

The story was well done, there were a couple more twists that I didn’t expect and liked. The music in this film was very well chosen. It wasn’t overly dramatic nor too loud or overbearing.

I will probably watch this again after it comes out, not right away, but I certainly will enjoy it again. I wouldn’t say no to more from this world, though I can’t really guess as to what that would be, but it would be fun I bet. I’m glad I saw this movie, and suggest it.

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Mid-credit scene: Nope

End-credit scene: Nope. As this is a Netflix movie, I didn’t expect anything at the end, but stayed till it all the same.

February 28, 2024

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Waller and Oliver shaking hands, interesting. I hope that Kara and Paige will finally bond permanently, haha. We got another What If Venom issue. We got a Giant-size issue for the FF. This is the Miles issue before issue 300, which is crazy that it’s already that far along! A new Jigsaw pops up in Punisher perhaps. this is the penultimate issue of Gang War. We got this year’s Women of Marvel issue. And a Kamala-centered Avengers Twilight issue!

Here’s another window-shades cover! And I love this rain of arrows cover. And a Taurin Clarke cover for this Thrawn issue is brilliant.

The main cover I got another issue for because Kamala is on the cover. And of course a variant with America on it is a must.

Here are all the gorgeous Kamala covers. Just look at them! And I actually didn’t expect to get that last cover since it’s a 1:25 incentive cover, but it was at the store, so, woot! And I mean, Alex Ross, Taurin Clarke, Daniel Acuña and Phil Noto! Love this costume too!

February 21, 2024

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Same though.

So many of these arcs and events are not even started where I am currently reading, haha. So, I can’t actually comment much on them. Fall of X is still crashing through. These are some of the last issue of Gang War. So many Marvel 97 variants for a future collection post! Though I’m really excited to get to Blasfamous by DSTLRY!

These are two of the sweater weather themed covers. The first one will be in my book cover collection and then Titans one is just Dan Mora’s great art.

Rahzzah is coming in with some Green Lantern covers starting here. This is a connecting cover for Rise, but I just felt like including it here. And the last one is one of the new designs for the cosmic entities of the Marvel Universe.

Here are the Blasfamous covers! The first two are Andolfo covers. And the third one is an Artgerm cover.

I love that these all are wraparound covers. Love them!

February 14, 2024

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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone who partakes.

Goodbye there Bizarro! We got a miniseries for a couple of the villains son’s. I’m wondering what’s up with the big skull with Polaris. The Sabretooth War rages on. A hulk smashes by Gwen. Is Bucky a giant?! Night Thrasher has a new run. And Wanda and Pietro have a team-up miniseries. Gang War continues to almost end.

Avery being all over this cover hooked me to get this A cover. This is a great Sabretooth design. I liked it a lot when I first saw it decades ago. Like I said before, that skull. I love the art! Batwing looks great on this cover! And I mean, everyone looks amazing on this hot spring cover!

Posters! These are all fun covers to have as posters.