The DrkNite's Shrubbery

We are approaching the end of another Hollywood blockbuster summer. And with that comes the usual analysis of box office earnings and journalistic opinions regarding the success of movies. Comic book films in particular. So what's one more piece analysing the situation from someone with no professional journalism experience? The term "superhero movie fatigue" gets thrown around a fair bit these days. Especially when recent Marvel films Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* are unable to break even at the box office. Many things I see online will use the words "superhero fatigue" with other negatives such as "flop" or "unsuccessful." I get confused when I see them when a movie like last year's Deadpool & Wolverine makes over a billion dollars. So I decided to look into it to see if it is actually a thing or just a phrase podcasters and YouTubers are throwing out there for engagement. 2008 saw the release of two significant...

San Diego Comic-Con is on this week. So I figured I would write about how I became the comic book collector I am today. As long as I can remember, I've always been a Batman fan. I would watch the 90s animated series religiously after school. Batman Forever was the first comic book movie I remember seeing in a cinema. I even had my own Batman costume. I can't help my shelf During the 90s, I watched other comic book cartoons, especially the assortment from Marvel. X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man etc. I learnt at an early age there were 2 big comic companies, DC and Marvel, and the shows made by the latter would usually have intros by some old guy with a lot of enthusiasm named Stan. The 2000s rolled around and we were getting live action adaptations of these shows. X-Men and Spider-Man being the stand outs. But it wasn't until much later I decided to dive deeper into these stories and check out the format they originated from. It was the Batman: Arkham Asylum game that pulled me ...