Announcer: Welcome to Villain’s Lair! With your host, Sonny Calzone! <EXCITED APPLAUSE / PARTY FAVOR NOISES> Sonny: Hi everyone! <AUDIENCE YELLS IN UNISON: “HI SONNY!”> Sonny: It’s lovely seeing so many law-abiding citizens in the crowd today. And hello to you, Mrs. Klondike, you look ever-so-lovely in that mauve shawl. <AUDIENCE LAFFS> Sonny: You know,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Rantquake: The Avengers Movie!
Sleeve Coat: Earth’s mightiest heroes! Coming to the silver screen on May 4th! For the longest time, I couldn’t decide whether or not to boycott this film. I still can’t decide. No Hank Pym? No Janet Van Dyne? Marvel Comics owes me, big time. Buddy Greene: I smell another comicbook movie blockbuster, but a movie without staying… Read more »
Crisis In Continuity!
Crisis In Continuity: Is DC’s Past Doomed To Repeat Itself? Written by Christopher Aaron Reading back on the first issues of Alan Moore’s “Saga Of The Swamp Thing”, I am not only filled with the same wonderful page-turning anticipation that gripped my imagination the first time around, but the experience reveals to me one… Read more »
Panelpalooza: Batman 8
TQQ: Abe Sapien!
THWP: Ahoy there, Abe! It’s been a long time, but still we can’t help but wonder, how much of your “previous life” as Langdon Everett Caul do you actually still remember today? Abe: Wow, he went there on the first question…congratulations. It’s funny, but this topic reminds me of my least favorite episode of X-Files,… Read more »
Super Astrology: Aries
The first installment in our Super Astrology series, read the intro here. By Frank Somma and Laura Ashley Aries live life head first; after all, the ram’s horns are good for more than one thing. A headstrong nature can make any Aries a “battering ram” and anyone who gets in their way is surely in… Read more »
Super Astrology
By Frank Somma and Laura Ashley Super heroes have become an ageless icon of heroics and been heightened to mythological beings amongst their peers in the realm of fiction. Superman and Batman have been a part of children’s lives for nearly a century and Spider-Man along with the X-men have been around for more than… Read more »
Hot Lights: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 8
Story by Tom Waltz Art by Dan Duncan Commentary by Nick “BatKnight” Young Splinter taught them to be ninja teens (He’s a radical rat)! Donatello does machines (That’s a fact, Jack)! Raphael is cool but crude (Gimme a break)! Michelangelo is a party dude (Party!!!)! And Leonardo leads, which he has to do when the… Read more »

