We at Comicgasm feel that geekery has permeated all facets of pop culture by now. We see comic book movies dominate the summer box office, nerd-oriented shows air on TV, and it’s very rare that you find a single person with no knowledge at all of one single comic book character. With this, it’s not surprising at all to find musicians everywhere writing ballads for their favorite comic book characters. Every Monday, we at Comicgasm are going to feature a song from our favorite nerd rock musicians.

Kirby Krackle stands out from most nerd-rock bands because, aside from writing really good lyrics, they are actually good musicians. Their catchy hooks and technical riffs really stand out, and if you listen to their songs without paying attention to the lyrics, you’d think this is some regular rock band playing on mainstream radio stations. Aren’t you glad they’re writing songs about Wolverine, the Transformers, Green Lantern, and The Great Lakes Avengers?

Here’s their latest single, Super Powered Love, off the album of the same name. This may not talk about a particular superheroine, but this is a great nerdy song just the same. Enjoy!

Okay, so it’s no secret that the recent Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Except for Bim of Comicology, who seems to have genuinely enjoyed it. As for us Comicgasm writers, the biggest question in our minds when we left the theater last Saturday was will we get a non-comic book adaptation of Green Lantern that actually gets it right? You see, First Flight wasn’t that good and Emerald Knights was a great adaptation of the comics, but it was made for the hardcore fans, not for people who know nothing of Hal Jordan and his balls of emerald energy. (continue reading…)

I haven’t really been shy of telling everyone how much I love Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s epic miniseries chronicling the Man of Steel’s final days, All-Star Superman. There’s really no doubt about it: ASSM is the best Superman story ever, bar none. It takes all that is great about Superman (and his many incarnations and versions) and condenses it into twelve amazing issues. Morrison and Quitely cut to the heart of the character and present it in a way nobody else can. It’s no secret that we at Comicgasm are Grant Morrison fanboys, but what the hell.

However, All-Star Superman is such a dense work that I really find it hard to imagine how anyone can translate the story into a cohesive movie, much less retain everything that makes it so great. I’m a huge fan of Dwayne McDuffie, but even with him writing the adaptation’s script and with Bruce Timm as producer I wasn’t so sure. ASSM was 12 issues of Superman thinking of ways to solve problems, being nice and kind, and generally avoiding punching stuff unless the situation really calls for it. That would be a pretty boring way to pad out a movie. So color me pleasantly surprised when the animated adaptation of All-Star Superman delivered. (continue reading…)

We here at comicgasm believe that diversity is important! So now, we are proud to announce that Comicgasm now has 20% more weeaboo and hipster! Please help me welcome our two new writers!

Meet Shinji. I really don’t know anything about this guy except that he lent me his awesome V for Vendetta mask. Also, he sings for Ade’s band. What’s that, Ade? He writes for http://pelikula.tumblr.com? Wait, we have a guy who actually knows how to write on the staff now? Oh snap! Oh, and I’ve been told that he’s gonna bring the ~*~INDIE~*~ to comicgasm.

Meet Iñigo. He’s a weeaboo. He does weeaboo things and writes about weeabo stuffs. He’s also an aspiring writer(omg another one that can write!) and a chess master. Think of him as another indie guy, except he writes about japanese mangoes.  Also, our fourth MTG player in the crew! Woohoo!

So there you have it, watch them write about stuff nobody has even heard of! Comicgasm: Now indie as fuck!

PS. Ssee the Comicgasm crew(or maybe just me, we’re lazy fucks)  at Komikon 2010!

Hi! This is Ade and RJ. We here at Comicgasm like to pretend that we are serious bloggers with serious taste. With that said, we made this post just to say that we will NOT make a review of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse because it didn’t have any sex scenes and/or nudity it is beneath us.

Instead, we’ll just post screencaps of badly shaded nude Supergirl and Barda wearing only towels.

(continue reading…)