Welcome back! Don't forget to subscribe to the Comicgasm RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Why have I not read this comic before?

So, yeah. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim’s a slacker, bassist for a pretty average garage rock band, and he’s kind of a womanizer and he’s a jerk. Also, he’s Canadian. He’s fallen for Ramona Powers, an American girl who’s a ninja delivery girl for Amazon.ca. She has seven evil exes. To win her love, he must defeat all seven exes in combat. (continue reading…)

How many movies translated from comics, games, old cartoons, etc. has a cast that caters to its fans? Not many I assume.

The thing is, movie companies are always just about making PROFIT! So they go overboard in catering to the target market and thus we have an American Son Goku, a frail looking man as Eddie Brock and Ben Affleck as Daredevil.

And this is why The Tekken Movie BLOWS me away. I assumed an American would be playing Jin blah blah blah…

And I was 50% right! He’s an American-Asian martial artist – which makes it even better! This is Jon Foo as Jin Kazama.

I was with David Nakpil when we checked out the full cast – here are the ones that got our minds blowing!

Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima – remember the 1st Mortal Kombat movie? He was Shang Tsung. Yes he’s still buff. And yes, he’s much older than that picture now.

(continue reading…)