Author Archives: James Johnston

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Boomb Tube: Kraven Your Attention

By | Feb 5, 2013 | Columns

Welcome back to Boomb Tube, where we recap your favorite comic book animated series! This week: Young Justice and Green Lantern become somehow sadder and Ultimate Spider-Man makes a lot of cat jokes. Last week, Green Lantern ended with Aya being disintegrated by the Anti-Monitor. As sad and emotional as that was, this is a comic […]

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Five Thoughts on Arrow’s “Vertigo” [Review]

By | Jan 31, 2013 | Reviews

1) One overacting villain! Ha ha ha! So this week’s episode introduced Arrow’s version of Count Vertigo. Here, he’s a drug dealer who saw Bane in The Dark Knight and thought “Yeah I can do that”. He talks like he learned how to read from a Highlights for Kids magazine written by one of Quentin Tarantino’s monologues. I won’t lie: […]

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Boomb Tube: “Aya Carumba!”

By | Jan 30, 2013 | Columns

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here we recap your favorite comic book animated series! This week: I’m suing Green Lantern: The Animated Series on a sexual harassment charge because it feels’ed me up. Green Lantern: The Animated Series had a great week, as Hal and the gang visited the Red Lanterns’ world to keep the word mum on […]

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Boomb Tube: I See Your True Colors

By | Jan 24, 2013 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube! Here we talk about all of your favorite comic book related cartoons! This week: the return of Ultimate Spider-Man. On the latest episode of Green Lantern, Sinestro finally showed up! After stealing a prisoner from one of the numerous spider-prisons hanging around this show’s galaxy, Sinestro, who (praise every deity ever) […]

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Reviews
Five Thoughts on Arrow’s “Burned” [Review]

By | Jan 18, 2013 | Reviews

This week on Arrow, Firefly strikes Starling City, Detective Lance is amazing, and Tommy throws a fireman party which doesn’t sound like what you think it is. 1). Firefly has the greatest redesign. To be perfectly frank, I thought John Barrowman’s double role as Evil John Barrowman/Archer-Rival was going to be a tough job for […]

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Boomb Tube: Despero Measures

By | Jan 15, 2013 | Columns

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we chronicle and give recaps for the various comic book related animated series on the air. This week: DC Nation makes its long-awaited return! Spoilers ahead! This week on Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Razer has been kicking back with the Blue Lanterns for a while in order to control his […]

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Boomb Tube: Restoration of The DC Nation

By | Jan 8, 2013 | Columns

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Welcome to Boomb Tube! Here, we chronicle and give recaps for the various comic book related animated series on the air. This week: DC Nation makes its long-awaited return! Spoilers ahead! Oh and details about the plots too. Green Lantern: The Animated Series came back in very strong form by continuing […]

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Boomb Tube: Why You Should Watch Young Justice

By | Jan 2, 2013 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube! Here, I chronicle and give recaps for the various comic book related animated series on the air. Unfortunately, due to Cartoon Network putting DC Nation on hiatus for months and Marvel’s cartoons in between seasons, I switched focus for the past few weeks towards live-action abominations of the past like Generation […]

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Boomb Tube: Generation X (Part 2)

By | Dec 19, 2012 | Columns

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! The weekly column chronicling comics’ effects on television and, more recently, the utter horror of made-for-TV movies from the 1990’s. This week: we conclude our look at 1996’s Generation X.  When we last left off, Max Headroom had just caused all of his potential investors to violently vacate their bowels at […]

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