Author Archives: James Johnston

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Columns
Boomb Tube: If This Be Doomsday!

By | Oct 30, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: The Final Showdown! Spoilers ahead! Avengers is off this week, DC Nation is still in limbo until January, and as I write this column, a hurricane is destroying the east coast and the towns around me, four […]

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Columns
Boomb Tube: Yellowjacket? More like Yellowstraitjacket!

By | Oct 23, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: We’re going to party like it’s May 3rd, 2012 because it’s nothing but Avengers!! Spoilers ahead! With DC Nation delayed until January and Ultimate Spider-Man off feeding on some farmers’ livestock, the only cartoon I have to review this week is Avengers: […]

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Columns
Boomb Tube: Negation of the DC Nation

By | Oct 16, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: Phil Coulson and Aunt May! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! Spoilers ahead! This week on Green Lantern: The Animated Series, some of the episodes seem to have been switched out of order since all the characters are now dragon-riding teenagers who look like […]

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

By | Oct 12, 2012 | Reviews

1). The premise is fantastic. Arrow is trying really hard to set itself apart from the super hero crowd, a point that will be elaborated on later. One way they’re hoping to accomplish this is by making Ollie Queen, not necessarily a hero, but a morally and mentally questionable vigilante. Sure, he may be looking […]

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Columns
Boomb Tube: The Doomlot

By | Oct 9, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: Why doesn’t the Red Hulk have a mustache? I mean that’s not a plot point of anything but it’s been bothering me since last Sunday. Spoilers ahead! Green Lantern: The Animated Series starts off this week by […]

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Columns
Boomb Tube: Fist Bumps and Fist Losses

By | Oct 2, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV shows and Ultimate Spider-Man recapped on a weekly basis! This week: the return of DC Nation! Spoilers ahead! Thanks to the return of DC Nation, I can finally talk about two of my favorite shows! The first one, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, marked its […]

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Columns
Boomb Tube: Turn Off the Dark!

By | Sep 25, 2012 | Columns

Welcome to Boomb Tube, where all of your favorite TV adaptions of comics books and Ultimate Spider-Man are recapped on a weekly basis! This week: Captain America runs out of aloe vera and Ultimate Spider-Man somehow doesn’t make a Turn off the Dark joke! Spoilers ahead! Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes starts off by continuing from last […]

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Reviews
Dredd: The Least Dreddful Movie of the Year! [Review]

By | Sep 24, 2012 | Reviews

Seventeen years ago, movie goers were first exposed to the wildly famous British “superhero” Judge Dredd in the form of a movie adaptation starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, and Rob Schneider’s screeching voice. Critically reviled, Judge Dredd was silently sweeped under the carpet and many people tried to forget the cinematic abomination they kept wishing […]

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