Author Archives: Lamar Furbanks

In a world of Blockbuster Avengers movies, whispers of a JLA movie, and an upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show, the shared superhero universe thing is taking center stage. Image Comics is no exception. In light of these phenomena, this issue provides a good Read More

After the adventuring and mayhem and psychic apes and psychic humans of the last few issues, it’s time to get back to some good old fashioned apes acting like savages while thinking they are totally enlightened and advanced. Note: This recap may Read More

Just about everyone who has been on Star Trek — James Doohan, Walter Koenig, DeForest Kelly — has put out a bio. And that's just the original series. But these are the big six. Get started with these, and you'll get all the juicy dirt behind the Read More

Part 1 of this little ditty suggested three episodes from the original Star Trek series you should watch to understand the substance behind Star Trek that has earned such a rabid, multi-generational fandom. Now, let's find episodes of Star Trek: The Read More

Are you a newbie to Star Trek? Do you want to understand the back story behind Star Trek Into Darkness? Here are the Original Series episodes you can watch to to fill you in on why this franchise has withstood the test of time, despite (or perhaps Read More

Indiana Jones was destined to be a timeless icon. Here's a bunch of movies that wouldn't have gotten made if it Indiana Jones had never raided that ark, and why the more you try to criticize them, the more we want to see them. Read More

This issue opens with awesomeness. If you'll recall from the last installment, Omni-Man and Debbie Greyson have been “invited” to live on the moon, since Omni-Man has been exiled from Earth. Of course, Cecil still wants Omni-Man to stick around and be Read More

For anyone who can't get enough Invincible, the folks at Image Comics decided to get off their prolific behinds and give us another full plate of Invincible. But sit back, because there's only one thing you gotta do: let Lamar tell you all about it. Read More

One school of thought is that, if you name the screen adaptation after the source material, you should try to have some kind of resemblance to the original. The other school of thought dictates making a movie or TV show about whatever the hell you feel Read More

So, our heroes have jumped into the river and swam to safety. These are the heroes who were being chased by the angry mob of chimps from that small isolated town with the strange mutated apes in the mountains surrounding said small town. Remember all that? Read More

So there's a theme for this issue. It's love and bonding, that sense of belonging you get when people care about you, and pregnancy. That's four themes, technically, but I'm talking about the thing that is common to all of those. Whatever that's called, Read More

There was a nice little cliffhanger at the end of last issue, with the reveal of what had been causing the town to seem so weird. In this installment, we get a more literal expression of the cliffhanger trope as the chimps throw our heroes over the side Read More