Fan-Made Star Wars Video Chronicles The Growth of Han Solo Throughout the Films

*Brief spoilers in video if you have not seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens* A fan made a video featuring Star Wars‘ lovable scamp Han Solo and the results are pretty remarkable. YouTube user r3ndos pieced together various scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy and a few clips from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to show the evolution of Han Solo. Starting with A New Hope, our first meeting of the rogue smuggler shows a cynical, loner, pirate who only looks out for himself and his best interests. In The Empire Strikes Back, we see Han softening his his outlawish

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review: AGP’s – Monster World #3

Someone’s been holding back some past secrets dealing with the monsters before and it’s not quite who you would expected it to be! On the front lines of WWI, the soldiers from both sides would take breaks from the fighting during times of holidays (a true story for you non-history buffs). During one of the peace time breaks the American soldiers would be told of the frightening tales of ancient monsters of old that would haunt these same battle fields. The American thought that was just Germans trying to spook them, that was until they actually seen the monsters! As a very young Barrymore

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review: AfterShock Comics – SuperZero #4

Dru is having another one of her ideas, as her dreams are now leading her desires of gaining super powers into dangerous grounds. With an idea of using the help of solar radiation waves to obtain them. Just like a superhero family from the comic books did. Dru thinks if she finds her way onto a launch site, all her plans will fall into place….. As we’ve seen in previous issues, not everything goes as planned in the superhero creation world. Still itching in spots from the ant bites inflicted a few issues ago in that origin attempt, we see Dru still has not learned her

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Finding Molly” #2 From EMET Comics

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Finding Molly: An Adventure In Catsitting, a title from EMET Comics, an indie publisher created to inspire and empower female artists and creators, has released their second issue of this fun romp of a struggling art grad, forced to live at home with her parents and their favorite feline Pishi, while still searching to find her own in a difficult industry with which to break in. Be sure to check out PopCultHQ’s review of Finding Molly #1. PopCultHQ Reviews Finding Molly: An Adventure In Catsitting #2 from EMET Comics… What makes this this title great is the obstacles, struggles, situations, and encounters

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Overtaken” #2 from Aspen Comics (Out 3/30/16)

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Overtaken #2 arrives in stores this coming Wednesday, March 30th from Aspen Comics. PopCultHQ obtained an advance copy to review and tell you about this new series from writer Frank Mastromauro and artist Marco Lorenzana. Here’s our look at Overtaken #2… A man desperate in his attempt and finding the whereabouts of his vanished wife. Despite police records of the disappearance, Will Hardin is determined to locate Jesse at any cost, even to the point of doing some investigating of his own. Meanwhile, Jesse is seen on an off-world post gathering data in extreme conditions. Her exploratory spelunking leads her deep

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Bloodshot Reborn” 2016 Annual #1 from Valiant

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“What is he? Some kind of albino samurai or something?” Well, you could say that. Bloodshot Reborn 2016 Annual #1 comes out this coming Wednesday, March 23rd, and it is 64 pages of fun! Consisting of four individual stories, the annual is filled with the great talent from Valiant contributing to these off-the-wall, but highly enjoyable tales. BLOODSHOT WAS THE PERFECT LIVING WEAPON. A nearly indestructible killing machine powered by billions of nanites that give him superhuman abilities. Long before he was REBORN, Bloodshot carried out hundreds of brutal black-ops missions for the paramilitary organization Project Rising Spirit. These are the recently declassified files

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PopCultHQ Exclusive Interview with Gotham’s “Bruce Wayne” – David Mazouz

  Since the inception of the DC Comics TV show Gotham on FOX, it has steadily gained a ravenous fan following. The show that emphasizes the side of the city from law enforcement’s perspective has also surprised many with the way that it has wonderfully portrayed classic Bat-rogues. Transforming comic book villains of old into an updated look and feel, making them quite relevant to even today’s overly critical standards of vastly different comic followers. One of the other great surprises to the show for me has been the addition and use of actor David Mazouz, who plays a young Bruce Wayne,

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “X-O Manowar” #45 from Valiant

Arriving at your LCS this Wednesday is the part three of “The Kill List” story arc in X-O Manowar #45. Writer Robert Vendetti continues to excite readers with this intense story pitting Aric and Ninjak against a slew of Vine plantings and an uprising from Commander Trill against the High Priest. An infiltration at the installation where the plantings gather in order to achieve a collective consciousness leave many of the Vine members dead. Slaughtered, all in the name of a greater good (Trill and the Vine). As the massacre is being pinned on Aric, the upheaval continues in the Vine’s collective consciousness.

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Geek Girl Chicago Controversy Follow-up Article – What is the Truth?

Truth Truth is a vital element in reporting and too often it is blatantly ignored in order to provide sensationalism. But… Truth can also vary with circumstances. Perspective, personal experiences and memory can all affect what is perceived as truth by different people. A perfect example of how time and memory can affect the truth and can be seen totally different by two people is the controversy caused by Lauren Faits of Geek Girl Chicago. I covered the controversy back on February 10th. In the article I tried to be as fair as I could to both sides, but to

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Bigfoot – Sword of the Earthman #4” From Action Lab

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PopCultHQ continues its look at Action Lab Entertainment’s Bigfoot – Sword of the Earthman with issue #4. Over the next couple of days, we will have for you our reviews of all four available books in this title. No worries. No real spoilers, but will certainly be sure to discuss the progression of this series and, by the looks of it, the countless ways this futuristic tale could go. Feel free to read our review of issue one, issue two and issue three.   PopCultHQ Review – Bigfoot – Sword of the Earthman #4 Enter Turonia! Bro, this place is going to trip you out! The Earthman and

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