Maschera Gialla (Yellow Mask)

Hey guys,

in a week without any relevant hero news I've decided to talk to you about a comic book which I stumbled upon recently called Maschera Gialla (Yellow Mask). Last month on my way to London, I met a comic book artist who told me about this thing he was working on. He's a from Naples (Italy), very talented dude who on the flight to London made me in less than a minute a green arrow drawing on a small piece of paper.

 This drawing that he made really got me interested in checking out the work that he had been doing and that's why I started reading a couple of issues of this comic book. We usually think of comic books as something confined to the USA , we think of DC and we think of Marvel but I've really been impressed by how talented these guys are. The author of this comic book is Davide "DADO" Caporali and the guy that I met works closely with him. His name is Giovanni Fubi Guida a really talented young man. The comic book tells the story of a kid from Rome, he's a pizza delivery guy named Max, who happens to find a yellow Mask on his way home from work. This mask gives him strange powers which he cannot control, it is the mask which controls him and not the other way around and so he's the typical anti-hero. He's not your tipical hero he sometimes uses his powers for good but he also uses them to become famous and notorious.

The nice part about all of this is that the mask only gives him one power at a time and you never know which one he will get. Things can go crazy in the blink of an eye.

I've only started reading it so I cannot tell you more about it but as I've already said I really like the work these guys have done and if you too wanna check this comic book out then click right here:

It's free.   http://mascheragialla.com/

Obviously the comic book is in Italian but I encourage those of you who do not speak Italian to check it out anyway because it's really cool!!! You can also check out their facebook page here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/mascheragialla?fref=ts

If you guys decide to check it out, leave a comment below and tell me what you thought about it.

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Flash tv series trailer review

After Arrow season finale, a new trailer for the Flash tv series has hit the web. The trailer was quite long, almost 6 minutes of excitement. If we think about it this is the first time ever that two Dc characters with two different shows are in the same universe. Never before have we had these types of crossovers and this could be the beginning of something great. The trailer basically describes the origin of the flash with some clips from the mid season finale of arrow. 

One of the best parts of the trailer was when Barry decides to test how fast he can run and maybe not too many of you noticed that he decides to test his speed at the Ferris Air Testing Facility which is the company for which Hal Jordan works for. Wouldn't it be cool if we got to see Green Lantern pop up in Central city?  

After all it has been established that Coast city exists in this universe. Another bonus of the trailer is that we see Stephen Amell  reprising his role as Green Arrow in the first episode of this brand new series linking the two shows together. I truly hope that we'll see characters from one show pop up in the other and vice versa. However, considering the limited number of cameos between the originals and the vampire diaries I highly doubt that we'll see frequent crossovers. After hearing Barry talk about his childhood on Arrow and after watching this trailer we all know that Professor Zoom isn't that far along. 

So what did you think about it? What do you expect from this show? Leave your comments down below!

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Arrow season 2x23 review

Hye guys,

Unfortunately The 23hd episode of the second season of Arrow was also the season finale which means that now we will have to wait four months before watching the first episode of the third season. 

This final episode was breath-taking this is why I'll mention the negatives first and the positives later. As for the negatives the only thing that could have been improved was to have had Green Arrow and Deathstroke fight with their masks on. Apart from thaT I was a bit disappointed about the fact that Laurel didn't take any significant steps towards becoming the Black Canary. Apart from these two minor negatives I thought the rest was fantastic. I loved the fact that Diggle split up to go and free the suicide squad in order to stop Amanda Waller from levelling Starling City. Too bad he didn't also open the cell where Harley Quinn was locked up. Meanwhile the rest of team arrow joined forces with some members of the league of assassins led by Nyssa al G'hul. Their help was inevitable to inject Slade's Army with the cure. Seeing Nyssa fight alongside The Arrow, the Canary and Roy (who received a special gift from Oliver) got me so pumped up! However one thing was to kill or cure Slade's brainless men but another was to defeat Slade. Oliver had to outsmart Slade and so he decides to do so by using the hidden cameras that Slade had placed in his mansion against him. It's Felicity in the end who cures Slade and therefore gives Oliver a fighting chance.

The ending was quite unexpected, Oliver decides not to kill Slade but exiles him back to the island, and we also discover that 5 years earlier Oliver met Amanda Waller who brought him back to the mainland, to Hong Kong.

One silly thing I woul like to ask Oliver is how does he intend to feed Slade in that prison, it looked to me that he was the only inmate in that prison so unless Oliver travels daily to Lian Yu Slade is going to face a slow and painful death.

Anyway I can't wait for Arrow season 3 and just yesterday Stephen Amell has posted a photo of him with Steven McQueen using the hashtag Nightwing. Is this a clear sign that we are going to see Nightwing next fall on Arrow? Let's hope so!

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Hey guys,

it's been a while now since it was announced that the highly anticipated Man of Steel sequel featuring Batman has an official title which is 

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. 

I wanted to wait to give you my opinion because I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I have to admit that I am still a bit confused about the title. It sounds great, even the second part "Dawn of Justice" which is a clear hint at the Justice League makes it sound like the beginning of something great however we all know that when you use a movie to set a franchise that particular movie does not turn out good. (See Iron Man 2) 

I don't have any problems with the fact that Batman's name comes first even though it's a Man of Steel sequel. This could either turn out a great movie or a giant flop so we'll just have to wait and see. The title or the bat costume, or even the batmobile are not indicative of the quality of the movie but so far the movie looks promising. Let's only hope that it will live up to our expectations considering that we still have to wait two more years to see it.

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X-Men Days of Future Past movie review

Hey Guys,

sorry it took me so long to put this up but I finally got time to see it last night so here's my review of the 7th instalment of the X-Men franchise entitled X-Men day of futures past. The movie reunites the cast of the original X-Men trilogy and the younger cast of the X-Men First Class and only the idea of putting together all these actors deserves credit.

Most of the story takes place in the past where The Wolverine travels to in order to save the future. In the future the Mutants and the humans that helped them have all been killed with few exceptions. The sentinels (the robots) created by Trask possess Mystique's ability and therefore they are able to adapt to fight any mutants. This is why Sentinels completely wipe out mutants in the future and Wolverine has to go back to the past and prevent Mystique from killing Trask and start the war between the mutants and the humans.

When Logan gets to the past in his younger body he realizes that many things are different that what he remembered, he has to get the help of Professor X who now walks thanks to a drug developed by Beast which allows him to walk but as a downside takes away his abilities. Once Professor X and Beast decide to help Wolverine they work together to break Magneto out of a very special prison 100 stories below ground in the Pentagon. Magneto was the one blamed for the death of J.F. Kennedy and they locked him away in a prison without any metal. In order to break him out they seek the help of Quicksilver who let me tell you looked amazing. It's not so much his look but his powers that looked amazing. The way they made him look, as if he was bored because things around him were moving too slow was fantastic. He definately stole the show for the scenes he was in, and basically he alllowed Magneto to escape all by himself. There was also a minor Easter Egg when he said "You can control Metal", "My mom used to go out with someone who was able to control metal" a clear hint at the fact that Magneto is his father, they just don't know it yet. With Magneto and Professor X reunited we are presented once again with the never ending clash between the two of them and their ideologies. They both had two ways to solve the problem and when Magneto fails to save the day he realizes that his actions were only leading to the future he was trying to prevent. Mystique realizes the consequences of her actions and decides to save the day for once. I very much like the fact that even though Wolverine is the main character, he does not save the day at the very end.

The movie had some big inconsistencies and continuity problems but once you get passed those the movie is amazing. It did bother be a bit when they didn't explain why Xavier is alive and why Wolverine has adamantium claws in the future.

The ending of the movie is amazing, Wolverine goes back to the future and because of its actions in the past many things have now changed in the future. Beast, Cyclops, Tempest and Jean Grey are all alive and seeing them back at the school was amazing. This feels like the start of something rather than the end and in fact the post-credit scene at the very end gives us a glimpse of the new villain. Apocalypse is coming!

Overall the movie was great , the character development was fantastic, the portrayal of Professor X and Magneto by two different actors was simply epic. Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and Evan Peters as Quicksilver were simply awesome.
I just can't wait for the next movie and I am really looking forward to see the X-Men cross path with the Fantastic Four.

So far this is my second favourite comic book movie of the year and If you guys have been following me for a while you all know which comic book movie was my favourite this year.

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Gotham teaser review

                                  Hey guys,

Jim Gordon

the long anticipated tv show entitled Gotham has now a teaser trailer. I was a bit skeptical at first because there was a lot of mistery surrounding the whole series. I was a bit upset by the fact that the series was being developed by Fox rather than the CW because I knew this would automatically preclude any possibility of crossing over with other DC properties. However now that I think about it, I feel like this is the best thing to do because Gotham in terms of timeline happens way before other DC properties so I think it is better to let them do what Smallville did without any spin-off or without any intrusion from other DC characters. We the story would revolve around Jim Gordon without alluding to Bruce Wayne but luckly they have changed their minds and now we not only have a bunch of Batman Villains as regulars in the show but we also have our very own little Bruce Wayne. 

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I am totally onboard for this new tv show I can't wait until the first episode next fall. The teaser is awesome, I think Ben Mckenzie is perfect for the role of Jim Gordon and so do all Batman villains especially the Penguin. Great casting choices. 

the Penguin

The tone of the teaser trailer reminds me a lot of the Dark Knight Trilogy, and also the music I think is a direct reference to those movies. 

However, I am still a bit unsure about the show in terms of storyline. I mean, are they gonna do what they did in Smallville where they had Clark fight pretty much all villains before he even became Superman? I don't think they'll be able to do that here and there are a number of reasons for that. 

First of all, Bruce is just a small kid, by the looks of it all villains Poison Ivy, Catwoman, The Riddler and the Penguin are older than Bruce. They won't be able to introduce the Batcave or have him fight anyone, he's not like Superman with his innate abilities, he's a human being who had to train for years to become the Dark Knight so I don't think they'll have him fight anyone anytime soon. 

Catwoman

I also don't know about introducing other DC Characters, since Fox is airing the show I don't think they have the rights to other characters and even if they did, do we really wanna see another incarnation of Superman, Green Arrow etc. I mean how many versions do we wanna have over a decade of the same character? People are already complaining about the new Amazing Spiderman Franchise saying that it was too early to reboot and now we get Christian Bale as Batman, Ben Affleck as Batman, and David Mazouz as a young Batman all in a 5 year time span. Don't even get me started about the villains, if they decide to introduce the league of assassins and Raz Al Ghul we might even get in less than 5 years 4 versions of the same character with Arrow already mentioning the leader of the League. 

Anyway, from what I've seen the show looks promising, I really hope they do not make the same mistakes that the CW made with Smallville by introducing so many villains. For those of you hoping that this becomes part of the DCCU, I would say don't get  your hopes up because it seems like all WB does is create self contained shows.

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Arrow 2x22 Review

Hi Guys,
Arrow's penultimate episode of season 2 aired last night and it could have easily been mistaken for the season finale becuase it was breath taking. This 22nd episode witnessed the return of the Black Archer  aka Malcolm Merlin who saves Thea from Slade's men. Great character whose return we were all waiting for. He's the typical bad guy that turns good from one season to another and I've always hated when these kind of characters would be forgiven in the blink of an eye and that is why I like the fact that Thea didn't forgive him even though Malcolm had just saved her life. In the end Thea shooting Malcolm was perfectly understandable considering all Malcolm had done to the city and to his family. However, i don't think he's dead, he has to help Oliver fight Slade so I am sure he'll be back next episode. I have not seen the teaser for next week's episode because I want to enjoy every small surprises that the episode has in store for us.

Also in this episode we saw the return of the Trinity (Oliver, Diggle and Felicity). It had been a while since we had seen some scenes with all of them and I simply eat up every single scene with them. I also have to admit that I was glad Roy was unconcious for the whole duration of the episode. I've had enough of him loosing it every single episode. 

My most favourite moments of the whole episode are the scenes between Sarah
and Laurel. Even though she kinda already knew, Laurel finally discovered Sarah's true identity. She found out about her past and she also discovered the name given to her by the league of assassins. The music which surrounded the scenes with the sisters and all the revelations made me think about the possibility of Sarah dying in the next episode and pass on the torch of the Canary to Laurel. We have seen Laurel recover from her addiction, and at the beginning of the episode when she helped Oliver by shooting an arrow, i think that was a hint at her future as a member of team arrow. 

Anyway the situation is about to get worse, this time around the whole city is at risk, Amanda Waller is ready to level the city in order to kill Slade and his men and Oliver will have to join forces with Malcolm, Sarah, Roy and perhaps some unexpected returns. There are plenty of enemies to fight next week so Oliver will use all the help he can get. I gotta a feeling: next week we'll see Laurel take her first step towards becoming the Black Canary after all there is a reason why Sarah was called only the Canary. All it takes is a little scream!

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