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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Compare And Contrast: Comic Review Shows...

We've had two slick-looking comic review shows launch "recently" on the Internet. Grace Randolph's Stacktastic (for Bleeding Cool/Think About The Ink) and Mask & Cape for Stan Lee's World Of Heroes.

Here are this week's episodes (beware, major Avengers spoilers - if you haven't seen the movie - in Stacktastic):


Which is working best for you?

Vote in my poll on the right-hand side of the blog.

Mask & Cape
is the new kid on the block, but has the cachet of Stan Lee's name being attached to it. That said, the two hosts sometimes have an uncomfortable chemistry and the show's frequent attempts at forced comedy always fall flat with me and are often hard to endure. Of course, it's early days so let's hope Kevin and America grow into their roles.

On the other hand, Grace used to be the "face" of Marvel Comics when she presented their Weekly Watcher show online (and she is a recognised writer in the field of comics), although I do often find myself disagreeing with her some of her casual put-downs of titles I like. But I guess that's par for the course when dealing with review shows.

At the moment, I'd rate Stacktastic over Mask & Cape, but what do you think? Vote in the poll and post your comments below.
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