Es-Cape Plan Episode Five: Dice

Why I’m doing this…Previously on The Cape… Today’s episode features some of the creepiest interplay we’ve had in this series, which isn’t saying much since everyone save Trip has been able to interact like normal human beings. Speaking of Trip, we see him and his mother Dana so little in this episode in such disposableContinue reading “Es-Cape Plan Episode Five: Dice”

Es-Cape Plan Episode Four: Scales

Why I’m doing this…Previously on The Cape… This episode doesn’t introduce anyone new, opting instead to take all the elements it’s introduced thus far and shaking them up for what might be its best episode yet. Best of all, Trip and Dana were kept to a minimum. It’s Trip’s tenth birthday and Dana is unableContinue reading “Es-Cape Plan Episode Four: Scales”

Es-Cape Plan Episode Three: Kozmo

Why I’m doing this…Previously on The Cape… All our major characters were detailed in the intro to the last article so we won’t do it again. The only thing of note is that I’ve decided that I’m going to going to go ahead and spoil the Trip and Dana stuff at the beginning, and byContinue reading “Es-Cape Plan Episode Three: Kozmo”

Es-Cape Plan: Introduction

For better or worse, the Marvel Cinematic Universe changed the face of super-heroes in modern media. While there had been a number of successful superhero franchises before it, something about Iron Man captured the public’s imagination in a way that only Batman had done with his 1966 TV series and original quadrology. The major differenceContinue reading “Es-Cape Plan: Introduction”

The Phantasm Comes to the Main Batman Comics

My god it is fitting that I kick off my tenure on The Fictosphere writing about my beloved Batman. News broke recently that Batman writer Tom King will bring The Phantasm, the Batman villain from 1993’s theatrical motion picture Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, into main DC comics canon for the first time in 2020 in the pagesContinue reading “The Phantasm Comes to the Main Batman Comics”