Noir Comic Week: Area 10

For Day 3 of super noir fun time comic happy hour, we're reviewing Area 10 by Christos Gage and Chris Samnee!

Detective Adam Kamen is searching for a serial killer nicknamed Henry the 8th when he has a near death incident: A perp drives a screwdriver through his forehead. Six weeks later, he's all healed up and the killer resurfaces, but Adam has noticed some strange things. He'll uncover a terrifying conspiracy – all coming from the hole in his head.

Sketched Comic: The Midas Flesh

Get out your golden fingers and velociraptor scientists, we're reviewing The Midas Flesh by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb!

Joey, Cooper and Fatima are three revolutionaries looking for a way to overthrow the federation that has decimated, enslaved and ruled over their planets, respectively. Their only hope lies in a secret planet made completely out of gold. Like the Midas of lore, this planet has the ability to turn anything and anyone who touches it into solid gold. Can they investigate and harvest this ancient weapon? 

Snowpiercer

Get out your protein blocks and future crack, we're reviewing Snowpiercer!

After humans have inadvertently caused another ice age, the only survivors are those aboard a train called "the Snowpiercer", that has an everlasting engine and makes one full ride around the world each year. Curtis(Chris Evans) is one of the people on the tail end of the car, those that are the bottom class and are treated as though they're living in an internment camp. But Curtis and others are massing a riot to take over the engine and break the system. Can they pull it off?

Sketched Comic: Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

Get out your rockets and duck n' cover videos, we're reviewing Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? by Brian Fies!

This is the story about a father and son, Pop and Buddy respectively, growing up in the age of rockets and spaceships and seeing how they and the times change with each passing decade.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Get out your robot dinosaurs and gun-swords, we're reviewing Transformers: Age of Extinction!

Cade Yeager(an actual name someone came up with played by Mark Wahlberg), a hapless inventor who is taken care of by his teenage daughter, Tessa(Nochola Peltz), discovers a beat-up truck that's actually Optimus Prime(Peter Cullen). When the CIA want to track down and kill all of the Transformers, Cade, Tessa and Optimus have to go on a journey to unite the Transformers, stop an evil company from making knock-off transformers, and save the Earth from the same bomb that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Seconds

Get out your giant robot dinosaurs and pew pew lasers we're revie-wait I didn't see Transformers yet shit um

oh crap uh shit damn it uh um OK DON'T PANIC

*scrounges around old movies*

Ok um get out your new teeth and burned-off fingertips, we're reviewing Seconds!

*whew*

Arthur Hamilton(John Randolph) seems to be bored of his old life, so he has a sketchy company "kill" him off, completely reconstruct him with plastic surgery, and give him an exciting new life as Antiochus Hamilton(Rock Hudson). But is this really the life he wants?

Sketched Comic: Rocket Girl

Get out your jetpacks and and pink hair, we're reviewing Rocket Girl from Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare!

It's the far flung future of 2013 and teenagers are the new future police with jetpacks and flying cars! But something isn't right, the future shouldn't be this way, so 15 yr old officer Dayoung goes back in time to 1986 to fix it! Will she succeed?

Edge of Tomorrow

Get out your exo-suits and alien blood, we're reviewing Edge of Tomorrow!

Officer Cage (Tom Cruise) tries to escape filming the war effort on the front lines, but ends up getting railroaded into fighting on the front lines instead. After killing one of the creatures, he finds out that he's living the same day over and over each time he dies. With the help of war hero Rita (Emily Blunt) who's been through this before, can he find a way to win the war and break the chain?

Sketched Comic: Federal Bureau of Physics

Get out your, um – physics books? Look, all of this stuff is a bit over my head. Just go read FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics by Simon Oliver, Robbi Rodriguez, and Rico Renzi.

In a world where the physical laws of the universe are broken, there's only one organization to call: The Federal Bureau of Physics. Adam Hardy is one agent trying to keep the world from breaking apart, but he'll soon find out that there's a mysterious group trying to break the laws of physics on purpose!

Under The Skin

Get out your limitless black room with engulfing watery floor, we're reviewing Under The Skin!

Scarlet Johansson plays an alien(?) looking and acting like a pretty girl in order to lure men back to her home(??) for sinister purposes(?!).

Robocop Trilogy

Get out your thigh pistols and jetpacks, we're watching the Robocop trilogy!

Alex Murphy was a model cop who was brutally gunned down and then rebuilt from the ground up as the new cyborg Robocop! 

Sketched TV: Almost Human

Get out your robot cops and cyborg legs, we're reviewing Almost Human!

In the future, John Kennex(Karl Urban) is a detective who generally hates robots and technology. And people. Mostly everything. When an "accident" destroys his robot partner, he's assigned an older model, Dorian(Michael Ealy), that is programmed to have emotions like a human.  Can they put aside their quibbling and work together as a team?

Robocop

Get out your stun guns and robo-cycles, we're reviewing Robocop!

In the near future, robots patrol every country except the USA. But when a car bomb explodes Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), OCP finds its perfect candidate for a new kind of cyborg. But is Robocop more man or machine?

Sketched TV: Space Dandy

Get out your big-breasted aliens and laser blasters, we’re reviewing Space Dandy!

It’s the far flung future and humans are exploring the galaxy, making contact with all kinds of strange alien life forms! Dandy and his crew set out to find and register said new alien life forms to make a quick buck.

Sketched Game: Shadowrun Returns

Get out your Fetishes and Drones, we're playing Shadowrun Returns!

In the world of Shadowrun Returns, you are a Shadowrunner: someone who will do any dirty job for the right amount of money. One of your friends from way back is dead, and you have to find out who killed him for a big payoff! Can you weed out the culprit in this futuristic, fantastic, and filthy world?

Sketched Game: Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus

Get out your wrenches and inter-dimensional devices, we're reviewing Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus!

Galactic heroes Ratchet and Clank are escorting a dangerous prisoner, Vendra Prog, to space prison, when her gigantic ape of a twin brother, Neftin, comes to bust her out. When she threatens to open a portal to another dimension called "The Netherverse", it's up to Ratchet and Clank once again to save the universe from destruction!

Thor: The Dark World

Get out your lightning-hammers and space canoes, we're reviewing Thor: The Dark World!

When Malekith (Chistopher Eccelston), leader of the Dark Elves, returns and wants to destroy the universe with the help of a weapon called the Aether, it's up to Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) to stop him! Can they “Turn Off the Dark” with the power of hammers and science?

Ender's Game

Get out your laser pistols and futuristic tablet games, we're reviewing Ender's Game!

In the future, after a battle with an alien race that's killed tens of millions, the International Military is training children to become the next soldiers and commanders. Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) believes Ender (Asa Butterfield) might be the soldier who can finally put an end to the alien threat.

Riddick

Get out your protective goggles and bone-blades, we're reviewing Riddick!

When Riddick (Vin Diesel) goes looking for his home planet and gets marooned on another, completely different planet, he must find a way to survive and get off the hostile world. And then two groups of bounty hunters show up and everyone pretends they're back in Pitch Black. Some spoilers below.

The World's End

Get out your pints and detachable limbs, we're reviewing The World's End!

Gary King (Simon Pegg) is feeling nostalgic for his happier and fun-filled past when he and his mates tried to complete the golden mile, so Gary gets his old gang back together, including Andy (Nick Frost) and Steven (Paddy Considine). But when they return to their home town, they find that not everything is quite the same as they remember.