The Mask

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Chris Sims: Welcome back to ComicsAlliance vs. The '90s and our in-depth review of 1994's The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz and a healthy amount of mid-90s CGI. When we last left off, our pal Stanley Ipkiss was in a heap of trouble, with the police investigating him and a bunch of crooks after his alter-ego...

Chris Sims: Hello everyone, and welcome to ComicsAlliance vs. The '90s, our in-depth review series on some of the films of that era based on independent superheroes. Today, we're heading back to 1994 for a sssssssmmmmmokin' review of The Mask starring Jim Carrey...

Movies: Robert "Iron Man" Downey Jr. has read The Avengers movie script and says its going to be fantastic. Well, once he fixes it. Charity: A group of men that includes several Dark Horse Comics employees is participating in Movember, a November-long mustache growing contest to raise money to fight men's cancer...

The Mask has always had sort of a love/hate relationship with Hollywood. The reality-warping face covering's cinematic explosion in 1994 vaulted the property to household name status for some time, but what Jim Carrey gaveth, Jamie Kennedy tooketh away with the Raspberry Award-winning 2005 sequel "Son of the Mask...

What do you get when you cross Dark Horse Comics' green-headed maelstrom of cartoon chaos with one of Hollywood's most pop-culture literate icons Quentin Tarantino? You get Evan Dorkin's satire of cinema "Engloruorioues Mask-Tards!!!" And you thought "Inglourious Basterds" was hard to spell)...