Buffyverse Comics Marathon: Conclusion of Angel After the Fall
The Story so Far: I am reading and reviewing the Buffyverse comic series that are canon with the television shows they are based on, including Buffy Season 8, Fray, Spike, Angel & Faith and Angel: After the Fall among others. I will post a final reading list when I’ve caught up to season 10. I’ve included links to my previous posts […]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a complex and satiating adventure.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is, in my opinion, the best of the Spider-Man movies, and one of the best superhero films so far. They break away from what could be argued as the standard structure for a superhero film as much as possible. It is going to be a definite challenger to Captain America in […]
Southern Bastards #1: Deep Fried Crime
Three things frequently come to mind when thinking about the deep south: church, football, and home cookin’. Throw in a bit of immoral lawlessness and you have your recipe for Jason Aaron’s latest from Image Comics, Southern Bastards. Southern Bastards #1 Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Jason Latour Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: April 30, 2014 […]
Stray Bullets: Killers #2
First of all I apologize for what I’m about to write, I know a lot of you really like…You know what? Scratch that. I’m not apologizing. I officially hate this series now. What did I just read? I felt like I just watched Titanic. You know that feeling you get when you just wasted time […]
The Walking Dead #126: A New Beginning?
Wow! I will use the word a lot when talking about The Walking Dead. Because that’s usually the only thing I can say when reading it. Some ‘wow’, with a little bit of ‘holy shit!’ thrown in there for good measure. The Walking Dead #126 Writer: Robert Kirkman Artist: Charlie Adlard Publisher: Image Comics Release […]
Game of Thrones: Oathkeeper
I am starting to think that those White Walkers are up to no good. Also I think we are now set up for a the mid season climax. Here is the problem now, that climax is a wild card. After the fallout from the royal wedding there are so many balls and blades in the […]
Book Review: The Truth About Alice
Jennifer Mathieu packs a punch. Her debut novel opens with rumors of Alice Franklin, the girl they say slept with two guys at a party. The girl who caused Brandon Fitzsimmons to die in a car accident. She used to be cool. She used to be well-liked, so what happened? Setting us straight are four […]
The Quiet Ones: Another Solid Showing from Hammer
The Quiet Ones, out April 25th, is the latest release from Hammer, the same studio that gave us The Woman in Black and Let Me In. With The Quiet Ones, director John Pogue takes familiar elements of the horror genre and weaves them into an interesting tale of academic hubris and the supernatural. I really […]
The Internet is Coming for The IT Crowd
If you missed the announcement yesterday, The IT Crowd has come back, for one last episode. When a marvelous show is canceled, and is brought back to life years later usually one of two things happens. Either the comeback is better than the original, setting off in a new direction, breathing new life into a […]
MegaTokyo Omnibus #1: Blast from My Nerdy Past
Gather around children and let me tell you a tale, a tale from the days of the old internet. An internet that took so long to download a web page, you could go to the bathroom, get a snack and still have to wait for the page to finish loading. An internet you’d have to […]
Lazarus #8: Family is Forever
This week the team of Rucka, Lark, and Arcas give us Lazarus #8: Part Four of the “Lift” arc. Forever and Johanna make progress on tracking down the terrorist cell called Free. The Barrett family continues on their way to Denver and demonstrates how special they are along the way. By then end of Lazarus […]
Nowhere Men: Making All Their Nowhere Plans
Someday our planet might be one where the general public is enamored with the greatest scientific minds of our time. A world where it’s sexy and cool to be an inventor and creator. One where celebrity is about science and not about a pop star’s latest scandal. While we aren’t there yet, fortunately this is […]
Game of Thrones: Breaker of Chains
This is the fourth season of Game of Thrones, as such; I should be used to the ebb and flow of action. The natural rhythm to the writing of Benioff and Weiss is to have each episode act as a beat and counter beat. This episode was a counter beat, in other words, it was […]
Game of Thrones: The Lion and the Rose
This is the episode we have been waiting to see. I am of course talking about the royal wedding of the century. By the old gods and the new what a wedding it was. The fourth season of Game of Thrones jumps into high gear with The Lion and the Rose. This episode, written by […]
Draft Day is commercial yet satisfying.
I did not want to see Draft Day. I am not interested in sports in the slightest, so a film about the NFL Draft was unappealing. The main reason I had for wanting to skip this one is my desire to be objective. If a film subject matter is one I feel I couldn’t be […]