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Book Review: The Museum of Intangible Things
Fair warning: This is not your typical YA road trip novel. I don’t want you to expect it to be something it’s not. I’m glad that I knew that The Museum of Intangible Things dealt A LOT with mental illness before I started, because it wasn’t what I expected from the cover and blurb, and […]
Angelina Jolie is magnificent as Maleficent
Maleficent was beautifully complex, full of depth, light and darkness. The story, Disney’s latest in a growing vein of films featuring a strong, independent female hero, faltered briefly in the second act, but the third act was as strong as any I’ve seen. Directed by Robert Stromberg, whose first direction highlights his previous visual effects […]
CHEF Plates Up A Sentimental And Fun Meal
Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) is a sub-lebrity chef working in an upscale, but uneventful restaurant, cooking a menu that has become rote, cliche, and lifeless. When the chef and his team, mainly two right hand men Martin and Tony (John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale), have a chance to really shine when local power-blogging food critic […]
A Million Ways to Die in the West finds a dozen ways to laugh
A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane’s epic western comedy presented a million ways to kill a joke. Fortunately, in the barrage of gags enough stuck the landing to keep the film from being terrible. Somehow I suspect MacFarlane understood exactly what he was doing. Comedic the film was all over the […]
Apocalypse Al #3: Hexes, Exes, and One Angry Troll
And, we’re back. Back to some killer dialogue and kick-ass detective work, that is, in Apocalypse Al #3. Straczynski and Kotian deliver both monsters and wisecracks—a few of my favorite things. Apocalypse Al #3 Writer: J. Michael Straczynski Artist: Sid Kotian Colors: Bill Farmer Publisher: Image Comics Release date: April 2, 2014 Apocalypse Al […]
Chew/Revival #1 Crossover: A Delicious Dish
Two of Image Comics most popular titles, Chew and Revival, take on each other’s world in this fun and hilarious cross-over event. Chew/Revival #1 Chew Writer and Artist: John Layman & Rob Guillory Co-creator Revival: Tim Seeley & Mike Norton Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: May 28, 2014 Chew / Revival #1 – […]
Southern Bastards #2: Running Interference
In Southern Bastards #2, Earl Tubbs continues to struggle with leaving behind his hometown of Craw County as the mystery and violence mounts. Southern Bastards #2 Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Jason LaTour Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: May 28, 2014 Southern Bastards #2 – $2.80 Retail Price: $3.50 You Save: $0.70 Who is Euless […]
Trees #1: Warren Ellis’ Trees Sprouts Deep Roots
They’re heeeere! In Image’s new title Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, the “trees” don’t seem to care that we humans are here too. Trees #1 Writer: Warren Ellis Artist: Jason Howard Publisher: Image Comics Release Date: May 28, 2014 Trees #1 – $2.39 Retail Price: $2.99 You Save: $0.60 In Warren Ellis’ latest sci-fi […]
Olde School – A new age of hard knocks
Fairy tales merge with the modern era in Selah Janel’s dark fantasy adventure Olde School. “Caught in a tug of war between past and future, that’s what I am.” Paddlelump “Padd” Stonemonger is a business man first and a troll second. He runs a successful troll bridge that leads to a beautiful clearing and a […]
Black Canary and Zatanna, Bloodspell – Not all magic and fishnets
Black Canary and Zatanna, Team fishnets all the way Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell Writer: Paul Dini Artist: Joe Quinones Colorist: Dave McCraig Publisher: DC Comics High atop the Himalayan mountains two young girls meet for the first time. One is a young unsure magician having what she describes as a sort of magical bat […]
Bee and Puppycat #1 temp space workers for hire
Bee and Puppycat, space worker at their best, well kinda. Writter: Natasha Allgri and Garrett Jackson Artist: Natasha Allgri Publisher: Kaboom! Release Date: May14 Bee was just an ordinary, though not very employable, girl before Puppycat literally fell into her life. Puppycat a disgruntled magical temp worker cat, or maybe a dog, from space . The […]
Axe Cop – American Choppers: Out in Full Force
The imagination of a child can sometimes take us to crazy places. With Dark Horse’s Axe Cop: The American Choppers, we go to the extreme. Axe Cop: The American Choppers #1 Co-Creators: Malachai Nicolle & Ethan Nicolle Publisher: Dark Horse Release Date: May 21, 2014 Get on board with Axe Cop now! Buy […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past delivers thrills, laughs, and Quicksilver.
X-Men: Days of Future past may very well be the best yet of the X-Men franchise. It is, at the very least, the entry I have enjoyed the most. It felt more complete, and well rounded than any of its predecessors. Neither weighed down with origin stories nor over burdened with multiple new characters. Or […]
Buffyverse Comics: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Vol. 2
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 […]
