Category: Media
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Movie Review – Wonder Woman
We saw an early screening, and I’m happy to report director Patty Jenkins’Â Wonder Woman is everything DC should be doing in all of their movies. Â It’s epic in scope, as befitting one of DC’s trinity of heroes. Â It’s does something interesting with Diana’s origin, managing to homage both her classic origin and the more recent…
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How to Fix Iron Fist in Season Two
Note: potential spoilers if you’re not caught up on the Marvel Netflix shows. I talked about Iron Fist‘s first season already, but I’d like to look ahead to the future of the character beyond his next appearance in the Defenders. Â Barring something crazy in the upcoming Defenders season, we currently have Danny as the Iron…
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Comic Book Review – Black Bolt #1 by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward
Creative Team: Writer: Saladin Ahmed Artist: Christian Ward Letterer: Clayton Cowles The Inhumans are in a tough spot, as far as the fandom goes. Â They’ve been around a long time, created by Lee and Kirby no less. Â But they’ve always been a bit of a niche group, mostly centered around the Fantastic Four. Â It doesn’t…
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Marvel Joins Amazon Prime Reading
Just a head’s up for anybody who likes to get their money’s worth out of their Amazon Prime subscription, Marvel is now partnered with Amazon to have their comics show up there (as well as some selections in Kindle Unlimited and Comixology Unlimited).  Those are cool if you already pay the extra subscription fee for either…
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Marvel’s Biggest Missed Opportunity
It’s kind of shocking how quickly the tables have turned on the big two in the comics industry. Â Just a few years ago, while DC was languishing under the “New 52”, Marvel was having a creative boom. Â Whether it was Matt Fraction and David Aja bringing a fresh take to Hawkeye, their first headlining Muslim…
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Book Review – Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
Red Sister is the start of the latest series by Mark Lawrence, who I was previously aware of but hadn’t yet read. Â When I saw this was book one of a series and available on Netgalley, I went for it. Â What I found was a bloody story of revenge, bathed in the mysticism of a…
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Legend of Korra, Five Years Later
Five years ago, The Legend of Korra first aired on Nickelodeon in the US, as a sequel series to the much-beloved Avatar: The Last Airbender. Â While not the critical smash that A:TLA was, for me Korra stands up well as an amazing piece of storytelling, with gorgeous visuals to boot. In case you’re not familiar…
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TV Review – Iron Fist
I finished Marvel’s latest Netflix series, Iron Fist over the weekend, and I have a lot of mixed feelings. Â I became a fan of Danny Rand fairly late, having read the Brubaker/Fraction/Swierczynski/Foreman Immortal Iron Fist series after loving Fraction/Aja’s Hawkeye and Brubaker’s Cap run. Â That series pushed a lot of my buttons, since I loved…
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Batman: The Animated Series – Robin’s Reckoning
Batman: The Animated Series was an amazing show, and there are a bunch of episodes that frequently adorn “Top x B:TAS Episodes” lists. Â Robin’s Reckoning (in two parts) often rates highly on those lists, and on the 24th anniversary of the primetime premier of part 1, I’d like to take a deeper look. Viewing the…
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Comic Book Review – Mockingbird, Volume 1: I Can Explain
We’ve been over the controversy regarding the series and how much of a jerk some of comics fandom can be, but I really want to talk about the Mockingbird comic, too. Â IT’S GREAT. Â Snarky, action-filled, mysterious, fun. Â Bobbi herself gets to shine – it’s not often she does, having been used quite often in the…
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TV Review – Voltron: Legendary Defender Season Two
If there was one thing that drove people nuts (in a good way) with season one of Voltron: Legendary Defender, it was the HUGE cliffhanger ending.  Surprise allies!  The lions scattered!  Everything is happening!  Thankfully, a second season just recently dropped that wastes no time in cleaning up the dangling threads. Season two, without spoiling too…
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Comic Book Reviews – Goldie Vance Volume 1, The Backstagers Volume 1
BOOM! Studios recently joined NetGalley, giving reviewers access to a selection of their comics and graphic novels, and I immediately requested the first volumes of Goldie Vance and The Backstagers. Â Goldie Vance because of the art – Brittney Williams, who you may know from her work on Patsy Walker, a. k. a. Hellcat!, is the…