Category: Media
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Things I Want from the New Bryan Fuller Star Trek Series
The news dropped today that Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) will be the showrunner for the new Star Trek series set to premiere on CBS next year, before moving to the CBS All Access paid subscription. Â My enthusiasm for the new show had been stifled by the mostly mediocre movies and the fact that I’d…
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Should I Read It? Secret Wars (1984)
I know what you are thinking – didn’t we just leave this party? Â And the answer to that is…complicated. Â I am talking about the original Secret Wars from 1984-1985 today, one of the very first big crossover events at the big publishers. Â It debuted 32 years ago, though you can’t tell from the May date…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #4
The fourth issue of The Vision is one of contrasts, something Tom King and the team have mastered so far. Â We see the ideal for what Vision was hoping for when all this started. Â The kids playing football in the yard (with humorous synthezoid banter reminiscent of Charlie Brown and Lucy), his wife in the…
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Should I Read It? – Marvel’s Civil War
This is the first in a recurring series where I look at an older set of comics (either an event or a series) and decide whether it’s worth tracking down. Mentioning the Civil War comics among comics fans is sure to elicit a strong response – usually negative. Having heard of that for years, when…
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SyFy’s The Expanse
I’ve been a big booster of The Expanse books for a long time (note that I’ve been acquainted with one half of the author team that makes up James S. A. Corey since I’ve been on the internet), but I haven’t yet reviewed the TV show. Â Hey, I’m a busy guy, and there’s a lot…
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Comic Book Review – Secret Wars 2015
Sometimes, the heroes can get a happy ending. That’s my takeaway after reading Secret Wars #9. Â Sure, they saved the multiverse, put things back the way they are supposed to be, but Secret Wars really felt like a love letter to Marvel’s first family. Â At the end of all things, we get Reed and Doom…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #3
What weirds out Tony Stark? Â It’s not the sight of a female synthezoid in lingerie, though that DOES happen in The Vision #3. Â No, what shocks Tony is the lengths Vision is going to in order to bring back his daughter. Â Vizh explains that some of her nerves went incorporeal to dodge the Grim Reaper’s…
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How to Fix the Fantastic Four
I finally broke down and watched last year’s Fantastic Four debacle. It’s terrible, joyless and soulless in a way no movie with “Fantastic” in the title should be, let alone anything with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the DNA. You can’t blame the actors here – we know every one of them can act.…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #2
King, Walta, and Bellaire do it again, as the second issue of their new series following the Vision’s attempts at family life continues with another dynamite issue. Â There’s a lot to take in – Vin nearly strangles a kid at school asking about his sister (who nearly died after the Grim Reaper’s attack in issue…
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Book Review – Archivist Wasp
For months, one of my online friends has been recommending Archivist Wasp to pretty much everybody. Â It was on my list to check out some day, but when it went on sale a few weeks back she decided to just gift the book to a few of us and be done with it. Â I’m very…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #1
It’s not surprising in the least that the Vision would get a title in Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” lineup. Â He made his big-screen debut in this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron after all. Â When this sort of thing has happened before, you have often seen changes made to the comic book version of the character or…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E06 Among Us Hide…
This show, man. Â It gets you turned around. Â It became clear that Lash wasn’t just some random person – Andrew was a possibility to be the killer Inhuman, but I dismissed him. Â But there you are. Â And this reveal leaves me with a ton of questions. Â Is he one of the recent Inhumans created by…