Category: Review
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Pilot Season – The Gifted
The Gifted is a new X-Men-adjacent show on Fox, which I will explain momentarily, and it’s pretty awesome. It’s almost too bad for Marvel that The Inhumans release around the same time, because it’s not even a contest as to which is better. “Adjacent” The first question with most comic book adaptations nowadays is what…
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Pilot Season – The Inhumans
I’ve watched the two episodes of Marvel’s new show, The Inhumans, and I’m reminded very strongly of season one of Agents of SHIELD. With a little of the lackluster parts of Iron Fist thrown in for good measure. It’s not great, but there is the tiniest of hope in me still that it can get…
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Movie Review – Death Note (Netflix)
Oof, where to begin? Â I come to Netflix’s adaptation of the Death Note manga not from any sort of fandom. Â It’s one I was dimly aware of, but haven’t read or watched any of the anime. Â I was interested mostly because of the “Willem Dafoe voicing a death god” angle. Â Having watched it now, I…
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TV Review – Amazon’s The Tick Season One
I mentioned this when I talked about the pilot episode, that it amazes me that The Tick keeps getting chances. Â The latest show, on Amazon, is the third time the hero has appeared on our screens. Â Not bad for a hero that was created a mascot for a comic book shop. Â The comics that came…
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TV Review – The Defenders
With only 8 episodes, I was able to make it through The Defenders over the weekend, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Â It’s not perfect, and does run into some of the same problems as the previous Netflix shows. Â Despite that, there are plenty of really enjoyable bits. The basics behind The Defenders The…
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Movie Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming
I really loved Spider-Man: Homecoming, though I can see why there were a few people who didn’t. Â It’s not what you expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not exactly. Â Sure, it’s a superhero story, there’s Iron Man flying around, supervillains with crazy weapons, the usual. Â But it is counter-balanced by teen drama (and comedy) which…
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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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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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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…