Category: Review
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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…
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Book Review – Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond
Now that Amazon has a selection of books available to read for free for Prime members, I’ve been going through the categories that interest me to find new material.  Obviously, a book about Lois Lane would do that.  In this case, Fallout is about a teenage Lois in high school, though her nosy reporter skills are…
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Book Review – The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes (writer for Bioware on both the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises) is a somewhat shallow but action-packed novel set in a magical fantasy world. Â Loch and Kail are former Scouts for the Republic who are planning to steal a priceless Elven manuscript back from the man who framed…
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Book Review – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
I got my latest read, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet as a gift, and had a great time reading it. Â The first novel from Becky Chambers, it follows a young woman named Rosemary as she joins the crew of a tunneling ship (basically they make shortcuts through space) as they get a…
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Book Review – Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Carrie Vaughn from friends who read her Kitty Norville series, so when NetGalley had a copy of her new book, Martians Abroad, available to read, I jumped at it. Â I’m glad I did, though the book is not without it’s faults. The story takes place in a…
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Book Review – The Girl With All The Gifts
I am not normally a zombie guy, but I had heard great things about comic writer Mike Carey’s (styled M. R. Carey here) novel The Girl with All the Gifts and when it went on sale, I gave it a shot.  I’m glad I did, as it’s an enjoyable spin on the nature of zombies and…
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Movie Review – Sing
Illumination’s latest movie, Sing, is a song and dance you’ve seen before. Â Heck, the Muppets have done it twice at least. Â Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey as a Koala) grew up loving the theater, and eventually (with financial help from his blue-collar dad) he buys a theater. Â Buster’s not very good at running it, though, so…
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Movie Review – Doctor Strange
I saw the Scott Derrickson-directed Doctor Strange over the weekend, and enjoyed it a lot. Â It’s not going to unseat any of my favorite MCU movies (currently Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians and Civil War) but it was a fun if familiar tale. Â I’ll get all the non-spoiler notes out of the way first: Â the…
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Book Review – Black Widow: Forever Red
Before you start this book, know that while it’s got Black Widow in the name, it’s both about her, and not exactly about her. Â If it might bother you to discover the story is told mostly through the viewpoint of a teenaged girl that has an…interesting connection to Natasha, as some other reviewers seem to,…
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Book Review – Rebel Genius by Michael Dante DiMartino
Rebel Genius is a new book from Michael Dante DiMartino (of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra fame), and if you are a fan of either of those shows, you’ll find a lot to love here. Â In fact, if there’s one negative to the book it’s that it hems a bit closely both…
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Movie Review – Kubo and the Two Strings
We saw Kubo and the Two Strings a while ago, but I’m just gathering my thoughts on it now. Â It’s quite possibly my favorite Laika movie, and that’s saying something as Coraline gets a ton of play, especially this time of year. Â Kubo deals with complex feelings with mind-numbingly gorgeous visuals. Â It’s the sort of…
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New Amazon Pilot: The Tick
The Tick is both blessed and cursed by TV. Â Blessed because very few comics from such an obscure source would get not one, not two, but three tries at a series. Â Cursed, because the first two attempts were both on Fox and had plenty of network interference/mismanagment. Â The third try may just be the charm,…