Category: Review

  • Comic Book Review – The Vision #2

    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.  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…

  • Book Review – Archivist Wasp

    Book Review – Archivist Wasp

    For months, one of my online friends has been recommending Archivist Wasp to pretty much everybody.  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.  I’m very…

  • Comic Book Review – The Vision #1

    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.  He made his big-screen debut in this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron after all.  When this sort of thing has happened before, you have often seen changes made to the comic book version of the character or…

  • Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E06 Among Us Hide…

    Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E06 Among Us Hide…

    This show, man.  It gets you turned around.  It became clear that Lash wasn’t just some random person – Andrew was a possibility to be the killer Inhuman, but I dismissed him.  But there you are.  And this reveal leaves me with a ton of questions.  Is he one of the recent Inhumans created by…

  • Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E05 4,722 Hours

    Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E05 4,722 Hours

    This will be quick as I’m very late getting this out.  AoS wastes little time in showing us just what happened to Agent Simmons on the blue-tinged planet.  It starts out as you expect, with Simmons falling back on her training for survival – at first staying near the portal exit in case it can…

  • Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E02 Purpose in the Machine

    Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E02 Purpose in the Machine

    Episode 2, Purpose in the Machine kicks off right where the premiere left off, and keeps up the breakneck pace.  After an open that shows old English dudes sending some poor sap into a room…with our monolith.  Mostly so one of them can tell us “no one ever returns!”.  But we know our Simmons is…

  • Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E01 Laws of Nature

    Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E01 Laws of Nature

    I’ve got a bit of free time on my hands, so I am going to try and write more – and I thought I’d start recapping some of my favorite shows.  First up, Agents of SHIELD! AoS season two dealt with the Inhumans, and the fact that Skye (now known by her real name, Daisy…

  • Comic Book Review – Knight Rider (Lion Forge)

    Comic Book Review – Knight Rider (Lion Forge)

    I’m fairly easy-going about adaptations, especially compared to the internet at large.  Still, there’s something that doesn’t sit right with me about Lion Forge’s version of Knight Rider.  If you squint, it sort of resembles the source material.  There’s a talking car, and a guy named Michael Knight is driving it.  Aside from that, this…

  • Book Review – Firefight (Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners #2)

    I enjoyed the first book in the Reckoners series (Steelheart) despite some silly YA trappings that felt like they were there just to check a box on a form (let’s have some new slang for the kids!) but I’m a sucker for some good comic book action, and I like the hook here.  In Sanderson’s…

  • Lightning Movie Reviews – Ant-Man, Ultron, Minions

    I have some catching up to do, so you get some quick thoughts on some recent flicks. Avengers: Age of Ultron – The first movie was so successful, so it would’ve been difficult to meet expectations here. Ultron definitely was a half-step down but still had some great action and humor. Ultron himself could’ve used…

  • Inside Out and When Marnie Was There

    Inside Out and When Marnie Was There

    I’m late posting this, but I saw both Inside Out and When Marnie Was There with the kids, and boy was THAT an emotional wringer.  But in the best way. Seeing them both that close together makes for an interesting comparison – both movies focus on a girl dealing with the emotions of adolescence. Riley…

  • Movie Review – Tomorrowland

    Movie Review – Tomorrowland

    We saw Tomorrowland, and quite enjoyed it.  It felt to me like a throwback to the 80s kid adventure movies, with a modern budget.  It isn’t perfect, but the visuals and the solid kid actors make it worthwhile. The story centers around two people – Frank Walker, seen both as a 12 year old inventor…

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