Category: Review
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Our Free Comic Book Day 2015 Haul!
Above you can see the picks both me and my kids picked out for Free Comic Book Day 2015! Â I didn’t get to get out early so I missed a couple of the free books I wanted (the Dark Horse sampler with the Avatar: The Last Airbender comic, and Terrible Lizard) but we still got…
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Book Review – Star Wars: A New Dawn
Are you watching the new Star Wars cartoon, Rebels? Â Do you want to know more about Kanan? Â Well, it takes quite a while to get interesting, but A New Dawn is your jam. Â There’s insight into Kanan (then under his real name) and his training as a Padawan before Order 66, the first meeting with…
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Movie Review – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
I FINALLY got to see a show at the North Park, and I was thrilled that it was this one, Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.  Isao Takahata’s latest is a beautiful and heart-rending re-telling of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.  One day, a bamboo cutter sees a glowing stalk of bamboo in…
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The Hobbit Movies – Thank God THAT’S Over
I was never your biggest Tolkien fan – I had read the Lord of the Rings once as a kid, but the movies got me back in.  There seemed to be a genuine desire to stay true to the source material, and most of the changes made you could at least make a case for it…
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Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever
The City on the Edge of Forever is often described as the best episode of the original series of Star Trek, and it’s hard to argue against that. Â The script, written by Sci-Fi legend Harlan Ellison, won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1968, and also the Writer’s Guild of America award of…
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State of the Game: Marvel Heroes
Note: Â I looked at Marvel Heroes before, but the game has changed even more since then so I’m starting fresh in this article. I tried Marvel Heroes when it first came out (it didn’t have the ‘2015’ in the name then) but only played about 20 or 30 hours before setting it aside. Â Loved the…
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Movie Review – Big Hero 6
Took the kids to see this at an advanced screening, and had a blast. Â It is technically a Marvel movie, though the book is not exactly well-known. Â Consider this in the vein of How to Train Your Dragon, in that a lot of the same parts are there, but plenty was changed to work better…
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The Legend of Korra Book 3 and 4
The above picture shows a happy time, with Korra and Asami bonding like sisters (or depending on how you ‘ship’, something more). Â It’s pretty much the last happy moment Korra will have in her life. Â I might be exaggerating but not by much. Â Book 4 starts tomorrow so if you aren’t caught up, here are…
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Book Review – Half a King, Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie’s Half a King is my first book of his, and it’s great, if not ground-breaking. Â It follows young Prince Yarvi, who has a withered arm, content to step away from the throne and dive into a life of books and study. Â Not strong enough to fight, he hones his mind, but everything changes…
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Movie Review – Guardians of the Galaxy
I saw an early screening of Guardians of the Galaxy Thursday night, and let me tell you, I had a blast! Â I may have only read the actual Guardians comic that was the biggest influence on this after the movie was announced, but I’ve quickly fallen in love with these a-holes. Â Of course, I did…
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Movie Review – X-Men: Days of Future Past
The X-Men movie franchise has had it’s ups and downs. Â The first two movies were very good despite the myriad changes and tweaks to the characters, while X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were on the rough side. Â First Class was good, but went a long way towards making the continuity issues worse (How much…
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Movie Review – Godzilla
Japanese kaiju (or giant monster) movies have been part of my pop culture since I was a kid, and my older brothers watched the various Godzilla and King Kong movies. Though I probably got the most enjoyment from the Gamera movies as they appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Â Even without Pacific Rim appearing on…