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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…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E05 4,722 Hours
This will be quick as I’m very late getting this out. Â AoS wastes little time in showing us just what happened to Agent Simmons on the blue-tinged planet. Â 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…
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Comic Book Review – Airwolf: Airstrikes
Yet another IDW/Lion Forge comic that exists in a strange netherworld between reboot and continuation (much like the previously reviewed Knight Rider), this Airwolf: Airstrikes trade paperback is an anthology of mostly-unrelated stories starring a helicopter that sort of resembles the Airwolf you remember, starring people that at least have the same names as the…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E04 Devils You Know
The action-packed fourth episode of Agents of SHIELD starts with…domestic bliss? Â A happy Inhuman couple making dinner gets a knock at the door and it’s Alisha, the Inhuman who can make duplicates of herself. Â She’s there to recruit them to Coulson’s team. Â A big change from when she was on the side of Jiaying. Â Unfortunately…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E03 A Wanted (Inhu)man
Agents of SHIELD continues to spin multiple plates each episode, but all of the storylines are still interesting. Â This time around, the ATCU outs Lincoln as an alien threat on TV, and Daisy and Mack try to go to the rescue. Â Lincoln reaches out to his AA sponsor for help, and it seems to go…
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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. Â After an open that shows old English dudes sending some poor sap into a room…with our monolith. Â Mostly so one of them can tell us “no one ever returns!”. Â But we know our Simmons is…
