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Comic Book Review – The Vision #7
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Michael Walsh Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles The Vision #7, as usual, plays with expectations. Â You might think, considering the big tease at the end of the last issue, with Agatha Harkness warning a bunch of heroes about the Visions going off the rails, that you’d see some…
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Movie Review – Captain America: Civil War
note: Â some spoilers There’s a huge reason Captain America: Civil War works and Batman v Superman doesn’t, and that’s emotional investment. Â I know Zack Snyder and DC/WB wanted to do thing their own way and not ape Marvel’s so far successful approach, but when you are rebooting two legendary characters and making significant changes, you…
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What’s New on Marvel Unlimited – May 4, 2016
Every week, Marvel adds new comics to their Marvel Unlimited service. Â Sometimes it’s new stuff – most series they publish get issues added about 6 months after they are released in shops – and others it’s older comics. Â But there’s always something interesting and I will point them out weekly. First up is Marvel Spotlight…
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Comic Book Review – Paper Girls Vol. 1
Creative Team: Writer: Brian K. Vaughn Art: Cliff Chiang Colors: Matt Wilson Letters: Jared K. Fletcher When Brian K. Vaughn is writing a new series, you can take it to the bank that it’s going to be good. Â So it’s no surprise that his latest series from Image, Paper Girls, is indeed great. Â If you…
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Comic Book Review – I Hate Fairyland Volume 1
Creative Team: Writer: Skottie Young Art: Skottie Young Colors: Jean-Francois Beaulieu Letters: Nate Piekos What would happen if Dorothy never left Oz? Â If she was looking for those damn ruby slippers for the rest of her life? Â That’s the premise of Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland, which follows Gert, and young girl who makes a…
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Do Your Homework – Doctor Strange: Season One
Marvel recently released the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the movie which comes out this November. Â Unlike Captain America: Civil War which is filled with recognizable characters for the most part, Doctor Strange is a relative unknown to the average movie-goer. Â If you’ve watched the teaser, you’ll already know that things are…well, stranger than…
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Movie Review – The Jungle Book
Live-action versions of their classic animated features is a thing for Disney right now, and the next one is The Jungle Book. Â Yeah, I know it’s technically adapted from the Kipling book but make no mistake the classic animated version is the inspiration here. Â Thankfully, it’s a really good adaptation. The first thing that stands…
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Movie Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The elephant in the room, right? Â Yes, I saw BvS: DoJ. Â I don’t hate it, but there hasn’t been a comic book movie that’s ever elicited a wider range of reactions from me. Â For every cool moment or visual, there are long stretches where my only reaction is a sigh or eyeroll or double facepalm.…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #6
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Gabriel Hernandez Walta Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles Much of the unease and tension in The Vision thus far has come from what we haven’t seen as much as what we have. Â Tom King and company pulls that trick again here in The Vision #6. Â Again, we get…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #1
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Over the years with my sporadic obsession with comics, I mostly missed comics featuring Black Panther. Â It was the same way with a lot of important characters – I think they only exposure to Hank Pym was in his ‘Dr. Pym’…
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Stop making Batman v Superman about Marvel versus DC
If there’s a thing in comics fandom I hate right now it’s this adversarial tone a lot of the chatter takes on nowadays. Â A spirited debate is fun, no doubt, but this isn’t that, it’s just angry people shouting at each other. Â It’s there in sports now, video games, even politics. Â There are certain groups…
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Book Review – The City Stained Red (Bring Down Heaven #1) by Sam Sykes
I became aware of Sam Sykes mostly via Twitter, and his interactions with Myke Cole, Daniel Abraham and other authors I followed. Â He was funny, and when the first book in his new series was discounted, I took a shot. Â The City Stained Red, book one of the “Bring Down Heaven” series, follows an adventuring…
