Year: 2016
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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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Comics Twitter is a JERK!
Subtitled “Ask me about MY feminist agenda”. The thing about this whole mess I don’t get is, why do the misogynist man-babies get so wound up about a book they didn’t read? Â They are gleefully vile in attacking Chelsea Cain after the cancellation of the Mockingbird series, and the preview of Joelle Jones’s cover to…
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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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The First Legend of Korra Comic, “Turf Wars”, Starts June 2017!
It was first announced that Korra’s adventures would continue in comics (much like Aang’s) last New York Comic-Con, but it’s taken until this one to get an update. Â The new comic, titled “Turf Wars”, begins June of 2017. Â The details: This three-part graphic novel series is written by Nickelodeon TV series co-creator and executive producer…
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Help Me Fix Agents of SHIELD
This is mostly in response to the article over at Heroic Hollywood, Is Marvel’s ‘Agents of SHIELD’ Really Any Good? so maybe check that first. There was no one more excited by the concept of Agents of SHIELD than me, when it was first announced. Â A Whedon-adjacent look at the more mundane aspects of the…
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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,…
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Happy Birthday Star Trek
50 years ago today yesterday, the first episode of Star Trek (now known as ‘The Original Series’) aired.  Sci-fi fandom hasn’t been the same since.  Hundreds of episodes of TV across five decades, scores of books and comics, big budget movies, video games, copycats and parodies, Trek holds a special place in our pop culture.  Star…