Month: January 2016
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Should I Read It? – Marvel’s Civil War
This is the first in a recurring series where I look at an older set of comics (either an event or a series) and decide whether it’s worth tracking down. Mentioning the Civil War comics among comics fans is sure to elicit a strong response – usually negative. Having heard of that for years, when…
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SyFy’s The Expanse
I’ve been a big booster of The Expanse books for a long time (note that I’ve been acquainted with one half of the author team that makes up James S. A. Corey since I’ve been on the internet), but I haven’t yet reviewed the TV show. Â Hey, I’m a busy guy, and there’s a lot…
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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. Â 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. Â 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…