Month: March 2016
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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…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #5
There was a discussion on Twitter the other day by some comic creators, about how the phrase that got them to ignore a review the quickest was “nothing happened”. Â I would not be surprised if some of those comments were made about this issue of The Vision…but they’d be completely wrong. Now, there’s little action,…
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Comic Book Review – Black Widow #1 (2016)
The best description I’ve seen for this new Black Widow comic is it’s the cold open to a new James Bond movie, but starring our favorite super-spy. Â It’s pure action. Â Seriously all we learn is, Widow steals *something* from SHIELD and busts out of a helicarrier. Â That’s all we know, but it’s A-OK because that…
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Agent Carter – A Missed Opportunity
note: spoilers abound for Agent Carter season 2 Agent Carter’s second season just ended, and I’m sad. Â There was a lot of fun to be had – Howard’s always good for a laugh, Jarvis is perfect, and their take on Whitney Frost as a villainous Hedy Lamarr was interesting. Â One thing that didn’t help was…