Year: 2016

  • Should I Read It? – Marvel’s Civil War

    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…

  • SyFy’s The Expanse

    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.  Hey, I’m a busy guy, and there’s a lot…

  • Comic Book Review – Secret Wars 2015

    Comic Book Review – Secret Wars 2015

    Sometimes, the heroes can get a happy ending. That’s my takeaway after reading Secret Wars #9.  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.  At the end of all things, we get Reed and Doom…

  • Comic Book Review – The Vision #3

    Comic Book Review – The Vision #3

    What weirds out Tony Stark?  It’s not the sight of a female synthezoid in lingerie, though that DOES happen in The Vision #3.  No, what shocks Tony is the lengths Vision is going to in order to bring back his daughter.  Vizh explains that some of her nerves went incorporeal to dodge the Grim Reaper’s…

  • How to Fix the Fantastic Four

    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.…

  • Comic Book Review – The Vision #2

    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.  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…

  • Book Review – Archivist Wasp

    Book Review – Archivist Wasp

    For months, one of my online friends has been recommending Archivist Wasp to pretty much everybody.  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.  I’m very…

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