Year: 2013
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Movie Review – Man of Steel
Superman, the character, has never held great appeal for me. I’ve enjoyed some of the movies and shows, read a few comics here and there, but he’s never been particularly interesting. The trailers for Man of Steel, though, intrigued me. They promised a Superman with some depth, played with the mythology a bit, and implied…
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Get to know an MMO: Marvel Heroes
Note: First in a series where I look at current MMO games from a Free to Play perspective (as I’m too much of a cheapskate to pay for a monthly fee unless the game is REALLY good). As you know from this site, I’m a big Marvel comics fan. I read them as a kid,…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch – Season Two
DS9 Rewatch: Season One The series really starts to round into form with it’s second season, with the actors seeming to be much more comfortable in their roles. More Dominion stuff, more Bajoran stuff, more Garak. Here are my episode thoughts: Episodes 1, 2, 3 – The Homecoming, The Circle, The Siege: A rare three…
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Movie Review – Star Trek Into Darkness
There will be spoilers. You are warned. If there’s anything I know from reading reactions to Star Trek Into Darkness, it’s that it is very polarizing. You are going to love it or hate it. The middle ground ‘it was decent’ option is pretty darn uncommon. To best prepare you for discussing STID, I’m going…
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Movie Review – Iron Man 3
A few notes: I’m a huge Iron Man fanboy, and I’ll try to keep spoilers out of the first paragraph. Beyond that, you’ve been warned. My son and I went to see Iron Man 3 last night, and had a lot of fun. I think, at this point, they are never recapturing the magic of…
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Game Review – Monaco
The devs were nice enough to let me take Monaco for a spin early, and here are my thoughts. Â If you aren’t familiar with the game, here’s a brief rundown: Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off…
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rewatch – Season One
Since we finally bit the bullet and signed on with Netflix, I decided it was high time to re-watch my favorite Star Trek series, Deep Space Nine. There are a few rough patches, but I enjoyed S1 quite a bit more than I anticipated. Some general thoughts first. Bashir was so annoying at first, wasn’t…
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Book Review – Spiral, a Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith Comic
I have a review copy of the trade paperback collection of the five part Spiral series, which is a Star Wars comic set in the Old Republic era. This means that the Sith are still an entire empire of their own, though the ‘Lost Tribe of the Sith’ are actually a splinter group stranded on…
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Book Review – Wool (1-5)
Where to begin. I could tell you that Wool is about humans eking out an existence in underground silos, but that’s just a frame – a common one in fiction, from City of Ember to the Fallout games, it’s been done. No, what this series of tales is about is people, psychological manipulation, mob mentality,…
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Game Review – Tomb Raider
I played bits and pieces of the early Tomb Raider games, but was never a fan of them. I didn’t seek them out. But I kept hearing how good this new one was, at least before everyone moved on to Bioshock: Infinite, and when I saw a good deal, I jumped in and bought it. …
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Movie Review – G.I. Joe: Retaliation
I was never a G.I. Joe kid growing up – I don’t remember it being forbidden, but discouraged, but it was also always on opposite something else I wanted to watch. I went to see this with a couple of friends who were way more into the Joes than I ever was, including one that…