Year: 2015
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #1
It’s not surprising in the least that the Vision would get a title in Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” lineup. Â He made his big-screen debut in this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron after all. Â When this sort of thing has happened before, you have often seen changes made to the comic book version of the character or…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E06 Among Us Hide…
This show, man. Â It gets you turned around. Â It became clear that Lash wasn’t just some random person – Andrew was a possibility to be the killer Inhuman, but I dismissed him. Â But there you are. Â And this reveal leaves me with a ton of questions. Â Is he one of the recent Inhumans created by…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E05 4,722 Hours
This will be quick as I’m very late getting this out. Â AoS wastes little time in showing us just what happened to Agent Simmons on the blue-tinged planet. Â It starts out as you expect, with Simmons falling back on her training for survival – at first staying near the portal exit in case it can…
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Comic Book Review – Airwolf: Airstrikes
Yet another IDW/Lion Forge comic that exists in a strange netherworld between reboot and continuation (much like the previously reviewed Knight Rider), this Airwolf: Airstrikes trade paperback is an anthology of mostly-unrelated stories starring a helicopter that sort of resembles the Airwolf you remember, starring people that at least have the same names as the…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E04 Devils You Know
The action-packed fourth episode of Agents of SHIELD starts with…domestic bliss? Â A happy Inhuman couple making dinner gets a knock at the door and it’s Alisha, the Inhuman who can make duplicates of herself. Â She’s there to recruit them to Coulson’s team. Â A big change from when she was on the side of Jiaying. Â Unfortunately…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E03 A Wanted (Inhu)man
Agents of SHIELD continues to spin multiple plates each episode, but all of the storylines are still interesting. Â This time around, the ATCU outs Lincoln as an alien threat on TV, and Daisy and Mack try to go to the rescue. Â Lincoln reaches out to his AA sponsor for help, and it seems to go…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E02 Purpose in the Machine
Episode 2, Purpose in the Machine kicks off right where the premiere left off, and keeps up the breakneck pace. Â After an open that shows old English dudes sending some poor sap into a room…with our monolith. Â Mostly so one of them can tell us “no one ever returns!”. Â But we know our Simmons is…
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Agents of SHIELD Recap – S03E01 Laws of Nature
I’ve got a bit of free time on my hands, so I am going to try and write more – and I thought I’d start recapping some of my favorite shows. Â First up, Agents of SHIELD! AoS season two dealt with the Inhumans, and the fact that Skye (now known by her real name, Daisy…
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Comic Book Review – Knight Rider (Lion Forge)
I’m fairly easy-going about adaptations, especially compared to the internet at large. Â Still, there’s something that doesn’t sit right with me about Lion Forge’s version of Knight Rider. Â If you squint, it sort of resembles the source material. Â There’s a talking car, and a guy named Michael Knight is driving it. Â Aside from that, this…
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Book Review – Firefight (Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners #2)
I enjoyed the first book in the Reckoners series (Steelheart) despite some silly YA trappings that felt like they were there just to check a box on a form (let’s have some new slang for the kids!) but I’m a sucker for some good comic book action, and I like the hook here. Â In Sanderson’s…
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Lightning Movie Reviews – Ant-Man, Ultron, Minions
I have some catching up to do, so you get some quick thoughts on some recent flicks. Avengers: Age of Ultron – The first movie was so successful, so it would’ve been difficult to meet expectations here. Ultron definitely was a half-step down but still had some great action and humor. Ultron himself could’ve used…
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Inside Out and When Marnie Was There
I’m late posting this, but I saw both Inside Out and When Marnie Was There with the kids, and boy was THAT an emotional wringer. Â But in the best way. Seeing them both that close together makes for an interesting comparison – both movies focus on a girl dealing with the emotions of adolescence. Riley…