Category: Media
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Comic Book Review – Mockingbird, Volume 1: I Can Explain
We’ve been over the controversy regarding the series and how much of a jerk some of comics fandom can be, but I really want to talk about the Mockingbird comic, too. IT’S GREAT. Snarky, action-filled, mysterious, fun. Bobbi herself gets to shine – it’s not often she does, having been used quite often in the…
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TV Review – Voltron: Legendary Defender Season Two
If there was one thing that drove people nuts (in a good way) with season one of Voltron: Legendary Defender, it was the HUGE cliffhanger ending. Surprise allies! The lions scattered! Everything is happening! Thankfully, a second season just recently dropped that wastes no time in cleaning up the dangling threads. Season two, without spoiling too…
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Comic Book Reviews – Goldie Vance Volume 1, The Backstagers Volume 1
BOOM! Studios recently joined NetGalley, giving reviewers access to a selection of their comics and graphic novels, and I immediately requested the first volumes of Goldie Vance and The Backstagers. Goldie Vance because of the art – Brittney Williams, who you may know from her work on Patsy Walker, a. k. a. Hellcat!, is the…
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Book Review – Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond
Now that Amazon has a selection of books available to read for free for Prime members, I’ve been going through the categories that interest me to find new material. Obviously, a book about Lois Lane would do that. In this case, Fallout is about a teenage Lois in high school, though her nosy reporter skills are…
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Book Review – The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes (writer for Bioware on both the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises) is a somewhat shallow but action-packed novel set in a magical fantasy world. Loch and Kail are former Scouts for the Republic who are planning to steal a priceless Elven manuscript back from the man who framed…
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Book Review – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
I got my latest read, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet as a gift, and had a great time reading it. The first novel from Becky Chambers, it follows a young woman named Rosemary as she joins the crew of a tunneling ship (basically they make shortcuts through space) as they get a…
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Book Review – Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Carrie Vaughn from friends who read her Kitty Norville series, so when NetGalley had a copy of her new book, Martians Abroad, available to read, I jumped at it. I’m glad I did, though the book is not without it’s faults. The story takes place in a…
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Book Review – The Girl With All The Gifts
I am not normally a zombie guy, but I had heard great things about comic writer Mike Carey’s (styled M. R. Carey here) novel The Girl with All the Gifts and when it went on sale, I gave it a shot. I’m glad I did, as it’s an enjoyable spin on the nature of zombies and…
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Movie Review – Sing
Illumination’s latest movie, Sing, is a song and dance you’ve seen before. Heck, the Muppets have done it twice at least. Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey as a Koala) grew up loving the theater, and eventually (with financial help from his blue-collar dad) he buys a theater. Buster’s not very good at running it, though, so…
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Movie Review – Doctor Strange
I saw the Scott Derrickson-directed Doctor Strange over the weekend, and enjoyed it a lot. It’s not going to unseat any of my favorite MCU movies (currently Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians and Civil War) but it was a fun if familiar tale. I’ll get all the non-spoiler notes out of the way first: the…
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Comics Twitter is a JERK!
Subtitled “Ask me about MY feminist agenda”. The thing about this whole mess I don’t get is, why do the misogynist man-babies get so wound up about a book they didn’t read? They are gleefully vile in attacking Chelsea Cain after the cancellation of the Mockingbird series, and the preview of Joelle Jones’s cover to…
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Book Review – Black Widow: Forever Red
Before you start this book, know that while it’s got Black Widow in the name, it’s both about her, and not exactly about her. If it might bother you to discover the story is told mostly through the viewpoint of a teenaged girl that has an…interesting connection to Natasha, as some other reviewers seem to,…