Category: Review
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Do Your Homework – Doctor Strange: Season One
Marvel recently released the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the movie which comes out this November. Â Unlike Captain America: Civil War which is filled with recognizable characters for the most part, Doctor Strange is a relative unknown to the average movie-goer. Â If you’ve watched the teaser, you’ll already know that things are…well, stranger than…
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Movie Review – The Jungle Book
Live-action versions of their classic animated features is a thing for Disney right now, and the next one is The Jungle Book. Â Yeah, I know it’s technically adapted from the Kipling book but make no mistake the classic animated version is the inspiration here. Â Thankfully, it’s a really good adaptation. The first thing that stands…
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Movie Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The elephant in the room, right? Â Yes, I saw BvS: DoJ. Â I don’t hate it, but there hasn’t been a comic book movie that’s ever elicited a wider range of reactions from me. Â For every cool moment or visual, there are long stretches where my only reaction is a sigh or eyeroll or double facepalm.…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #6
Creative Team: Writer: Â Tom King Art: Â Gabriel Hernandez Walta Colors: Â Jordie Bellaire Letters: Â Clayton Cowles Much of the unease and tension in The Vision thus far has come from what we haven’t seen as much as what we have. Â Tom King and company pulls that trick again here in The Vision #6. Â Again, we get…
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Comic Book Review – Black Panther #1
Creative Team: Writer: Â Ta-Nehisi Coates Art: Â Brian Stelfreeze Colors: Â Laura Martin Letters: Â Joe Sabino Over the years with my sporadic obsession with comics, I mostly missed comics featuring Black Panther. Â It was the same way with a lot of important characters – I think they only exposure to Hank Pym was in his ‘Dr. Pym’…
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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…
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Comic Book Review – Power Man and Iron Fist #1
And now for something completely different!  Although Power Man and Iron Fist does feature another character we first spotted the live-action MCU version of in Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, teaming back up with his old partner Iron Fist.  But don’t tell Luke that, it’s just a favor for a friend, and how well does that usually work…
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Comic Book Review – Patsy Walker A.K.A. Hellcat #1
So I grabbed Patsy Walker A.K.A. Hellcat because I enjoy reading Kate Leth’s commentary on comics and her perspective, and I have to admit it’s more fun than I thought.  Plus, I got a solid sampling of Brittney L. Williams’s art, which works for me (she’ll be doing a Legend of Korra comic in the future).…
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Movie Review – Kung Fu Panda 3
I previously held up Kung Fu Panda 2Â as an example of how a sequel should be done. Â I don’t think Kung Fu Panda 3 reaches those same heights but it’s still a fun ride. Kung Fu Panda 3Â picks up not long after 2 – Po is living his ideal life as the Dragon Warrior. Â He…