Category: Review
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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. He made his big-screen debut in this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron after all. 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. It gets you turned around. It became clear that Lash wasn’t just some random person – Andrew was a possibility to be the killer Inhuman, but I dismissed him. But there you are. And this reveal leaves me with a ton of questions. 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. AoS wastes little time in showing us just what happened to Agent Simmons on the blue-tinged planet. 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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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. After an open that shows old English dudes sending some poor sap into a room…with our monolith. Mostly so one of them can tell us “no one ever returns!”. 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. 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. Still, there’s something that doesn’t sit right with me about Lion Forge’s version of Knight Rider. If you squint, it sort of resembles the source material. There’s a talking car, and a guy named Michael Knight is driving it. 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. In Sanderson’s…