Tag: comic book
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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 – 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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Should I Read It? Secret Wars (1984)
I know what you are thinking – didn’t we just leave this party? Â And the answer to that is…complicated. Â I am talking about the original Secret Wars from 1984-1985 today, one of the very first big crossover events at the big publishers. Â It debuted 32 years ago, though you can’t tell from the May date…
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Comic Book Review – The Vision #4
The fourth issue of The Vision is one of contrasts, something Tom King and the team have mastered so far. Â We see the ideal for what Vision was hoping for when all this started. Â The kids playing football in the yard (with humorous synthezoid banter reminiscent of Charlie Brown and Lucy), his wife in the…
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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. Â 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. Â 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? Â It’s not the sight of a female synthezoid in lingerie, though that DOES happen in The Vision #3. Â No, what shocks Tony is the lengths Vision is going to in order to bring back his daughter. Â Vizh explains that some of her nerves went incorporeal to dodge the Grim Reaper’s…
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How to Fix the Fantastic Four
I finally broke down and watched last year’s Fantastic Four debacle. Â It’s terrible, joyless and soulless in a way no movie with “Fantastic” in the title should be, let alone anything with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the DNA. Â You can’t blame the actors here – we know every one of them can act.…
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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. Â 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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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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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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Our Free Comic Book Day 2015 Haul!
Above you can see the picks both me and my kids picked out for Free Comic Book Day 2015! Â I didn’t get to get out early so I missed a couple of the free books I wanted (the Dark Horse sampler with the Avatar: The Last Airbender comic, and Terrible Lizard) but we still got…