Justice League Dark #22 - A Review
Something about Justice League Dark #22 clicked with me in a way that the previous chapters of The Trinity War didn't. I have yet to put a finger on precisely what that something is, though I have...
View ArticleDoctor Who #11 (IDW Vol. 3) - A Review
Part Three of Sky Jacks continues smoothly from where Part Two ended, without pausing for a moment. Trapped in a seemingly endless limbo on-board a steam-powered World War II bomber, The Doctor and...
View ArticleThe Deep: Here Be Dragons #1 - A Review
The Deep: Here Be Dragons #1 is not so much a comic book as it is an artifact from another time and place - a hypothetical Earth 57 where Stan Lee had been asked by his publisher to craft a team of...
View ArticleHawkeye - Annual #1 - A Review
Sorry, Clint Barton fans! Once again your regularly scheduled comic book has been subverted! For Hawkeye Annual #1 focuses upon Clint's sidekick/partner/something, Kate Bishop!This issue is all about...
View ArticleLatest News on Arrow, Amazon and a Flash TV Show!
SOURCE:The CW gives The Flash his own TV show, launched out of ArrowSo, here's the long and the short of it.1. Barry Allen will be a reoccurring character on Arrow in Season Two. No word on who will...
View ArticleConstantine #5 - A Review
You really have to hand it to Jeff Lemire. At a time when most monthly comics are "written for the trade", he still makes the effort to make every issue of the books he writes accessible to new...
View ArticlePeter Capaldi Is The New Doctor!
SOURCE: BBC - Exclusive Video: Peter Capaldi is the New Doctor!So who is Peter Capaldi? Doctor Who/Torchwood fans likely recognize him from the Series Four Doctor Who story Fires of Pompeii where he...
View ArticlePower of The Valkyrie, Part Two
PREVIOUSLY, ON POWER OF THE VALKYRIE...Susan (no last name given) is a young doctor who somehow got through medical school without ever learning how to cope with people dying. As she's driving home...
View ArticlePower of The Valkyrie, Part Three
PREVIOUSLY, ON POWER OF THE VALKYRIE...Our heroine, who I think the writers have finally agreed to called Suzanne, was hospitalized after having a close encounter with the fiery demon Loki and the...
View ArticleTrillium #1 - A Review
Reading Jeff Lemire's Trillium, I can't help but feel that I'm holding a relic from another time and place. I had the same sensation when I read Lemire's earlier graphic novel The Underwater Welder....
View ArticlePower of The Valkyrie, Part Four
PREVIOUSLY, ON POWER OF THE VALKYRIE...Our heroine Suzanne is confronted by the warrior woman Emu, who was meant to inherit the Power of the Valkyrie that Odin accidentally gave Suzanne back in the...
View ArticleThe Blackbeard Legacy - Part One
Avast, ye swabs! 'Tis clear to your Captain that ye be too stout of heart to be properly traumatized by the likes of Power Of The Valkyrie. 'Twas a bad comic, to be sure! Yet for all the problems...
View ArticleEarth 2 #15 - A Review
For all the hype Trinity War, Forever Evil and Batman: Year Zero have received, I think the only story DC Comics is telling right now worthy of the name epic is being told in the pages of Earth 2. The...
View ArticleKing Conan: The Hour of The Dragon #3 - A Review
The tale of Zenobia is a literal rags-to-riches story. Born and raised to serve in the harems of royalty, she had a strength and fire that seemed incongruous to her position and upbringing. Despite...
View ArticleGreen Arrow #23 - A Review
The plot thickens in Green Arrow #23 as we discover more about the mysterious group known as The Outsiders who have apparently been manipulating Ollie since birth and his family for generations. We...
View ArticleBatman Annual #2 - A Review
Some of the best Batman stories ever told came from the perspective of a character other than our Dark Knight Detective. Batman Annual #2 is such a story. Our P.O.V. character is Eric - an idealistic...
View ArticleGreen Lantern #23 - A Review
The previous issues of Green Lantern have set up a number of problems for newly appointed GL Corps leader Hal Jordan to deal with, including a new batch of rookie Lanterns that seemed ill-equipped for...
View ArticleInjustice: Gods Among Us #28-30 - A Review
Irony abounds in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Consider how this comic is based on a video game made by the people responsible for Mortal Kombat– a game series better known for excessive violence than...
View ArticleThe Gamers: Hands Of Fate - A Review
Cass is an old-school table-top gamer, with little patience for card-gamers, LARPers and... well, pretty much anything and everything that interferes with his weekly game night. His tune quickly...
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