Gotham Academy #1 - A Review
Olive Silverlock is not having a good year at Gotham Academy so far. Bad enough that she's snubbed by most of her classmates because she's attending the prestigious school on a scholarship! Now she has...
View ArticleFour Reasons The Tesla Effect Was Not As Good As It Should Have Been
NOTE: This column contains SPOILERS for The Tesla Effect. So don't read it unless you've already beaten the game or don't really care about having parts of the story and the puzzles spoiled.As I said...
View ArticleThe Flash Episode Guide - Format Key
For The Flash Episode Guide, I'll be using a slightly modified version of the same key I use for The Arrow Episode Guide, which in turn is based off of what I think is the finest episode guide ever...
View ArticleDusk: Vol. 3 - A Kickstarter
My friend and colleague David Doub is currently Kickstarting a third volume of his amazing supernatural graphic-novel series Dusk.As a battered wife, Eve’s only concern was keeping her marriage...
View ArticleThe Flash Episode Guide: Season 1, Episode 1 - City Of Heroes
For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here. PlotNine months after being struck by lightning, forensic scientist Barry Allen wakes from a coma and quickly discovers that the...
View ArticleArrow Episode Guide: Season 3, Episode 1 - The Calm
For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here.PlotFive months have passed since Oliver Queen saved his city from Deathstroke and things have only gotten better since that...
View ArticleInjustice: Gods Among Us - Year Three #2 - A Review
Is it too early to start a petition to hand over the reigns of the Constantine comic to Tom Taylor once the Injustice books come to a close? I ask because it's become apparent to me, after only two...
View ArticleDoctor Who, Series 8 - Episode 8 - Mummy On The Orient Express
THE QUICK, SPOILER FREE REVIEW Delightfully original and honestly surprising at times, with a strong supporting guest cast and Capaldi turning in his best performance yet as The Doctor. This may be my...
View ArticleArrow: Season 2.5 #4 - A Review
Arrow: Season 2.5 #4 is primarily concerned with the back-story of the new Brother Blood and how one of Sebastian Blood's underlings came to acquire his boss' mask and formed a doomsday cult in...
View ArticleBatman #35 - A Review
There's no easy way to summarize the main story of Batman #35 so I'll just come right out and say it. It's one year in the future, sometime after the events of Batman Eternal, and Batman fights most of...
View ArticleEarth 2: World's End #1 - A Review
If you've been reading Earth 2, then this first chapter of Earth 2: World's End will offer some welcome information about the history behind the Earth/Apokolips War that kicked off the start of the...
View ArticleDoctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #3 - A Review
It's the Day of The Dead in New York City but things seem more like Night Of The Living Dead. Strange creatures that feed on fear are terrorizing Gabby Gonzalez's neighborhood, causing people to...
View ArticleBatgirl #35 - A Review
Rudyard Kipling once said that "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays. And every single one of them is right!" I first heard this quote in an article Dennis O'Neil had written about...
View ArticleEarth 2 #27 - A Review
Set sometime after the start of Earth 2: World's End, Earth 2 #27 is nominally about our heroes trying to rescue a group of trapped scientists. What the comic is really about, however, is...
View ArticleThe Flash Episode Guide: Season 1, Episode 2 - Fastest Man Alive
For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here. PlotWith Cisco acting as his eyes and ears at STAR Labs, Barry has begun saving people around Central City as The Flash. But...
View ArticleArrow Episode Guide: Season 3, Episode 2 - Sara
For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here. PlotThe death of Sara Lance has hit everyone on Team Arrow hard, but they're all responding to it in different ways. As Oliver...
View ArticleInjustice: Gods Among Us - Year Three #3 - A Review
Injustice: Year Three #3 sees John Constantine in the unusual role of the general rallying the troops. Uniting Batman's resistance movement with all the magic users interested in giving Superman a good...
View ArticleJustice League United #5 - A Review
I've spoken before about how Jeff Lemire is one of the few modern writers who seems to follow the classic rule that every comic should be written as if it were someone's first exposure to the...
View ArticleRed Sonja: The Black Tower #2 - A Review
In my review of the first part of Red Sonja: The Black Tower, I said that this was sword-and-sorcery of the old school - bloody and visceral with little sense of nuance. For a moment as this second...
View ArticleEarth 2: World's End #2 - A Review
Taken on the level of a summer blockbuster, Earth 2: World's End #2 is an enjoyable story. Building upon last issue's explosive climax, our heroes scatter around the world to deal with the reactivation...
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