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I Did Not Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence review

    The Please Don't Tell My Parents series is a series I have declared to be the Supervillainy Saga's. This, despite the fact mine are R-rated superhero camp stories and they're well, PG superhero camp stories. See? Completely different! Despite this, I'm going to say I think they're probably the best superhero series I'm presently reading. Yes, even better than Wearing the Cape and more enjoyable than Brandon Sanderson's The Reckoners. Why? Because, really, these are some com...

Team-Ups and Crossovers review

    I am a huge fan of Marion G. Harmon's Wearing the Cape series and it was actually a major influence on my Supervillainy Saga books. Before Supergirl was on television, I was a huge fan of the character and felt she was overlooked. So fiction starring a Supergirl-alike ala Hope Corrigan was something I eagerly devoured. I've been a bit back and forth about the past couple of volumes because the forward momentum seemed a bit stalled.

    I was really hoping we'd...

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire review

    I've fallen behind on my Star Wars: The Old Republic reviews. In large part, this is due to the fact I don't have the same amount of time to game as I used to. I'd very much like to catch up and do reviews of Rise of the Hutt Cartel and the Shadow of Revan. However, due to the release of The Eternal Throne, I figure it's probably a good idea to get the biggest and most important of the expansions reviewed.

    Knights of the Fallen Empire is, in my opinion, a...

Westworld 1x10 "The Bicameral Mind" review

 "These violent delights have violent ends."

    It is an interesting question as to why we create stories and what we get out of them. It is another question as to why so many stories are violent, brutal, and ruthless. To be fair, most aren't. Westworld exists as a kind of erstwhile Deadwood-meets-Game of Thrones in-and-out-of universe but it takes the view this is a place where the absolute worst of humanity gets on display.

    I can't help but think a park...

Calamity by Brandon Sanderson review

    Calamity is the third and final volume of the Reckoners trilogy. My general opinion of it can be summarized as "I really regret this series isn't continuing because I liked it enough I wanted to read more about it." The Reckoners shows just how good a really good superhero novel series can be and ranks up there with Soon I Will Be Invincible for works I really enjoyed. It's not my favorite individually but works well as a collection.

    The premise is the wor...

Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1: Vader review

     I love Darth Vader. Darth Vader is easily my favorite villain of all time and nothing, not even the Prequels, could shake my love of the character. However, it's undeniable that the original Dark Lord of the Sith has suffered some villain decay since the days of A New Hope. Even Timothy Zahn, patron saint of the Star Wars EU, remembered Darth Vader more for his strangling subordinates than his tactical genius.

    Let us not forget that Vader is the one...

Flesh to Shadow (The Kormak Saga Omnibus 1#) by William King review

    Have you ever just wanted to read a story about grim lone badass traveling from place to place, killing monsters, sleeping around, and making the occasional wise pronouncement? If so, I recommend you read the original Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard. If you have already done so, then I recommend you read The Kormak Saga by William King as well as the Witcher novels by Andrjez Sapkowski.

    Flesh to Shadow contains the first three novels of Wil...

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson review

    The Reckoners Trilogy is one which I was initially skeptical of. Despite being recommended to me by literally dozens of fans, I didn't know if it would be my cup of tea. I'm a fairly big fan of the idea that superhuman powers would be a net-positive to the world and tend to be on the idealistic end of things despite being a fan of edgy antiheroes. The Reckoners Trilogy is based around the concept of a world which has been devastated by evil superhumans, so it's one which yo...

THE RULES OF SUPERVILLAINY and TO BEAT THE DEVIL free for Thanksgiving weekend

I feel a little bad about not announcing this early Friday but from November 25th to the 27th, two of the best books from Amber Cove Publishing are going to be available for free. They've always been available for free on Kindle Unlimited but I'm pleased to say they're free-free for download.


THE RULES OF SUPERVILLAINY by C.T. Phipps: https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Supervillainy-Saga/dp/1514269392/

Follow Gary Karkofsky as he discovers a magic cloak which allows him to live out his dream of being...

Captain America: Civil War review

    Well, better than never. Here is my review of Captain America: Civil War or Avengers 3: Electric Boogaloo, depending on how you want to think of it. The latter is a trifle unfair since much of this movie's story comes from the Winter Soldier arc by Ed Brubaker and expands on the character of Captain America immensely. Still, this movie is something of a Rorschach Test for fans of the MCU since just about everyone sees something different in this movie.

    For...