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January 26, 2015
The Kitchen #3 (Comics Review)
Vertigo’s The Kitchen was one of my top 25 picks of the best new comics series to come out last year and with good reason too. Where Ollie Masters really captured the narrative feel of ’60s New York in the tale of three women making their own way after the arrest of their husbands, criminals […]
January 25, 2015
Fearless by Jack Campbell (Book Review)
Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series was a part of my 25-in-14 reading challenge where I attempted to, and succeeded in, reading at least the first novels in 25 different series, across a multitude of genres. Reading��Dauntless proved to be quite a fun experience actually because I went in expecting some serious military SF, and the […]
Supergirl #38 (Comics Review)
DC’s Supergirl experienced yet another creative team change about 2 months back, and thankfully, it has been a good change for once, with a team that is focused on empowering and developing the titular character without making her suffer through yet more angst and family issues that were so… roughly executed in the first three […]
Justice League #38 (Comics Review)
Geoff Johns’��Justice League, DC’s flagship team title, has seen a resurgence in recent months once all the madness with Forever Evil got over, Lex Luthor joined the team, and then the AMAZO virus broke out. I skipped the title for more than half the year in 2014, and only came back to it last month, […]
January 24, 2015
Grimm Fairy Tales: Realm War #6 (Comics Review)
With all the meta-level shenanigans that have been going on in Zenescope’s Realm War: Age of Darkness series of late, it is easy sometimes to lose sight of the small details. But they are always there, and each issue focuses on something different from the rest. This then ends up giving space to some of […]
Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate #4 (Comics Review)
Jim Zub and Max Dunbar had a smash hit 2014 with their title��Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate, the latest tie-in comic from IDW that sets up the stage for Dungeons & Dragon‘s upcoming expansion Tyranny of Dragons. Bringing back a fan-favourite character and also introducing a band of brave new adventurers, this new […]
January 23, 2015
Red Sonja #14 (Comics Review)
With two solid arcs behind them, writer Gail Simone and artist Walter Geovani kicked off their third arc on��Red Sonja last November in a story that revisited the character’s roots and also shed some light on the most defining moment of her life, the murder of her family and the rest of her village. Of […]
Arrow Season 3 Ep 10 (TV Show Review)
This week marked the return of two of CW’s best and top-rated shows of recent years, the superhero epics The Flash and Arrow. The Flash, a new entry to CW’s line-up last year, made its mid-season comeback in a grand way by bringing back one of the favourite villains of the young show and had […]
January 22, 2015
Comics Picks For 14.01.2015
Another week going by without a “Magic 40″, but still managed to read a fair number, albeit absent any graphic novels. This week’s surprise hits were��Ares & Aphrodite #2 from Oni Press, Lady Killer #1 from Dark Horse, Wolverines #2 from Marvel and Lazarus #14 from Image. The disappointments of the week were��Battlestar Galactica: The […]
January 21, 2015
The Flash Season 1 Ep 10 (TV Show Review)
About 10 days ago, news hit the web that CW had finally gone ahead and renewed��The Flash for a second season, and to go along with that we also learned that Arrow had been renewed for a fourth season. Phenomenal stuff. With all the new records that The Flash has set and with all the […]
