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Advent Review #11: Arrow Season 3 Ep 9 (TV Show Review)

As with The Flash last week, we got to see some incredible things happen on Arrow as well when Team Flash came calling and ended up helping Team Arrow with apprehending a villain, Digger Harkness (future Captain Boomerang). It was quite a solemn and sombre episode broken up with the occasional humour from Team Flash, and […]

Comics Picks For 03.12.2014

A third straight week this time without me hitting my magic 40 number, which I really regret since a ton of comics have been coming out these last two weeks, but no matter. Anyway, My top picks for the surprise hits of the week would be Battlestar Galactica: The Death of Apollo #1 from Dynamite […]

The Flash Season 1 Ep 9 (TV Show Review)

Last week on The Flash we were witness to something amazing, something that hadn’t been done before in superhero television, for obvious reasons. Barry Allen and Oliver Queen came together as a team to take down some bad guys in their respective shows, with Barry learning that all his optimism and everything jut isn’t enough sometimes, […]

Advent Review #10: Agents of SHIELD Season 2 Eps 9-10 (TV Show Review)

When Agents of SHIELD pulled its winter finale last year in its debut season, it was on a grim but promising note nonetheless. The show had been marred by inconsistent writing up until that point, with little to recommend itself beyond its overarching premise, and it didn’t hit its stride until much later in the season. And […]

Fast-Shot Comics Reviews 03.12.2014

I ended up skipping last week’s Fast-Shot article since I was rather busy with real-life stuff and just did not have the time for doing it. But I stand by what I said in the previous two articles, that these reviews are a great way to work through the back-log and they let me do […]

Advent Review #9: Age of Shiva by James Lovegrove (Book Review)

James Lovegrove’s Pantheon novels have been quite unlike other novels that I’ve read to date, irrespective of whether or not I like them. Starting with Age of Zeus and then Age of Aztec, these novels explore various religious mythologies from around the world and do an interesting contemporary science-fiction spin with them, trying to explain […]

Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #1 (Comics Review)

The 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica stands as one of my all-time favourite space opera television to date, alongside some fine company as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Andromeda, Firefly, Stargate: Atlantis and others. It was a gritty and realistic show that was rooted in a more modern age and had a long, years-spanning story […]

Advent Review #8: Gotham Academy #3 (Comics Review)

One of DC’s latest series, Gotham Academy has had a pretty good and strong start with its first two issues. The series has introduced us to lots of new readers, almost all of them high-school aged, and the unrepentant fun of the series has definitely pulled me in hook, line and sinker. Olive Silverlock and […]

Advent Review #7: Grimm Fairy Tales: Realm War #5 (Comics Review)

Zenescope’s Age of Darkness event has still been moving steadily ahead after Grimm Fairy Tales #100 in the current mini-series Realm War that looks at the world as it in the aftermath of the Horde’s victory over all the different realms. Even as the heroes try to gather their forces for a strike at their enemy, […]

Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel #2 (Comics Review)

Valiant Comics kicked off a new Eternal Warrior mini-series last month, Days of Steel, that explores some of the time that the titular hero spent in Europe during the years of the Magyar invasion of Frankish lands. Gilad was tasked with bringing a prophecy to fruition, a prophecy about a saviour of the Franks who must […]