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The Blacklist Season 2 Ep 2 (TV Show Review)

NBC’s The Blacklist kicked off its second season last week on a very good note. With the introduction of the Berlin plotline last year, the show gained on a very personal, very emotional aspect that came to the fore by the end of the season when we learned that Berlin wanted Red because Red had […]

Sleepy Hollow Season 2 Ep 2 (TV Show Review)

Sleepy Hollow‘s season 2 debuted last week with a solid season premiere that promised lots of different things. With Abby stuck in Purgatory, Ichabod buried alive in a coffin, Katrina in Abraham’s custody, Irving arrested and Jenny in a car crash, things looked pretty bleak, but the characters managed to bounce back handsomely enough that […]

Storm #2-3 (Comics Review)

Joining Marvel’s line-up of female-led titles this year was July’s Storm #1, which featured one of the most iconic members of the X-Men, Ororo Munroe aka Storm. The first issue was something quite wonderful since Greg Pak got the character down perfectly, almost, and the same can be said of Victor Ibanez’s art as well. […]

Gotham Season 1 Ep 2 (TV Show Review)

Last week Fox debuted Gotham, a gritty noir-ish procedural set in the years before Bruce Wayne became the vigilante known as Batman, back when Carmine Falcone still ran the city’s mobs and when both Harvey Bullock and James Gordon were still young. The series premiere was a very entertaining and exciting experience, better than I’d expected […]

IDW @ NYCC’14: Exclusives

New York Comic Con is an event that I’ve been wanting to attend for the last two years, but haven’t been able to find an opportunity until now. There’s always something that comes up and throws a kink in the plans. From all I’ve heard, it is also a much better con-experience than San Diego […]

Future’s End: Sinestro and Superman (Comics Review)

This past week DC’s month-long Future’s End came to a close and it was certainly an eclectic mix of titles, from all that I’ve read so far. But there were indeed some titles that I enjoyed this week, and as I continue my readings this week, for I still have quite a few titles to […]

Grimm Fairy Tales: Robyn Hood #1-2 (Comics Review)

Thanks to Zenescope’s massive Age of Darkness crossover event that has been running since late last year, I came to know about their Robyn Hood comics, which feature Robyn Locksley as the publisher’s take on the Robin Hood tales. All the Robyn Hood comics I’ve read to date have been quite fun to read and […]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Book Review)

The Hunger Games is one of the series I wanted to read in 2013 as part of my “25 Series To Read In 2013” reading challenge. Having seen and loved the movie adaptation of the first novel in the series, and waiting with high anticipation for the second movie, this was a series I was […][image error]

Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole (Double Review)

With the upcoming release of Myke’s second novel, Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier in the first quarter of 2013, I was one of the reviewers invited to review the book as I’d previously reviewed the first novel, Control Point. And the great thing is that Fortress Frontier is a much better novel than Control Point, especially […][image error]

Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole (Book Review)

Myke Cole is another 2012 debut author I discovered in that same year. His first novel Shadow Ops: Control Point presented an interesting world where magic and technology exist side by side and where governments around the world use magically-empowered special forces. It was a fun novel, albeit a protagonist who made it really tough […]