One of my favorite Marvel series dropped a second season, and this one digs in deeper to Captain Peggy Carter: Super Hero. What if Nebula Joined the Nova Corps? Is a scifi take on noir that reminds me of the Marvel graphic novel Noir series, at least in spirit. It also gives a nod to […]
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T.V. Review: What If…? Season 1
January 5, 2024Movies and T.V. shows sticking to the books never mattered much to me, because I see each new version as a shared conversation between makers and audience about the source material. What If, then is right up my alley. Season one starts with a series of theoreticals; What if Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? […]
Webcomic Review: Love Me to Death
September 15, 2022Love Me to Death is an online serial manga on Webtoons with chapters available weekly for free (and the three most recent chapters are paid.) It centers on Victor, a necromancer, who lives in a South American flavored town, part of an empire controlled by the Church of the God of Life. Necromancy is outlawed […]
TV Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 4: Seeing Red
July 23, 2022In episode 4 of Ms. Marvel Kamala and her mom travel closer to the source of the mysterious bangle bringing out her powers by visiting family in Pakistan. After first setting the scene with some touristy and family activities, which are absolutely beautiful and fascinating bits of representation, handled with grace and levity, Kamal meets […]
Movie Review: Thor Love and Thunder
July 21, 2022Avoiding spoilers is increasingly difficult for fans these days. I fell prey to a few, despite only being a week late to seeing the newest Thor movie. I voluntarily read a review from one of those more highbrow sites that bemoaned the movie as. more or less, an overexcited movie about well meaning Golden Retriever […]
T.V. Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 3: Destined
July 14, 2022In Episode three we finally get to see some links between the t.v. incarnation of Ms. Marvel and the comic origins of Ms. Marvel. They are subtle, but as the episode opens in a flash back showing where Aisha (Kamala’s great grandmother) found the bangle that appears to be bringing out Kamala’s powers we get […]
ISBN 1952303311 Twin princess Kelindi and Aridani live a lavish life in The Tiger’s Claw, a mountain formed two hundred years ago when the queen used powers gifted to her by a unique bonding to her white tiger companion to create a place where her people could be safe. Traditionally the leader of the Tiger’s […]
ISBN 1952303214 Potions Inc is a reverse portal fantasy with a number of other rips on fantasy tropes. Randelgast Jones aches for adventure. His family owns a potions shop. His siblings are brilliant mages. But he dreams of something more…he’s just not sure what. His parents encourage him to start simply (with actually working toward […]
Movie Review: Morbius
May 17, 2022Warning: This is going to be a rambling review from yours truly. My introduction to Morbius, the Marvel comics character was this dude: A character from the 90s Spiderman cartoon series. Unlike the other Spiderman cartoons, this one introduced Morbius, had Blade as a guest star, and I have to admit it, I was a […]
**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Dark Horse Comics, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781506721200 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org ) Dark Horse’s reprints of EC Comics’ The Haunt of Fear allows readers who have never been exposed to these great comics experience horror comics from the 1950s which were originally published between May 1950 and April 1951. Volume one collects The […]