With this season the battle in Oliver Queen over whether he is a terrible person and dangerous to everyone around him or not peaks and crashes. As a romance buds between Oliver and my absolutely favorite character, Felicity Smoak, builds, so does Oliver’s survivor’s guilt. No wonder Felicity gets upset because certainly such thoughts haven’t […]
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TV Review: Arrow Season 2
January 15, 2021Many writers have focused on the conflict between Green Arrow, the vigilante, and Oliver Queen, the wealthy businessman in the comics and in commentary on the legacy of Green Arrow. In this season of Arrow writers wholly embrace this conflict. Oliver is clearly no longer the Oliver everyone knew before the island. Like many people […]
I haven’t read a lot of Wonder Woman before. DC and Justice League always struck me as a major boy’s club, which typically played in line with normal gender roles I learned growing up. I had Wonder Woman underoos, but never really investigated who the character was outside of the token female sidekick to Batman […]
DC Comics, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-4012-1054-0 A year ago Black Canary helped bust an all-feme cat burglar gang targeting a casino. Now the members of that gang are mysteriously dying–no, committing suicide. Is it really guilt driving them, or something else? Canary enlists the help of sorceress supreme Zantanna, but in the process risks giving a […]
Justice League Season 1 Episode 13
May 22, 2016“The Brave and the Bold Part 2” When Central City vanishes Wonder Woman, Jo’nn, and Hawkgirl go to investigate, unaware that Green Lantern and Flash are already in the thick of things. Following the trail to a similar energy signature in Africa (with Batman’s help) they end up in just as much danger as Flash […]
Justice League Season 1 Episode 12
May 15, 2016“The Brave and the Bold Part 1” After the seriousness of the last few episodes we get this one, starring the stubbornly joking Flash. Not that Flash doesn’t take his job seriously, but his role as “heart and soul” of the Justice League is evident and even younger viewers can tell sometimes he’s joking and […]
Justice League: Season 1 Episode 11
May 8, 2016“War World Part 2” Superman’s defiance of Mongul sets a bad precedence, so Mongul sets out to make sure Superman is killed on War World, no matter what it takes. The other gladiators, however, come to admire his resolve to treat them like actual people (including using their attempt to help him escape to […]
Justice League Season 1 Episode 10
May 1, 2016“War World Part 1” Jo’nn and Superman are captured and secreted away to War World, a planet meant for the gladiators of a dozen worlds to face off for the entertainment of a wild crowd. Hawkgirl and Green Lantern are on their way to help. But will a world with no jobs, no food, […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 9
April 10, 2016Paradise Lost Part 2 So the artifacts Diana and the League are uncovering to save Diana’s family from Felix Faust? The pieces of the Key to Tartarus, the underworld. (The history between Diana’s mother and Hades does explain why no men are allowed in Themyscera.) When Faust releases Hades the League and the Amazons gets […]
Review: Justice League Season 1 Episode 8
April 3, 2016Paradise Lost Part 1 When Wonder Woman returns home (after having leaving against her mother’s will to help the Earth fight the alien invasion) she find that Felix Faust has invaded and turned her family to stone. In order to get them back Diana has to recover some mystic artifacts for him. Of course Diana […]