Argh argh argh! I am so glad I’m binge watching this and not watching it live. The last episode ended on a downer, but this one made me want more right away! Lauren and Andy were captured (while their parents watched) in the last episode. We also saw Esme manipulate Thunderbird (and maybe a few […]
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TV Review: The Gifted S1 E9 outfoX
February 24, 2018We are definitely building to something big here. While the Struckers try to come to terms with what Otto revealed to them last episode (their great grandparents were terrorists and the kids have the same powers), Esme, the telepath the MU crew just rescued goes a little crazy in her attempts to rescue her family […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E8- Threat of eXtinction
February 10, 2018Ba-boom! This episode has some side plots that get overshadowed, namely Blink, Polaris, and Eclipse’s rescue of hidden, Underground Railroad mutants, and discovery of Campbell’s sleeper agents inside the mutant populace. You have to know this is going to come back up, especially since Campbell outright said there were safeguards in place to prevent the […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1E7 eXtreme Measures
February 3, 2018One of my favorite episodes so far. Thunderbird starts by hunting down Blink, feeling she is unsafe with the SS crackdown on mutants. This leads to…well some sad stuff, but Blink is back!! She seems to be the character with the most logical head on her shoulders. Not that the Strucker kids are bad, they […]
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E6 Got Your SiX
January 28, 2018After Thunderbird discovers his best friend is still alive (and working for the SS), he becomes somewhat obsessed with these secret mutant detention centers and what might be happening in them. He, Reed, and Andy decide to break into a Baton Rouge federal building to find some answers. While Cait has mixed feelings about letting […]
Tv Review: The Gifted s1 e5 BoXed in
January 20, 2018Fresh out of rescuing Polaris and Reed, our plucky band of heroes are trying to get back to the safe house. They split up. Reed and Thunderbird end up back at the compound to a happy family reunion and in time to help lure the SS away from the compound. Cait and the kids help […]
Tv Review: The Gifted S1 E4 EXit Strategy
January 13, 2018After finally getting a clue and sacrificing himself to protect a mother and child, Reed is in SS “protective” custody with, surprise, surprise, Polaris. Meanwhile, desperate to free Polaris, Eclipse goes back to the cartel he used to work for.(I’m sure that will work out great.) Blink begins to suspect that Dreamer implanted false memories […]
Book Review: Batgirl volume 1: The Darkest Reflection
January 11, 2018by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf, and Vincente Cifuentes DC, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4012-3465-1 DC’s Batgirl reboot is only a partial one. We pick up sometime after The Killing Joke, where the Joker brutalized Barbara Gordon and broke Barbara’s back. Babs is recovered, thanks to tons of physical therapy and a spinal implant. But she’s still a […]
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 […]
Book Review: Injection, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, art by Declan Shalvey
December 28, 2017Injection, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, art by Declan Shalvey Image Comics, 2015 ISBN: 9781632154798 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, and comiXology ebook Injection centers around five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal, and the consequences they must face after inflicting The Injection on the planet. Years earlier, Maria Kilbride founded the Cross Culture-Contamination Unit (CCCU), funded through […]