Set during the “Angel is Evil” saga in the series (mid-late second season) Ring of Fire explains the commented on, but never really explained plot point in Undays of our Lives where Dru leaves Spike! I had always wondered on rewatching the series what exactly happened between the murderous lovers. Turns out Dru leaves Spike […]
Category: graphic novels
by Andi Watson, Joe Bennett and Rick Ketcham The Remaining Sunlight is less a cohesive single story and more several comic Buffy shorts. In the first Xander takes martial arts lessons to try to keep up with Buffy and learns that being less powerful than the slayer isn’t the worst thing that could happen. Despite […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz
May 7, 2015by Dan Brereton, Hector Gomez and Sandu Florea The Dust Waltz is the first BtVS graphic novel, set very early in the series, in the early high school years. It sees Buffy and the gang, plus some, trying to save Sunnydale from a feud between two ancient sisters. In their tradition the sisters have brought […]
Robot God Akamatsu is the first volume of a YA graphic novel series. Back in the days of Atlantis, humanity was protected by the titular Robot God Akamatsu and the three pilots who operated the robot god from a space station orbiting the Earth. To engage the Robot God, they would invoke the term Deus […]
Four of Poe’s classic tales are presented here. In The Black Cat, a man blames his black cat for his descent into murder and madness, The Masque of the Red Death is a tale about nobles who hole up in a castle in an attempt to escape the disease that is ravaging the countryside. Hop-Frog is a story about a […]
Review: Runaways volume 2
October 28, 2014On the run from their murderous parents (who framed them for the murder) teens Alex, Chase, Gert, Karolina, Molly and Nico have tons to learn. They aren’t exactly close friends, they have pretty…,um, classic views of superheros and villains, no clue about their own abilities and there are dangers other than The Pride out in […]
Review: New Mutants volume 2
October 24, 2014Poor New Mutants. Professor X just “rescued” them from their homes to train them to control their mutant powers and their first field trip finds them lost in the Amazon, taken captive by a secret city modelling itself after Rome and battling it out in the Colosseum. All alone, with no adults to depend on they […]
Review: Spike: Shadow Puppets
September 19, 2014Buffy and Angel fans know they can depend on their series to be hilarious, yet innovative and poignant. One of the episodes proving this point is “Smile Time” where Angel is turned into a puppet by a nest of demonic puppets feeding off their children viewers. This episode proves to be hilarious and yet maintain […]
Review: Angel: Spotlight
September 16, 2014A side book in the Angel-verse this volume contains tales of Illyria (very emotional with a complexity of character that most stories wish they had), Gunn (very fun and action packed), Wesley (a sad story given what fans know that the Wes in the story doesn’t), Doyle (showing why he sought out Angel, sparking the […]
DVD Review: Batman Beyond: Season 1
June 7, 2014Batman Beyond is an older series (2006) but one not to be missed by either comic fans or science fiction fans. Some time in the future, well after Batman’s glory days, teenager Terry McGinnis tries to chase down his father’s killer and instead ends up employed by Bruce Wayne…to be the new Batman. Beyond seems […]