“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 […]
Soul Eater Season 2 Episode 7
May 14, 2016“The Black Blood Resonance Battle! – A Small Soul’s Grand Struggle against Fear?” Black Star and Maka go against Stein’s commands when they come against Crona. Maka is determined to face Crona and Ragnarok alone. Maka seems to feel a kinship with the tormented meister, or maybe she is just determined to figure out […]
Tor Teen, 2007 ISBN: 0765316412 Available: New Lily Willison and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia start up a girls’ soccer club at her school called the Weregirls. When the new girl, Andra Hewlit, senses that Lily has supernatural powers, she seeks to co-opt them and creates her own soccer club. Lily finds out from […]
Review: Birds of Prey volume 1 by Chuck Dixon
May 10, 2016ISBN: 9781563894848 In the beginning there was Black Canary and Oracle. One is fresh out of a break up with Green Arrow (that Green Arrow, yes) with a passion for kicking evil butt and a somewhat short attention span. The other is wheelchair-bound, hopeful and determined to find a way to still save the world […]
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 […]
Soul Eater: Season 2 Episode 6
May 7, 2016“The Underground Battle Commences – Break Through Medusa’s Vector Arrow?” With the lead characters off to stop Medusa before she can wake the kishin sleeping under the academy Lord Death, Sid and the rest of the students wait trapped in the academy and Lord Death comes clean about why he started the school, why he […]
Lucifer’s quest to steal and secure the dangerous magical artifacts of the world continues. While stealing a painting with an enchanted frame, she crosses a team employed by the mysterious and powerful Madam Cymbaline. She also tries to save a security guard from a more mundane problem—a heart attack—by trapping him in stasis in the […]
Review: The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight
May 3, 2016The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight HarperCollins, May 2016 ISBN-13: 978-0062359094 Available for pre-order: Hardcover, Audible, Audio CD, Kindle edition High school junior Wylie has always had anxiety issues, but since her mother’s death four months earlier she is unable to even leave the house. Her father, a researcher in emotional intelligence, unsure of how […]
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: Soul Eater Part 2, Episode 5
April 30, 2016“The Eve Party Nightmare – And so the Curtain Rises?” As the celebration of the anniversary of the school’s founding begins Death the Kid is both worried and irritated with his father. He has found out that the school is built on a sleeping kishin, and Medusa’s plot is to wake it. Lord Death doesn’t […]