Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino (Director and Writer), Robert Richardson (Cinematography), Fred Raskin (Editor), Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie (Cast) Released July 26, 2019 SPOILER WARNING: This review contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Once Upon a Time, I was a huge Quentin Tarantino fan. I’d seen…
2019 Hugo Award Reviews: Novels Part One
Welcome back to the series reviewing the prose fiction in the running for this year’s Hugo Awards! With Best Short Story, Best Novelette and Best Novella covered, all that remains is Best Novel. Here are the first three finalists in the category…
Powers of X #1: The End is the Beginning is the End
Powers of X #1 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colors), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), R.B. Silva (artist) Marvel Comics July 31, 2019 This review contains spoilers for Powers of X #1 Powers of X #1 begins on a park bench ten years ago and ends in a library a thousand years into…
Batman: Rebirth #75 – It’s Bane’s World, We’re Just Living In It!
Batman: Rebirth #75 Tony Salvador Daniel (artist), Mitch Gerads (inker), Tomeu Morey (colorist), Tom King (writer) DC Comics July 17, 2019 Batman: Rebirth #75 marks the beginning of “City Of Bane,” and the beginning of the end to Tom King’s Batman run, and it doesn’t hesitate to come out of the gate with a compelling…
The Freeze Vol. 1: Who Deserves to Be Saved?
The Freeze Volume 1 Troy Peteri (letterer), Phillip Sevy (illustrator and colourist), Dan Wickline (writer) Top Cow Productions, Inc. May 8, 2019 The world is swallowed up by an unusual apocalypse when the entire population is simultaneously frozen in place. Well, everyone except Ray, who immediately discovers that he is the only person capable of…
DC PUBWATCH SDCC 2019 (and July) Edition
Greetings from the other side of San Diego Comic-Con! Oddly enough, most of the bigger news for this month’s DC Pubwatch came before SDCC, and unlike last year there were no big new series announced at any of the DC panels this year. Only Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner got…
Cracking Open the Egg: William Gibson’s Alien 3
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Tamra Bonvillain (colorist), Johnnie Christmas (writer and artist), William Gibson (original screenplay), Nate Piekos (letterer) Dark Horse Comics August 7, 2019 In his author(ish) foreword, William Gibson relays the story of how he, an Alien/s fan, supposes he surprised and dismayed the studio by delivering a script for Alien 3 that…
Killers #1: Magic! Ninjas! Magic Ninjas!
Killers #1 Fernando Dagnino (Artist), B Clay Moore (Writer), Jeff Powell (Letters), José Villarrubia (Colours) Valiant Comics 31 July, 2019 Desdemona Rush returns home to find a masked man dead in her hallway, alongside her beloved companion. She needs answers—they lie in Burano, Italy, with a former covert colleague Roger Thorpe. Traveling there is the…
Superman’s Pal (and Problem) Jimmy Olsen Is Our Delight
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #1 Clayton Cowles (letters), Nathan Fairbairn (colors and cover), Matt Fraction (writer), Steve Lieber (art and cover) DC Comics July 17, 2019 When Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen was announced several months ago, it immediately became my most highly anticipated book of the year, and indeed of many years. I’m not the…
Dead Kings is Tonally Confusing but Somehow Has a Great Ending
Dead Kings Vol. 1 Lauren Affe (Colours), Thomas Mauer (Letters), Steve Orlando (Writer), Matthew Dow Smith (Artist) Aftershock Comics July 30, 2019 Thrice-Nine, an apocalyptic wasteland, is all that is left of the once-glorious Rus. The denizens of the city, called Niners, are despised by all. But that doesn’t stop Sasha Vasnetsov from marching into…
2019 Hugo Award Reviews: Novellas Part Two
Welcome to another instalment of our six-part series looking at this year’s finalists for the Hugo Awards! The previous post covered three contenders for Best Novella. Now let us round off the category by looking at the three that remain…
House of X #1: All These Worlds are Yours—Except Krakoa
House of X #1 VC’s Clayton Cowles (letterer), Marte Gracia (colorist), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Pepe Larraz (artist), Tom Muller (design) Marvel Comics July 24, 2019 House of X #1 has been touted as a new beginning for the X-Men, that once indomitable franchise that was knocked off its pedestal in recent years for reasons that…