Season 6 Character Arc: Slayer Returned, To Slayer Alive The season, while PLAGUED with issues (see what to Watch Out For), has a tight plot, and is a fast paced emotional roller coaster. SERIOUS FEELS AHOY. Watch For: Dawn breathing fire, floating Tara is made “COME plete” *wink wink nudge nudge,* and Dark Willow—which is WAY…
Buffy Challenge Season 5
Season 5 Character Arc: Stand Alone Sister to Sacrifice This season is almost all plot and very little monster o’ the week. Basically if you aren’t completely sucked in by the Glory/Spike/family issues story-lines, Buffy isn’t for you anymore, because there aren’t any haunted houses or spooky children to get by on. But you should…
Buffy Challenge: Season 4
Season 4 Character Arc: Fish out of Water to Rebel with a Cause Setting: UC Sunnydale Plotwise the beginning of the season isn’t my fave. On one hand college! And Spike! On the other hand Riley never really did it for me. Yeah, I’m not really for the AW SHUCKS, MA’AM types. At least not…
Short & Sweet: Superior X-Men Orphanage!
Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man Christos N. Gage and Richard Elson; cover by Jeff Dekal Marvel Comics I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I picked up the main Inhumanity series and decided I wanted this one shot to go with it. I’m really glad I picked it up. The Superior Spider-Man title itself seems…
Review: Ms. Marvel #2
Ms. Marvel #2 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics “All Mankind” — Part Two of Five Part one of our newest Marvel heroine’s story, “Metamorphosis” was my opening review of the Ms. Marvel title. Issue two gets the story moving. This comic starts with the moment after…
Buffy Challenge Season 3
Season 3 Character Arc: Gone Girl to White Knightress Principal: Snyder This is where the plot actually start to gel. Characters start to make choices based on who they are. Things really start moving! This doesn’t mean I LIKE everything that happens. IN FACT I AM QUITE GRUMPY about certain things. *grump* #TeamOz Watch for:…
I’m Taking The Buffy Challenge
All the seasons of BtVS–TV & Comics–in 2 weeks. Can I do it? I dunno. But I’m trying because … if not my Kickstarter might drive me crazy. So here it is, my first recap. (SPOILER FREE!)
Reel Geek Girl: Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014) Ty Burrell, Max Charles with Patrick Warburton Stanley Tucci and Stephen Colbert PG 92 Minutes When it comes to expanding animated shorts from the 60s and 70s into full-fledged movies, there’s a right way to do it, and there’s a very, very wrong way to do it. The live action…
Short & Sweet
Uncanny X-Men #18 Bendis, Lozano, Rudy Marvel Comics What. Was. This? Aside from the cover, which messes with the suspension of disbelief (how in the hell do you get close enough to Cyclops, wonky powers or not, to hold a gun to his head?), this issue is a dramatic shift straight into huh? from the…
Review: Young Romance 2: The Early Simon & Kirby Romance Comics
The tall, chiseled man takes his love into his arms: “Toni—I love you so much! Do you think you can marry a bum who’s gone straight?” The woman—red-lipped, her jet black hair cascading over her shoulders, swoons, “Of course I’ll marry you—you sweet wonderful palooka!” This is the world of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s…
Review–Superman: Lois Lane One Shot
Superman: Lois Lane Marguerite Bennet Emanuela Lupachina, Megan Ketrick, Ig Guara, Diogenes Neves The first thing I noticed about this one shot was the majority female storytelling team. The second thing I noticed was the shining filament of connectivity with previous versions of Lois Lane. Even though this is The New 52! (complete with exclamation…
Store Review: Rodman Comics
Rodman Comics 318 South Ankeny Blvd Ankeny, IA 50023 (515) 965-4592 My partner and I just bought a house in Ankeny, Iowa. It’s a suburb of Des Moines (our capital city) with a population of about 50,000. I’ve been living out of state for a couple years and knew very little about Ankeny so I…
