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Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

The Boys #44 Review

The Boys #44 Review

The Boys #44 Slow and steady but not too exciting. That’s the best description I can give to this book. The usual crudeness, cursing and nudity, but no violence of any kind. Still a good book though.  Good character development... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “Vincent and the Doctor” Review

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Doctor Who Vincent and the Doctor It’s been said that the best episodes of a TV show are the ones that stray from the typical formula.  “Vincent and the Doctor” follows this line of reasoning, in that this was a... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “Cold Blood” Review

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Doctor Who Cold Blood It’s almost difficult for me to judge this episode fairly, as it hits on a number of tropes in fiction which annoy me.  Single-minded military characters, whose answer to everything is to simply kill, even when... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “The Hungry Earth” Review

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Doctor Who The Hungry Earth After last week’s “character heavy” episode, it was nice to have one that focused primarily on the plot.  This one was pretty typical: humans are trying to get someplace they don’t belong, they tick off... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “Amy’s Choice” Review

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Doctor Who Amy’s Choice The typical problem with this type of episode is that you always know which is the real world and which isn’t.  The real world is obviously the one where the status quo is exactly like the... (Continue reading)

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Smallville “Salvation” Review

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Smallville Salvation And thus ends the War of the Supermen.  I mean, Smallville Season 9. All in all, this was a pretty solid episode.  There were only a few missteps that tripped me up.  Like Tess letting Zod crawl out... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “The Vampires of Venice” Review

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Doctor Who The Vampires of Venice Probably the thing I liked least about the “Rose Years” of the first few seasons was the sad situation of the character Mickey.  Mickey was Rose’s boyfriend, who was constantly being left behind by... (Continue reading)

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Smallville “Hostage” Review

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Smallville Hostage As I’ve said a number of times in the past, this show works best when there is a balance between the ‘time traveling alien conspiracies’ and the normal everyday interactions of real people.  And tonight, this episode scored... (Continue reading)

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Doctor Who “Flesh and Stone” Review

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Doctor Who Flesh and Stone A few weeks ago I proposed the theory that this season’s “Bad Wolf” would be a countdown.  The first episode of the season was titled The Eleventh Hour, and the second episode featured a character... (Continue reading)

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Smallville “Sacrifice” Review

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Smallville Sacrifice Episodes directed by stars such as Tom Welling and Allison Mack tend to be the best episodes of the season.  Here we have Justin Hartley writing his first episode, and we see that the trend continues.  I suppose... (Continue reading)

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X-Men Legacy #231 Review

X-Men Legacy #231 Review

After an extensive run now as ‘X-Men Legacy’ writer; Mike Carey gets the characters down quite well, so this should be a shining example of a good x-book as I believe the characters are the main attraction for x-readers, but... (Continue reading)

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Secret Warriors #10 Review

Secret Warriors #10 Review

After 9 issues of Secret Warriors, I was thinking about giving up on this series. Hickman and young gun artist Stefan Casselli did a good job on the first arc, but with the second arc God of War, God of... (Continue reading)

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Dark X-Men #1 – Review

Dark X-Men #1 - Review

This is a book with some real characters in it. You get the always enchanting and dangerous Mystique, the wacked out and needy Mimic, the power junky Omega and supreme evil Dr Henry McCoy from the alternate reality; Age of... (Continue reading)

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Batman: Widening Gyre #2 Review

Batman: Widening Gyre #2 Review

Special Note: My apologies for the lack of Batman reviewing of late; sometimes real life gets in the way. If Batman: The Widening Gyre #2 and #1 were released with the writer and artist’s name blanked out I wonder if... (Continue reading)

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Thunderbolts #137 Review

Thunderbolts #137 Review

Thunderbolts #137 Review   WRITER: Rick Remender PENCILS: Mahmud Asrar Sometimes it’s nice to get a one and done superhero tale and this is exactly what this book is. I have not been reading Thunderbolts since Warren Elis left but... (Continue reading)

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