Because lists are fun. Titles that I still read regularly are italicized.

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The Law of Superheroesby James Daily and Ryan Davidson ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman was totally correct about this film:

I think I preferred The Dark Knight movie, because it had Heath Ledger's Joker and a plot I found hard to predict. Dark Knight Rises doesn't have those things: once the set-up is done you have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen and when (even if you've worked hard to keep yourself spoiler ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read Justice League #1. It was okay. Not bad, not great, just meh. The biggest problem I had with it is that the cover shows you Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Cyborg, but inside you only meet Batman and Green Lantern, a little bit of pre-cyborg Cyborg, and one page of Superman. Nothing of circumstance happens ( Read more... )

Nintendo Magicby Osamu Inoue ( Read more... )

Will Supervillains Be on the Final? (Liberty Vocational Volume 1)
by Naomi Novik and Yishan Li

This is another attempt by Del Rey to combine the American tradition of superheroics with the manga format, which is why comparisons to X-Men Misfits are inevitable. Both books center around a "special girl" at a new school, both girls have a slightly ( Read more... )

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So, X-Men First Class. Saw it on Thursday at a special screening from Teen.com, for an audience that was decidedly not teenage. There were at least some people in their early twenties, and some people brought their kids, though it's not really a kids' movie, mostly due to the themes and not language or violence ( Read more... )

X-Men: Misfits
written by Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier
art by Anzu

I can't exactly say I was looking forward to this when they first announced it, but I was interested, at least. tricianna read it and pretty much said it was just a typical dumb shoujo manga, so maybe I was less interested then? Well, the library had it so I have now read it ( Read more... )

Note: I use both "science fiction" and "speculative fiction" in this, but don't intend them interchangeably. I use "speculative fiction" to indicate when I mean "science fiction and fantasy (and also some horror)."

So the Hugo Awards nominations were announced, and I haven't read a lot of "real" books over the past year so it's no surprise that I ( Read more... )