I'm still not certain if its as amazing as all the online praise/hype its gotten.  But it definitely is a great movie and not just a Marvel movie.  In fact, outside a few minor call-outs (and the 2nd post credit scene) it could exsist without being tied into the greater MCU while still fitting perfectly within it.  Also I can't say Killmonger is ( Read more... )

October:
Short Fiction:
New Reads:  Vivian Cathe's (ed) Humans Wanted

• Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus
• C.B. Lee's Not Your Sidekick
• Charles E. Gannon's Fire With Fire
• Ken Liu's Wall of Storms
• A.J. Hartley's Firebrand

Paper Girls #17:  Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters + Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Chiang draws the hell out of both battling giant robots and a sexy goth boy.

Wormwood Gentleman Corpse #2: Writter/artist Ben Templesmith.  Wormwood gets recruited by the Ghost of Lincoln to save America ( Read more... )

July:
Short Fiction:  Melinda Snodgrass' When the Devil Drives
New Read:  Ben Aaronovitch's the Farthest Station.  Latest "Rivers of London" book with ghosts on trains.

• Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue.  3rd "Raven King" book.
• T. Kingfisher's the Halycon Fairy Book.  Collection of humorously annotated obscure fairy tales.
• Robert Charles Wilson's ( Read more... )

Haven't done a comics post in a couple weeks.  But a fairly Halloween-ish flavor pull.

Copperhead #15:Writer Jay Faerber, Artist Drew MOss, Colorist Ron Riley & Letterer Thomas Mauer.  Violent father, missing mom & space aliens!
Saga #48: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Two boys in the woods at ( Read more... )

Even if some of the Marston family dispute the potential f actuality of this bio-piece, the Marston and his family make for a interesting story.  And thats before adding in the whole creation of Wonder Woman.  Of course I do have to wonder if I'd feel the same if the core trio were played by actors even vaguely as average looking as the real people ( Read more... )

Rat Queens Special: Orc Dave #1: Author Kurtis J. Wiebe, Illustrator Max Dunbar, Letterer Micah Myers & Colorist Tamra Bonvillain.  Non-secret origin of Orc Dave with Fiona Staples cover.
Southern Bastards #18: Writer & Color Jason Latour, Artist & flashback colors Chris Brunner & Letters Jared K. Fletcher.  Roberta Tubbs engages in some enhanced ( Read more... )

Bitch Planet Triple Feature #4: Marc Deschamps & Mindy Lee, with colors by Leonardo Olea "Life of a Sportsman", Sara Woolley's "Bodymod" and Vita Ayala and Rossi Gifford's "To Be Free..."
Mirror #8: by Emma Rios and Hwei Lim.  Refugees from the Izrah colony, both human and animal, begin to search for a new potential home.
Invincible #140: Writer ( Read more... )

Groo: Play of the Gods #3: By Sergio Aragones, Wordsmith Mark Evanier, Colorists John Ercek and Tom Luth & Letterer Stan Sakai.  The search for cheese dip continues!

Mech Cadet Yu #2: Written by Greg Pak, Illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa, Colored by Triona Farrell & Lettered by Simon Bowland.  Training montage!
Lumberjanes #42: Written by Shannon ( Read more... )

8/28-9/4
Swiss Army Man:  Started this very odd movie, but when Paul Dano started using his corpse buddy as a waterskin, I kind of had to tap out.

Arrow s.4: Neal McDonough's Demien Darhk is pure villainous joy.  Also John has a lousy brother, Felicity has a super-villain dad and Oliver has a son.  Plus John Constantine and Vixen.  Evil Magic Merc ( Read more... )