Daughters of the DragonPalmiotti & Gray, Khari Evans ( Read more... )

The triumphant return of the venerable horror anthology is... not so triumphant. I picked up issue two on one of my grazing trips to the comic store. It's how I discovered Scalped and innumerable favourites, so the grazing method of comics buying is nothing to sneeze at. Anyway, I picked up Creepy, then I went home, drew a bath and settled in to ( Read more... )

Just watched Easy Virtue with Jessica Biel, Kristen Scott Thomas, Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. I don't care what anybody says - it was lovely, and Jessica Biel is lovely. (Haters to the left, blah blah). My goodness she is stunning in period costume, and delivers an unexpectedly confident and mature performance. Colin Firth does rumpled, disaffected ( Read more... )

New Trek is a good movie. Good enough to pave over a handful of rather enormous plot holes, and keep me from caring about the slight bumpiness in the road. It's slick, ballsy and exactly what the franchise needed. I went with a group of die-hard and not-so-die-hard Trek fans (none of us consider ourselves Trekkies, exactly), and the reaction was ( Read more... )

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Kirk is the wrong kind of pretty. Shatner could bring the boyish charm, but he had a more adult physicality. New Kirk looks like he belongs on a WB show. The other potential problem I'm seeing with new Kirk is a lack of gravitas. Shatner didn't always manage it, but he certainly reached for it. His most famous tic, the slow talk with weird pauses, ( Read more... )

So I haven't updated in a bit - haven't found the time. I've been settling into my new job with a cabling company while continuing on at my retail job. I got a bonus from the retail job. I spent a chunk of it on books.

Books:

Lone Wolf and Cub 1 & 2 (because deralte convinced me it was time ( Read more... )

Ok, these are not going to be positive reviews. I give you fair warning. Get out while you still can.

Invincible Iron Man #2I'll start with the good. Fraction did a little better with the tech-talk this time, although it tends to be imho a lot easier to bullshit about jet engines, than it is to bullshit about experimental bio-augments ( Read more... )

So I finally got around to reading Invincible Iron Man #1 and big surprise, it didn't exactly thrill me. I came away from it thinking that Matt Fraction watches way too much bad sci-fi, and doesn't know the first thing about science. You don't have to know a lot about science to write science fiction, but you need to sound like you do. Fraction ( Read more... )

So over on CBR, folks are talking about Carol's effectiveness, or lack thereof, as a leader. I said:

Carol is a good leader as written by Brian Reed, and most other writers. She's a bad leader as written by Bendis. His Carol is probably the most indecisive and mild she's ever been. Brian Reed, for all his other flaws, understands that Carol is ( Read more... )

A couple months back I started reading Birds of Prey posts on scans_daily. It seemed like a fairly cool book, and I decided to read from the start. So I read all the way from the first mini to issue 114 - a few months behind the current issue. Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone are the two writers who really shaped this book. Dixon developed the idea of the Birds, ( Read more... )