Posted in Reviews, tagged All-New X-Factor, comics, Review on April 11, 2014| 1 Comment »
Danger! Danger, Remy LeBeau!
Yeah, I say we just feed Nil to Danger before reprogramming her not to go all Terminator on everyone… but that’s just what I would do. To bad he has a thief’s honor and gets all noble long enough for Remy to defuse the situation… oh well.
But man, Remy, you kissed Danger… do you really think you’re that much of a damn fine hot sexy Cajun boy that you can just kiss people better?
Sounds legit.
Oh, and Polaris… your Magneto is showing…
Posted in Reviews, tagged comics, Magneto, Review on April 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
To say that Magneto has issues… is a less-than-mild understatement.
Is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? Was he right? Was he wrong? Has he changed? Was he always the same? A lot of his development over the years has been back-in-forth between the two extremes. He’s the ultimate sympathetic villain.
Does his past and core beliefs forgive all that he has done? That depends on the person reading his story and how much is too much for them.
Magneto is Draconian at its best… and worse.
And in keeping with his forever teetering on the brink, Magneto is both lost and with purpose in this new series. Xavier is gone. The X-Men are fighting themselves, let alone any real villains. And it’s not like he’s going to be having any family reunions any time soon (regardless if Wanda is alive or dead after Remender is through with her).
But at his core is the simple unequivocal thought: “Never Again… by any means necessary”.
Posted in Reviews, tagged comics, Deadpool, Night of the Living Deadpool, Review on April 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I really need to stop reading this… it’s really good, which is really bad for my horrible dislike of all things zombie…
In this issue we learn that the zombies were created by scientists doing science-y things and apparently having really lousy safety codes to ensure crap like this doesn’t happen or at least stays maintained. You think at least one of those working on the project was genre savvy?
But the real story here is Deadpool.
He’s already his own form of ‘walking dead’ but to actually become a zombie? Kill all those people? Then finally his healing factor brings him back to the living to, pun sorta intended, live with what he was and what he did…
Heart-wrenching.
Posted in Reviews, tagged A+X, comics, Review on April 10, 2014| 1 Comment »
Can we at least get a mini-series of Tony Stark and Broo?
I was skeptical about this pairing and when I started reading it I was little pissed at how douchey Tony was being… but then that’s Tony, he doesn’t work well with others. Broo, on the other hand, works well with everyone because he simply doesn’t have a douche bone in his body. Once Tony realizes that Broo is not some annoying kid, but a mind on his level, the two have a blast, the perfect blend of snark and naivety.
Together they show that even nerds don’t fit into a single definition. It’s an important lesson all too ignored.
As for the Cap/Cyclops/Skrull/Doom storyline going on… it’s all a bit random still.
Rogers stays with the good Skrull while the rest go off to destroy more of Doom’s stuff. Okay, sounds good, but why is Cyclops even helping him anymore? They’ve passed the Skrull threat, it’s all Doom now, so why doesn’t Cap arrest Scott and then send in the whole Avengers team? Maybe if I was more invested in this story then I might care…
Posted in Reviews, tagged ABC, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., AOS, Marvel, television on April 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Hail Hydra?
So May was a big understanding and Hand was not the bad guy, we all saw that coming, but at least it was dealt with in a fairly awesome way. When Hand gives her speech to Simmons I was actually a bit intense and I wasn’t sure how that was going to play out. Garrett wasn’t a terribly big surprise, figured it had to be someone we’d seen before and there wasn’t too many choices.
The big twist was Ward, the whole time he seems to be working perfectly for Coulson’s crew but in reality he’s Hydra? I’m not sure about that. The whole thing with Hand seemed a little too blocky, almost staged. Hand knows Garrett won’t talk under normal interrogation so why not get Ward in there undercover? But what does Garrett have to believe Ward is on his side because if Garrett ever mentioned Hydra to him then you’d think Ward would have said something? This really could go both ways as long as some logistics are ignored here and there, which happens a lot in these kinds of tv shows.
AOS is really coming into itself and it’s been pretty clear that trying to keep ‘in universe’ with the MCU has been the cause of many of its problems. It has a little choke hold on it which does it no favors. Maybe AOS can stretch its wings now that Cap 2 is out of the way and no new MCU movies are set to come out until Age of Ultron, which is still filming.
SHIELD is down and out, no one can be trusted… things are about to get interesting.
Posted in Reviews, tagged ABC, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel, Review, television on April 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
DEPARTMENT H! Yeah, that’s all I got out of this episode…
Okay, so, yeah, it looks pretty bad for May, her being all sneaky and going to shoot Fitz with the Night-Nite gun cause he found her out. Sure, it looks even worse for Victoria Hand who apparently wants to kill everyone on Coulson’s team. But maybe I’ve watched too many tv shows because this all looks like classic Red Herring attempts and I’m not buying any of it. The show is getting down to the wire for the end of the season but there are still several episodes left to go. There is no way they would turn traitor a main character this far from the end nor would they pull the ‘barely a recurring character is the big bad’ this far back either.
Next episode is going to see our ducks put in a row and probably give us another random cliffhanger. I’m pretty sure they will milk this ‘something is rotten in DenmarkSHIELD’ schtick till the actual end of the season. So really, most of this episode was ‘trying to be angsty’ filler for the long con… which is rather annoying because of all the stuff that got shoved aside to make room for an obvious fake-out.
Like Deathlok… we got some great scenes with him, but it was few and between. We need an episode dedicated to him.
And Brad Dourif… how the hell do you get Brad Dourif and not freaking use him? (don’t be Arrow, don’t score great actors just to underuse them) Brad sitting there with his voice semi-computerized was so haunting… SO WHY KILL HIM?!? Keep him to play your villain! I really hope the guy Ward shot was some poor pawn with facial surgery so we can see Dourif again… man he is awesome.
But instead we get Over-Paranoid Coulson ( I mean, really, at this point I think he would suspect himself of being the Clairvoyant) and more lame Skye+Ward stuff (this is a text book on how not to do ‘will they/won’t they’).
This is a lot of greatness in this series, the core is solid, it just really needs to work on the bells and whistles.
Posted in Reviews, tagged comics, Review, X-Men on March 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This series just keeps stalling out.
Not only is this issue a bit dull in the ‘we have to set things up’ kind of way, which can be forgivable, but there is simply nothing unique or interesting or clever about it. Wood is dragging up the B-List dead female characters, surprise surprise the lady who started it all is having second thoughts because she’s a spoiled rich girl in over her head, and Sublime drops some cryptic thing about Shogo because of course he has to. None of this is particularly bad, but it’s not particularly good either.
What is going on?
Is Wood this bad of a writer or is he simply afraid to push things since he’s got the only female team book at the moment? Or worse, he actually thinks this is progressive stuff?
All I want to do is shake my head and I’m left in an existential quandary. I want to stop reading the title because it’s boring and is a bit too close to the sexist borderline… but I don’t want to stop reading it because then Marvel might think that ‘oh, no one wants women lead books’ instead of the truth ‘no one wants to read boring books regardless of the characters’. I guess at the moment it’s a wait and see what Wood is setting up for… Maddie coming back can actually be pretty epic if played right, I’m just not holding my breath.
And I agree with Rachel, I’m hoping we get Rogue back too.
Posted in Reviews, tagged ABC, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., AOS, Review, television on March 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Shouldn’t there have been a bullet in the chamber?
Seriously, does this show not know how guns work? Also, why send Ward, a male, on his own to the back of the building containing the woman who can control men? I understand that sometimes you have to make characters do things to make the plot move forward but do you have to make it so darn obvious?
Speaking of obvious, they are already doing the ‘secretly a traitor’ thing again, this time with May, thought probably isn’t what it looks like, of course.
The only thing that keeps this show from floundering is that is’t fun. Lady Sif shows up and we get a wonderful episode full of action, humor, and some very interesting Easter Eggs, such as OdinLoki wanting Lorelei brought back alive. What plans does he have for the sorceress woman? And where is Fury, no one seems to know, and how is that gonna tie into Winter Soldier? There really is enough here to make a girl giddy.
But still the show relies on plot conveniences and really schmaltzy dialogue which holds it back from being epic. Although, they did manage to not go overboard with the gender divide commentary. It was appropriately snarky.
Lastly, is no one going to comment on the fact that Ward was essentially raped?
Posted in Reviews, tagged comics, Review, Uncanny X-Men on March 9, 2014| 2 Comments »
Did I miss Irma dying her hair red? I know she mentioned it… oh well.
This issue throws you into the story much the way these kids are thrown into Tabula Rasa to fend for themselves as a ‘training exercise’. You know, some days I’m on Scott’s side, other days, I just want to smack him across the face. I understand that these guys need to learn how to protect themselves but, really, throwing them into Tabula Rasa like that without warning? Can we say overkill? Or maybe just ‘trying to get them killed’?
Then Scott goes and be’s the biggest hypocritical douche by kicking out Bond for making a mistake? Seriously? The dude learned his lesson, just like you learned your damn lesson, Scott. You suck.
Yet another case of mucking with Scott’s characterization in order to get the desired outcome. Blech.
Posted in Reviews, tagged Amazing X-Men, comics, Review on March 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know if it’s technically possible to burn down hell… but that sounds awesome…
Everyone is finally brought together, Beast is knocked to his senses, Wolvie and Northstar are found, then Iceman and Firestar are rescued by the Bamfs. It was all appropriately nostalgic and fun. Now the group is ready to go do some damage on the high seas of the afterlife.
What really interests me is the backstory of the Bamfs. We discover where the Red Bamfs came from, and most of the history behind the Blue Bamfs. The biggest question though is what did Nightcrawler offer them? He treats them like family (of course he would) but there is an insurmountable sadness there. I hope this isn’t something that is going to take forever to resolve (if ever).
Until then, we’re going to have a swashbuckler of a time… can’t wait!
Feature Length Gambit & Rogue fan fic movie by JCRG. Cover art by VagabondX
X-Men: The (fan fic) Series 