Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Road to the Hugo Awards: Selected Fancasts, part 2 – The “Professionals”
Continuing to go through the Best Fancast Hugo Award eligibility list on this Google Spreadsheet, there’s something I noticed which I thought was interesting: For a category called “Best Fancast,” there are an awful lot of “professionals” on it. This is not to say that someone who gets paid to write and/or edit and/or create […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: Hugo Awards, Matt Wallace, Max Temkin, Mur Lafferty, original Doctor Who, Patrick Rothfuss, Podcasts, Toby Hadoke
Road to the Hugo Awards: Selected Science Fiction Short Stories, part 1
Following up on my last post wherein I said that I’d be reading (or listening to) as many 2016 Hugo Award-eligible works as possible before the nomination deadline, the first thing I did was to set a bookmark for this Google spreadsheet because it seems to be a pretty good place to start when it […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: Aliette de Bodard, Hugo Awards, Jason Kimble, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Laura Pearlman, nominations, Rhiannon R-S, short stories
Graphically Speaking: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” #12 review
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #12 Writer: Andrew Chambliss Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Nathan Massengill Colors: Michelle Madsen Letters: Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt Executive Produced by Joss Whedon Published by Dark Horse Comics At the end of the last issue, Buffy and Deepscan learned Angel baddies Wolfram and Heart are behind a plot to kill […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Reviews
Strippable Cover Review: The Sandman Slim Trilogy
Reviewing is said to be an easy job, but there are problems. You might have an issue with story and find it difficult to put into words. Conversely, there might be so much to explain that you can’t really get to the process of actually reviewing without six paragraphs of backstory first. Or in some […]
In: Books, Reviews · Tagged with: Aloha from Hell, Kill the Dead, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Strippable Cover
Two Books Enter: An Assembly Such as This versus A Wife for Mr. Darcy
[Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Lauren at Kid Champ for letting me borrow her “Thundertome” idea for this review series. – TL] When I first got my Android-enabled phone, I searched for something to read on it during a long 45 minute subway commute. A Google search for “free ebooks” took me to Google Books […]
In: Books, Reviews, Reviews · Tagged with: adaptation, Mary Lydon Simonsen, Pamela Aidan, Pride & Prejudice, published fan-fiction, Two Books Enter
Graphically Speaking: “Fear Itself: Book 6” review
Fear Itself: Book 6 Written by Matt Fraction Art by Stuart Immonen with Laura Martin, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Chris Eliopoulos Published by Marvel Comics SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS ISSUES, Y’ALL: Where we last left off, Sin, the Red Skull’s daughter unleash ancient Asgardian baddie, The Serpent upon the world. Adding insult to injury, several heroes […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: Captain America, comic book reviews, Fear Itself, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, miniseries, Thor
Strippable Cover Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One Written by Ernest Cline Published by Crown I was a child of the mid 80s, so I was a bit too young for some of the milestones. Still, I remember seeing the familiar barbarian facing a dragon box art of Dungeons and Dragons on the back of my comics, the ratty covers […]
In: Books, Gaming, Movies, Reviews, The Written Word · Tagged with: book reviews, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, Strippable Cover
Graphically Speaking: Yi Soon Shion: Warrior and Defender #1-2 review
Yi Soon Shin #1-2 Written by Onrie Kompan Art by Giovanni Paolo Timpano, Adriana De Los Santos, and Joel Saavedra Published by Onrie Kompan Productions The year is 1591. The Japanese army is laying waste to Korea, raping, pillaging, and leaving a trail of terror in its wake. The only hope is one man…no, not […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: based on a true story, comic book reviews, Korean navy, Yi Soon Shin
Strippable Cover Reviews: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson The apocalypse has hit in many ways over the years. Zombies. Plague. Creeping Ice-Ages. And of course, there’s always the old stand-by favorite, Robots. We’ve seen them plod slowly through the Terminator films or swiftly dive and tear their way through clunky, barely functional ships in The Matrix. But author […]
In: Books, Columns, Reviews, The Written Word · Tagged with: book reviews, Books, Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse, Strippable Cover
Strippable Cover Reviews: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Note: I will do my best to avoid any spoilers, but with something like this, it’s hard not to discuss some minor plot points.) So here we are. Today is it. The six year journey of the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels ends today with the […]
In: Reviews · Tagged with: Comics, Reviews, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour