Manga Review: Shonen Jump (2020) It’s the eighth anniversary of this blog, and time once again to look at the online version of Weekly Shounen Jump! There haven’t been any major changes to the format since last year. One Piece is still the longest-running feature, and is closing in on 1000 chapters! There was a… Continue reading Manga Review: Shonen Jump (2020)
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Magazine Review: High Adventure #172: The Hell’s Angels Squad
Magazine Review: High Adventure #172: The Hell’s Angels Squad edited by John P. Gunnison This time around, the focus is on the French Foreign Legion stories of Warren Hastings Miller originally published in Blue Book magazine back in the late 1920s. As I’ve discussed before, tales of the Legion were a popular subgenre of pulp… Continue reading Magazine Review: High Adventure #172: The Hell’s Angels Squad
Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma
Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma Cassardis is a sleepy fishing village, very little new or exciting things happen there, and the local garrison of soldiers is bored to distraction as honestly there’s nothing to protect the village from. The most interesting person in Cassardis is Ethan, whose youthful ocean-based trauma means he spends his days going… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma
Comic Book Review: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes 1
Comic Book Review: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes 1 edited by Cory Sedlmeier As has been mentioned on this blog before, by the late 1940s, superheroes had become passe in comic books. A handful continued to be published over at National Publications (DC) on a regular basis, and there was the odd minor publisher title,… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes 1
Comic Book Review: The Army of Dr. Moreau
Comic Book Review: The Army of Dr. Moreau written by David F. Walker, art by Carl Sciacchitano, color by Sara Machajewski The year is 1939, and agents of the British and American governments have been sent to visit H.G. Wells, well-known author of utopian books. But it is not one of his utopian volumes they… Continue reading Comic Book Review: The Army of Dr. Moreau
Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters edited by Tim Marquitz & N.X. Sharps Like many a Godzilla fan, I have a fondness for movies where gigantic monsters rampage across the landscape. The fandom has more or less adopted the Japanese term for such monsters, kaiju. While the big critters have been a staples of… Continue reading Book Review: Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Movie Review: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Movie Review: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi It is the year 2065, and in the ruins of Old New York, Dr. Aki Ross is looking for a plant. Some thirty odd years before, a meteor hit the Caspian Mountains, releasing the Phantoms. These ethereal beings come in multiple shapes and sizes;… Continue reading Movie Review: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Princess Glimmer of Bright Moon has a plan. If she and her best friend Bow can find the piece of First Ones technology that he’s detecting in the nearby Whispering Woods, her mother Queen Angella will be so impressed that she will allow Glimmer to take a… Continue reading Webtoon Review: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Book Review: The War of the Worlds
Book Review: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Early in the Twentieth Century, odd flashes of light are seen on the surface of the planet Mars. This phenomenon is highly interesting to scientists, but seems irrelevant to most people going about their lives on Earth. That is, until what is initially mistaken for… Continue reading Book Review: The War of the Worlds
Magazine Review: Judge Dredd Megazine #417
Magazine Review: Judge Dredd Megazine #417 edited by Matt Smith I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before that Judge Dredd, the breakout character from 2000 AD was so popular that the publishing company spun off a monthly magazine featuring him and his world, which has lasted a remarkably long time. It’s still primarily featuring stories tangentially… Continue reading Magazine Review: Judge Dredd Megazine #417