A few hours prior to writing this review I took some nootropics for the first time in well over a week. Two to be precise, in addition to a caffeine concentrate claiming on the box to burn fat. After the seasons festivities, marked by a two-day pub crawl across the entire isle of Manhattan, hitting…
I count it as fortuitous to have a tale of harrows and hauntings at just the season for such; All Hallow’s Eve has nothing on Christmas Eve.
It was not all too long ago that I too was nineteen and naïf, a neophyte initiate into an ancient religion, studying at the feet of wizened masters as their most precocious and prodigious pupil.
The story of Rao’s ascendancy is in ways an inverse of the Nativity narrative, replete with celestial visitation and a new star shinning in the heavens.
Klaus #2 is an absolutely joyful book, in the fullest sense of the word. It is full of depictions of merriment, particularly scenes of the pesant children, destitute and deprived, discovering to their delight piles of presents to play with. Dan Mora captures in their eyes that same twinkle which Moore attributed to Saint Nicholas.…
Aaron’s inversion of the traditionally villainous role of Cain and the saintly role of Noah is a deliberate subversion and deconstruction of the Judeo-Christian myth of the Deluge… in which he critiques the most outwardly pious and devout but inwardly hypocritical and irreligious.
The Force Awakens is a new A New Hope… the very particular plot points of Episode IV hit with the precision Kenobi strangely attributed to Imperial Stormtroopers.
While Robinson’s still playing with DC’s archetypes, such are set within Marvel’s multiverse, and if he can replicate for the House of Ideas the success he had at the Distinguished Competition, Squadron Supreme should prove among the best books to come out of All-New Marvel Now.
In Darth Vader Annual #1, the power of the Dark Side is on display, upping the ante once again, not by destroying the world of Shu-torun, but by subjugating it. Vader tightens his grip, but to Leia’s inevitable dismay, this star system does not slip through his fingers.
There are few things I love more in life than a meaty drop of exposition. I don’t know how to say that without such sounding sarcastic, but it’s as sincere a statement as every I’ve spoken. My favorite chapters of The Lord of the Rings aren’t the battles of Helm’s Deep or Pellenor Fields;…
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