By Sam Christopher The penultimate chapter of the huge DCU event Blackest Night is Green Lantern #52, in which Sinestro appears to become Libra (remember that story from the JLA 100 Page Giants?) At least this time we don’t have to sit through Black Canary revamping Amazo’s costume next ish. More, we also see the [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: The End of Blackest Night – Live by Dawn?
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Catching Up on Comics: Take a Break with the Bat-Family
By Sam Christopher First, we start off with Batman: The Streets of Gotham #10. Damian is tired of waiting for Dick to uncover the clues necessary to capture the killer of the children the two have been tracking for the last little while here, and we see another kid character, who reminds me of Blockbuster [...]
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Catching Up on Comics: Whedonverse
By Sam Christopher Been out of touch mostly for the last few weeks so I have some catching up to do. We’ll start with Angel and Buffy. John Byrne’s Angel Special: Lorne starts off with Illyria getting “mugged”—boy, do those guys get a surprise—and ends up with our heroes saving… you probably can figure it [...]
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Event Review: Yuri’s Night- Pensacola, Fl. April 9th, 2010
By Sam Christopher On April 12th, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space and the first human to achieve orbit. This, of course, touched off the Space Race, a competition between world powers USSR and USA that would eventually culminate in the US reaching the Moon. This striving to outdo one [...]
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Movie Review: Clash of the Titans 2010
By Sam Christopher Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I’ll be the first to admit I’m a sucker for a good adventure story. Anything where a single person or group of people is battling against near-impossible odds and I’m pretty much there. Oh, sure, there are times where I’ll blow off one of these stories—like [...]
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Book Review: Zomblog
A Novel by TW Brown Reviewed by Sam Christopher Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Samuel Todd has problems. He’s a divorced father of a teenager, he sings for very little money in a band that basically does frat parties and such, and his main job is as a paper delivery guy. Oh, and he [...]
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Comic Book Reviews: The Hungry Dead in Comics
By Sam Christopher On the undead front this time, Zenescope Entertainment presents The Waking #1, which looks to be a different kind of zombie story. Raven Gregory and Vic Drujiniu spin a series of incidents, a strange confluence of events. One man has a secret that’s tearing him apart—and it probably literally would if it [...]
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Comic Book Reviews: Of Gods and Titans
By Sam Christopher In our lone Marvel entry this week, Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente say goodbye to a god in Hercules: Fall of an Avenger #1. The Lion of Olympus is dead—again—and all his friends come to mourn his passing. Fellow princes Thor and Namor speak at an informal gathering, along with Bruce [...]
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Comic Book Reviews: The Arrow Falls
By Sam Christopher Spinning out of the Justice League of America: Cry for Justice miniseries we have the Justice League: Rise and Fall Special in which the arguments over Oliver Queen’s decision to unilaterally mete out justice to Prometheus really begin. In the aftermath of Prometheus’ devastating attack on Star City the heroes split between [...]
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Book Review: World War Z
A Zombie novel by Max Brooks Reviewed by Sam Christopher Rating: 5 out of Stars (Highest Rating) I’ve never made any bones about my love for zombie fiction. I love the movies, mainly the Romero style but I can deal with virtually any set of parameters for the dead rising, ever since I snuck into [...]
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