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Mixed Media Reviews
Jun. 23rd, 2015 06:34 pmStruck By Lightning - Written and starring Chris Colfer, this movie isn’t entirely sure what it’s trying to be. It’s not quite a shaggy dog story, but the elements of that mean it’s not really a coming of age story; and it’s got major elements of a stock teen comedy but is ultimately a tragedy. It’s got some clever bit, and some polemic bits, and some attempts at heartbreaking bits—actually, it feels a bit like Colfer took every good idea he had / everything he wanted to put on screen and crammed them all into a single movie. How well that works is debatable.
Really Terrible Bible Stories Vol. 1: Genesis, by Dana Hunter - Most things you can get for free via Amazon Prime Unlimited are worth what you pay for them, and this isn’t really an exception. It reads like a series of blog posts, each dissection a couple of chapters of the book of Genesis and explaining why it’s actually terrible. The thing is, her overblown and hyperbolic style isn’t actually terribly funny; and if her nominal goal is to convince Christians that their scared texts are full of terrible things, she isn’t actually going to persuade anyone. (Of course, her obvious actual goal is to convince fellow atheists that Christians are illiterate idiots and of how much smarter atheists are.)
Afterlife with Archie, Issues #1-7 - Horrible mistakes are made, and Riverdale becomes the center point of a zombie apocalypse. It’s like The Walking Dead, only starring Archie and the gang. I’m not the biggest fan of zombie stories and their tropes, but this was decently done. As “adult” Archie stories go, I think there are worse ways to go. Though I have issues with the slow pacing of the story—I feel like everything that happens in the first five books could have been crammed into a single issue of Dilton’s Strange Science, back in the day. I also read the first issue of the Sabrina comic that is marketed as a spin-off, but is clearly in its own continuity with a similar style. It’s fun, but I’m not planning to shell out for the trade paperbacks.
Really Terrible Bible Stories Vol. 1: Genesis, by Dana Hunter - Most things you can get for free via Amazon Prime Unlimited are worth what you pay for them, and this isn’t really an exception. It reads like a series of blog posts, each dissection a couple of chapters of the book of Genesis and explaining why it’s actually terrible. The thing is, her overblown and hyperbolic style isn’t actually terribly funny; and if her nominal goal is to convince Christians that their scared texts are full of terrible things, she isn’t actually going to persuade anyone. (Of course, her obvious actual goal is to convince fellow atheists that Christians are illiterate idiots and of how much smarter atheists are.)
Afterlife with Archie, Issues #1-7 - Horrible mistakes are made, and Riverdale becomes the center point of a zombie apocalypse. It’s like The Walking Dead, only starring Archie and the gang. I’m not the biggest fan of zombie stories and their tropes, but this was decently done. As “adult” Archie stories go, I think there are worse ways to go. Though I have issues with the slow pacing of the story—I feel like everything that happens in the first five books could have been crammed into a single issue of Dilton’s Strange Science, back in the day. I also read the first issue of the Sabrina comic that is marketed as a spin-off, but is clearly in its own continuity with a similar style. It’s fun, but I’m not planning to shell out for the trade paperbacks.
