Comic (and related media) reviews
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chuckroFairest, Volume 2 - Have you enjoyed everything else in the Fables universe? This is more of the same, though it features the particularly disturbing life of Rapunzel and bloody mayhem with Japanese fables.
Fables: Wolves of the Heartland - Have you enjoyed everything else in the Fables universe, but felt it could use more naked people? This has 1,000% of your Recommended Daily Allowance of werewolf dong.
Earth-2, Volumes 1 and 2 - While these are mostly origin stories of rebooted golden age characters, there’s some good world building and they’re decent stories overall. I’m interested to see where this characterization of Terry Sloan as Watchman Ozymandias is going. Also credit for rebooting one character as gay (Green Lantern), three as people of color (Hawkgirl, Dr. Fate, Crimson Avenger), and one gender-swapped (Crimson Avenger); and keeping Michael Holt Mr. Terrific.
I, Vampire, Volume 3 - There is not a single plot point in this book that hasn’t been done somewhere else (mostly by White Wolf), but it is delightfully witty. John Constantine appears, and gives the most in-character reason for leaving the protagonists to deal with a problem themselves that I’ve ever seen.
While I’m here, Justice League: Doom was pretty good, about on par with Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as a decent spin on a standard story. Like most of the other adaptations, this takes a pragmatic approach of cutting out complicating factors and trading in things that work better on the screen. It stands alone better than most comic storylines do, certainly.
The Wonder Woman animated movie, while really violent, works quite well. (Though, I'll admit, I wasn't wild about their use of Etta Candy.) DC could probably make a lot of money filming the exact same movie as live-action for a big screen release.
(Overall, the animated adaptation movies have been good if not great; the ones that vary further from their source material and assume the audience knows less are generally stronger.)
Oh, and we watched a chunk of Big Bang Theory, Season 6. I'm still not crazy about the show, but it gets better as they get further from the original premise and are forced to round out all of the characters and introduce new ones. The episodes that focus on the girls are often stronger than those that don't, and I genuinely enjoyed "The Bakersfield Expedition."
Fables: Wolves of the Heartland - Have you enjoyed everything else in the Fables universe, but felt it could use more naked people? This has 1,000% of your Recommended Daily Allowance of werewolf dong.
Earth-2, Volumes 1 and 2 - While these are mostly origin stories of rebooted golden age characters, there’s some good world building and they’re decent stories overall. I’m interested to see where this characterization of Terry Sloan as Watchman Ozymandias is going. Also credit for rebooting one character as gay (Green Lantern), three as people of color (Hawkgirl, Dr. Fate, Crimson Avenger), and one gender-swapped (Crimson Avenger); and keeping Michael Holt Mr. Terrific.
I, Vampire, Volume 3 - There is not a single plot point in this book that hasn’t been done somewhere else (mostly by White Wolf), but it is delightfully witty. John Constantine appears, and gives the most in-character reason for leaving the protagonists to deal with a problem themselves that I’ve ever seen.
While I’m here, Justice League: Doom was pretty good, about on par with Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as a decent spin on a standard story. Like most of the other adaptations, this takes a pragmatic approach of cutting out complicating factors and trading in things that work better on the screen. It stands alone better than most comic storylines do, certainly.
The Wonder Woman animated movie, while really violent, works quite well. (Though, I'll admit, I wasn't wild about their use of Etta Candy.) DC could probably make a lot of money filming the exact same movie as live-action for a big screen release.
(Overall, the animated adaptation movies have been good if not great; the ones that vary further from their source material and assume the audience knows less are generally stronger.)
Oh, and we watched a chunk of Big Bang Theory, Season 6. I'm still not crazy about the show, but it gets better as they get further from the original premise and are forced to round out all of the characters and introduce new ones. The episodes that focus on the girls are often stronger than those that don't, and I genuinely enjoyed "The Bakersfield Expedition."
