Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Editorial: My thoughts on Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2


So season 1 was an impressive outing for Voltron: Legendary Defender, season 2, which came out earlier this year had a lot to live up to, did it succeed, here's my take.

Sunday, 26 February 2017

4 issue test #39 - Teen Titans (DC Rebirth)

Yes, I know it's another cheat but they use the same logo and this review's late already

It’s DC Rebirth Time again!

I’d previously reviewed a Teen Titans book, it was one of my earliest reviews of this format. It… wasn’t great really, I did drop the book after the 4th issue and even though a couple of ideas tossed did gain my attention, it was never really enough to bring me back in.

But DC Rebirth has shone a new light on the Titans with a new creative team and a new roster. In the writer’s chair is Ben Percy, who is also tackling the Green Arrow books and with artists… well, there are quite a few of them. The roster, I’ll cover in the description since the first issue is primarily about getting everyone together. Speaking of which, let’s get to it.

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 16 review - Legacy of Mandalore

We return to Star Wars Rebels


Following a brilliant episode was a long wait, but the wait’s over, Rebels is back and with a follow up episode to the near-perfection that proceeded, how bad is it gonna look in comparison?

Sunday, 19 February 2017

Editorial: My thoughts on Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 1


Voltron Legendary Defender was initially released on Netflix in July last year. But its roots go back to an anime called Go-Lion, created the animated devision of the company that produces sentai shows, footage from which is used in Power Rangers. The original Voltron series was a dubbed version of Go-Lion, with new bits of animated footage to tone down a few elements and make the odd change, here and there. Legendary Defender is ultimately a reboot of that series, but instead of using footage from a Japanese anime, they're using one of the great animation studios, Studio Mir, the studio that did the vast bulk of Korra. Combine them with an animation powerhouse like Dreamworks and... here's what we get.

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

4 issue test #37 - Jessica Jones

Next and actually last in the Marvel now stuff is Jessica Jones, a title I specifically picked up because of the Netflix series, for those wondering my opinions on DD season 2 and Luke Cage. I thought DD started strong but ultimately went off track around the half-way mark and was overly depressing and Luke Cage was average if not a little higher.
I know I'm cheating a little with this image but... I also don't care
Writing this comic is Brian Michael Bendis, who’s writing Spider-man which somehow I’m still reading and Civil War II, which was utter utter utter utter sh*t (see my recent editorial). So yeah, Bendis is hit and miss with me and mostly miss but the was the one responsible for the interpretation of Jessica Jones the Netflix series was adapted from so maybe he’s struck again, let’s take a look.