It's time to take another look at old episodes of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Friday, 24 April 2015
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 episodes 16-18 review
So, it's every series counting down to its finale now, so let's take a look at a few new episodes of Marvel's Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Gotham episodes 19-20 review - Beasts of Prey/Under the Knife
As Gotham paves it's way to its finale, let's take a look at how the first 2 of its final 4 episodes begin to put the pieces in place
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
#19 The Rise of Arsenal
Oh boy, more of the aftermath of cry for justice. Help!
So, whilst
the fall of Green Arrow has its problems, hence its spot amongst my rage
reviews, the critical consensus despises the Rise of Arsenal.
Let’s get
one thing out the way. Everything that happened to Roy in Cry for Justice and also
in this follow-up story, was editorially mandated. The editors had the place
they wanted characters to go and it was up to the writers to make sure they got
there, no matter how little sense it made. Editorial control of stories is
something that has plagued comics in recent years. JT Krul is a decent writer but when editors try and force the writers to write their stories, it nearly always
results in cr*p. One More Day, Countdown to Final Crisis, Amazons Attack and
others are awful stories because of editorial control above anything else.
Editors do
need to have some control over stories to keep the characters consistent
through multiple titles and to check for errors. They should not be forcing
their direction for the characters on the writers.
Safe to say,
Cry for Justice, whilst selling decent numbers did not settle well with people,
hence the need for follow-up titles to ensure a plan was there (yeah… right) the
plan which eventually lead to Deathstroke’s Titans book, a story I refuse to
read owing to the fact that in their first issue (in fact I think it was a
one-shot) Deathstroke unceremoniously killed off Ryan Choi, the Atom.
But I
digress, we’re here to talk about Roy Harper, AKA Red Arrow. So in cry for
Justice he lost his arm, and his daughter, and of course there have to be repercussions.
But, *sighs* let’s dig into The Rise of Arsenal and see how they screw it all
up
Saturday, 18 April 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Guilty Pleasures #14 - Skyfall
Ah, James
Bond, an icon of action, suspense and damsels in distress, and to be honest,
despite my film preferences, 007 was never really something I grew attached to
like I have with superheroes. But my curiosity piqued with Skyfall. Due to not
booking a ticket online, I never saw it in the Cinema, but I was quick to get a
DVD copy.
Production
involved in this film looks quite complicated. MGM, the producers of the films
was undergoing financial troubles and the project, which had started just after
the release of Quantum of Solice, was suspended. During the suspension, the
original writer of the story, Peter Morgan departed leaving Neal Purvis, Robert
Wade and John Logan to finish it off. In fact filming didn’t begin until
November 2011.
These delays
didn’t hamper the success of the film. Made over a billion dollars world-wide, the highest of any Bond film, on your average blockbuster budget ($150-200m) and getting praised by most
critics. However, I stand by this as a Guilty Pleasure because despite all
this, the story has some pretty big flaws.
Before I
begin the review, I will say this. I have not watched any other of Daniel
Craig’s Bond movies, in fact this is the only Bond movie I’ve watched unless
it’s a few bits I’ve seen on television. I am not reviewing this as a 50th
Anniversary for Bond, I’m watching it as a movie and it will stand or fall on
its own merits. With that out of the
way, let’s take a look.
Sunday, 12 April 2015
4 issue test #5 - S.H.I.E.L.D.
“Inspired by
the hit TV series” Marvel’s SHIELD comic follows the outings of Agent Coulson
and his crew of SHIELD agents in the much bigger Marvel Universe than the cinematic
one. Is this series worth picking up? Let’s take a look at the first 4 issues
and find out
Friday, 10 April 2015
TV Retrospective: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 episodes 4-6 review
We're barely a week off the last one, but it's time once again to take a look at the next set of episodes of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
#18 The Fall of Green Arrow
Bad stories
spawn bad follow-ups. So here we are, this month I’ll be dealing with the two
follow-up stories of Justice League: Cry for Justice (and Superboy #0, man I'm doing a lot of comics this month). And oh man, do the both suck. We’ll be
tackling the story of the fate of Green Arrow first, because it’s the better of
the two. Not saying it’s any good, it isn’t, but…
So after the
events of Cry for Justice, a lot was up in the air about the fate of Green
Arrow (Oliver Queen and Red Arrow (Roy Harper) the two who had been most affected by the book. The
concluding stories from the Green Arrow book (which was relaunched shortly
afterwards under the “Brightest Day” moniker) and the one-shot Justice League:
Rise and Fall special dealt with Green Arrow’s fate, setting up he’d be in the
relaunched title.
J T Krul was
the writer, the same guy who’s responsible for making the Teen Titans (before
Scott Lobdell decided to sh*t all over them with the relaunch) good again after
the awful run of Felcia D Henderson. What I’m saying is JT Krul is usually a
good writer. But anything related to Cry for Justice turns to sh*t, so let’s
see exactly what we have here.
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Friday, 3 April 2015
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Episodes 11-15 review
With March being used for Spider-man Month, and hoping to minimise my workload, we didn't look at once recurring series during that time. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returned in March and has run for 5 episodes so far since its return. This show has not gone on break since it started. So let's revisit our old friends and find out what's happened in the aftermath of the amazing mid-season finale.
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Rage Issues Special: ?????????
I have
stumbled upon something truly awful here, haven’t I? I went to http://awholenewworldofarronredbeard.weebly.com (I was searching for song lyrics, got
lost somewhere) a site which hosts a collection of ‘fanfic’ series. Unlike
traditional fanfics, this uses characters from DC, Marvel and some other
properties but holds no delusion that it’s cannon to any particular show or
in-comics, in fact, it’s part of its own universe.
So what
makes this story so bad. Let’s dig into the opening 3-parter and find out.