Star Wars Rebels Season 2 episodes 10-11 review - A Princess on Lothal/The Protector of Concord Dawn

The Flash Season 2 episodes 10-11 review - Potential Energy/The Reverse Flash Returns

Warning: This review has many tangents and rants, spoilers for the Flash Annual #3 and Batman Beyond (And that episode of JLU that was a Batman Beyond ep)

Also, sorry this is late, but I pretty much exhausted myself with a 4 issue test review coming up.

4 Issue Test #18 - Uncanny Avengers

Now if there’s one facet of the Marvel Universe they’ve expanded since Secret Wars, it’s the Avengers, there are 6 different Avengers titles out there, each with a unique roster. Those titles are: All New All Different Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, New Avengers, The Ultimates, Squadron Supreme and A-Force. I’m going to be looking at Uncanny Avengers and All New All Different Avengers. I’m picking up more than enough Marvel titles for this to suffice.

So, I suppose I’d better mention the cast of this book. Steve Rogers: Former Captain America, he’s not an active hero in this book. The Human Torch, former member of the Fantastic 4, but with the Richards family no longer present thanks to Secret Wars and Ben Grimm chumming up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, he’s in this title. Filling our quota for mutants (the Uncanny Avengers aka the Unity Division was initially a route to peace between mutants and humans) we have the power absorber Rogue and the merc with the mouth Deadpool. In the magic-users’ category, we have Doctor Voodoo. I don’t know who he is. In the Inhumans category we have Synapse, I have no f*cking clue who she is and Quicksilver, who was retconned into being an inhuman to screw over Fox.

Before we begin in earnest, I think it also fair to look at Uncanny Avengers Annual #1. I’ll be brief, it’s rare that a series will get an issue this early in its run. But there’s a reason for it here: it’s a marketing gimmick to get people interested in the Scarlet Witch comic. Bear in mind, Scarlet Witch is not a member of the Uncanny Avengers. In fact this story centres around magic users and barely features them. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS! With that said, let’s dig into the real content.

Legends of Tomorrow Episode 1 Review - Pilot (part 1)

Are you ready for the first Comic book super team? Well, unless you think the Secret Warriors are fully formed on S.H.I.E.L.D. in which case I hate to disillusion you because it isn't yet. Let's take a look at Legends of Tomorrow

Agent Carter Season 2 Episodes 1-2 review - The Lady in the Lake/A View in the Dark

Marvel's Agent Carter may not have been a smash hit in the ratings, but someone has faith in it and it's back for a second season. What will it deliver, well lets take a look at its first 2 episodes

4 issue Test #17 - Doctor Strange

Note: if you’re wondering why I delayed this review a week, the answer is simple. I received this issue later than I’d planned so didn’t know if the review would be done in time.

Doctor Strange, sorcerer supreme of the Marvel Universe and getting his own film in the latter half of the year starring Benedict Cumberbatch. I loved the Doctor Strange animated movie, probably one of the best of Marvel’s animation and on par with a good DC one.

But I’m not reviewing either of those, I’m here to review the comic, written by Jason Aaron, who handles the Star Wars book, so he’s set a reasonably high bar, can he surpass it, let’s take a look.

Guilty Pleasures #25 - Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

It’s time once again to look at a Doctor Who Christmas Special. It’s another one I actually enjoyed, hence it being a Guilty Pleasure.

Before we get into the review. Let’s talk about River Song. I think she’s an OK character, the idea of someone meeting the Doctor but in a different order to him remembering it was interesting. The issues come with her origin and how that ties with the romantic relationship between her and the Doctor

You see (and yes, we’re going into spoilers here) River Song is the daughter of Amy and Rory Williams (and yes they’re married so they’re called Williams, doesn’t matter what the Doctor says) who was conceived in a TARDIS in flight. Lots of bullsh*t happens (see my review of the Wedding of River Song for the worst of it) and they end up being married in an aborted timeline which somehow makes them married in this timeline too. It’s kinda creepy when you think about it.

So let’s dive into the swansong of the Doctor and River Song ‘The Husbands of River Song’

#32 Doctor Who - Kill the Moon

Thought this was going to be a 4 issue test of Doctor Strange? Well unfortunately #4 arrived later than I'd anticipated and I didn't know if I'd get it done in time. This one has been ready to go for a while, so dive into my re-review of Doctor Who - Kill the Moon

It’s January, so it’s time to look at 2 Doctor Who episodes. The first might be familiar to long term fans of this blog because I reviewed it a year ago. The review consisted of me mostly laughing at a particular plot point which we’ll get to

So why this episode? Well, I’ve given the episode time to stir in my mind a bit, I’ve read and seen other reviews of the episode and there’s a hell of a lot more wrong with it than just the bullsh*t I was laughing at in my original review.

So, how much worse is it than I remember? It’s bad, really, really bad. Let’s take a look

Netflix Retrospective: Jessica Jones episodes 10-13 review

And our retrospective of Jessica Jones draws to a close, does the series end a high? Well, let's take a look

4 Issue Test #16 - Deadpool

Marvel’s universe has changed, its entire line is being slowly relaunched (I know, this is about the 10^th time now) and I figured it’s time for me to properly embrace the Marvel line and take a look at a few of their new series. And by a few we’ll be looking at titles for 4 of the next 5 months.

We start with the Merc with the mouth himself, Deadpool. Created as in intentional ripoff of Teen Titan’s Deathstroke. Wade Wilson was eventually differentiated from Slade with a few elements of character and back story. He was a part of the Weapon X programme, the same scheme that gave Wolverine his powers and was given regenerative powers from it. The problem is he had cancer and the treatment regenerates his cancer as well as his normal cells.

Netflix Retrospective: Jessica Jones episodes 7-9 review