Category: Reviews

Review – Transformers Lost Light #17

So between last issue and this issue we found out that the Unicron event this summer will be the end of Lost Light, along with every other Transformers storyline at IDW. Transformers will continue, IDW still has the license, but all the current stories will wrap up and there will be a full reboot and I’M

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Review: The Night Dahlia

R.S. Belcher returns to his popular urban fantasy world with The Night Dahlia, the latest adventure of peerless (and reckless) modern-day wizard, Laytham Ballard. Remember how the book Nightwise ended with Laytham having bartered three years of his life to the Devil? It’s a few years later and things have gotten, if possible, even worse. The former member

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Review: Rampage

Rampage is the newest creature feature to hit theaters. Loosely based on the video game of the same name, the movie stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson who teams up with a giant albino gorilla that turns into a raging monster of enormous size following rogue science experiments. It’s a fun popcorn flick with not much

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Review: Stone Mad – A Karen Memory Adventure

Elizabeth Bear returned this March to the main character from Karen Memory with a brand new novella. Click the jump to learn about a story of spiritualists, mad science, a misplaced mine goblin, and a little of what happens after “and they lived happily ever after.”

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2018 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

It’s that time again, the finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced! I’ve only read four of the 114 nominees this year so far, so I have quite a bit of catching up to do… This will be the same format as last year: between now and when the winners are announced on

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Review: The Tangled Lands

In 2010, authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell released two intertwined novellas, “The Alchemist” and “The Executioness”. This February, Saga Press re-released both of those novellas along with two brand new stories in the collection The Tangled Lands.  All four of these stories are set in the city of Khaim, last remnant of a legendary

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Review – Marvel Legacy Companion

In an effort to give a little love to the entire Marvel Universe, and not just the ones that’ve recently had a movie or Netflix show, Marvel is releasing the Marvel Legacy Companion. Featuring five titles that the casual Marvel fan might not be familiar with (and that the dedicated Marvel fan might want more

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Review: Ready Player One

When it comes to huge popcorn movies, Steven Spielberg is the master. Basically creating the “summer blockbuster” with his 1975 hit Jaws, thus followed a film legacy of epic proportions full of pop icons, cinematic masterpieces, and game-changing special effects. When it was announced that he would be directing Ready Player One, based on the

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Review: Isle of Dogs

It’s a dystopian future where dogs have been quarantined on a remote island. It features a Japanese cast speaking their native langue. Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum play dogs. It’s stop motion. It features all the hipster tones/music you’d expect: It must be time for another original film from Wes Anderson. Isle of Dogsis written

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