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llyzabeth

aka Elizabeth Wallace. Full-time graphic designer, part-time book reviewer and violinist. Slightly weird, usually nice, occasionally grumpy, always preoccupied.

The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

It’s officially a tradition: for the past three years I managed to watch all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts. Mostly because, hey, short. (Come on, you can dominate a whole category in three hours!) But they’re never boring. Depressing as hell sometimes, but never boring. It’s not a comfortable three hours, but it’s always interesting. Click

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Review – Transformers Lost Light #15

Remember how I said a couple weeks ago that I’d gotten spoiled and greedy because we had two Lost Light issues in a month and now I didn’t want to wait 30 days for the next issue? Well it’s been two weeks and we just got a new issue. So now I’m really spoiled and

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Binary System Podcast #115 – The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The planets finally aligned (…took them long enough. Get it together, planets…) and Binary System Podcast was able to get Elizabeth, Kathryn, Nathan, and Jada together at the same time to talk about this year’s Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts. Spoiler warnings for

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(Spoiler-free) Review – Robert Kirkman’s Oblivion Song #1 from Image Comics

Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead may have been a little underwhelmed by the latest season (lots of telling, not enough showing) but Robert Kirkman’s fans certainly believe it’s the fault of the interpretation, not the source material. So die-hard fans and casual viewers alike should be happy with Kirkman’s newest series due out this

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Review – Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

I actually read this book right after Ursula Vernon won the Hugo for her story “The Tomato Thief” but I hadn’t had a chance to review it (“hadn’t had a chance” should be read as “didn’t get organized and stop procrastinating long enough” but I think most people assumed that was the case.) I didn’t

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Review – Transformers Lost Light #14

After only a two-week wait we got another issue of Lost Light! I should be grateful! I know! But now we have to wait another month to find out what happens after THIS issue!  (See, this is what happens when you spoil us. We get greedy.) See below for a spoiler-free review of Lost Light

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Binary System Podcast – Oscar Nominations Fan Art

As one-half of the podcast is on the road this week we decided to have another fan-art gallery as this week’s “episode.” And since we’re in the middle of playing catch up with Oscar-nominated movies, we’ll showcase some art that’s inspired by the movies we’ve actually seen.

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Review – Transformers Lost Light #13

“Now kneel, before I dispose of this disposable.” “I know you won’t believe me, but I was going to kneel anyway. Makes it easier to aim.” James Roberts and Alex Milne team up for an issue where we see what happens when the Lost Light crew is locked inside a small ship for way too

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