I’m a little late getting to this book, but I think I can be forgiven seeing as how this installment of Hugh Howey’s dystopian series – set in the desert wastes of what used to be Colorado – came out more than eight years after I reviewed the first one. (To be fair, Howey’s been
“…she encouraged us to remember one thing, that no matter how shitty our hardscrabble lives seemed……some poor bastards always had it worse.” Keep reading for a review of Saga #65. Warning, spoilers below. I’ll avoid the biggest reveals though. You can’t always distill an issue of Saga down to a single theme, but for this
Directed by Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, a world inhabited by anthropomorphic elements of nature, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story follows Ember (Leah Lewis), a tough, quick-witted, and fiery fire elemental, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow water elemental named Wade (Mamoudou Athi) challenges her beliefs
Directed by Andy Muschietti, The Flash follows Barry Allen who uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod (Michael Shannon) has returned and threatens
“…you really need to get over yourself.” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 4, issue #5. Warning, some pretty significant spoilers below. This issue was a heck of a chance for Dike Ruan and Giovanna Niro to show off their skills. The fight in the arena, with increasingly horrific monsters springing up
Directed by Steven Caple Jr, Transformers Rise of the Beasts follows Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and the Autobots who take on their biggest challenge yet when they detect the signal of an ancient Cybertronian artifact with the ability to return them to their homeworld of Cybertron. They find out they aren’t the only ones searching
Directed by Rob Savage and based on the short story by Stephen King, The Boogeyman follows the story of high school student Sadie Harper (Sophie Thatcher) and her little sister Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair), who are still reeling from the recent death of their mother. Devastated by his own pain, their father Will (Chris Messina),
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse takes place one year after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is unexpectedly approached by his love interest Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) to complete a mission to save every universe of Spider-People from the Spot (Jason Schwartzman), who
It’s springtime, politics are still an absolute dumpster fire, and several world leaders are using the version of diplomacy best summed up as “Oh Yeah? Come Over HERE And Say That.” Time for some more escapism via a thirty-year-old sci-fi fantasy epic. The Orpheus Machine is the final book in Ray Aldridge’s Emancipator trilogy. And