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Doctor Who Series 9: the Recap
What a season. Doctor Who has had its ups and downs, pluses and minuses, but when it pulls through, it really pulls through. Rather than coyly caging my opinion of this season, particularly the finale, I’m just going to say … Continue reading
Legendary: Dark City Expansion
As fun as the base game of Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is, from the start there was always room for additions and improvements. Those upgrades have come in six expansions since Legendary’s creation in 2012, the most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
Tagged Angel, Apocalypse, Bishop, Blade, Board Game, Bribe, Cable, Colussus, Daredevil, Dark City, Domino, Elektra, Forge, Gaming, Ghost Rider, Hero, Iceman, Iron Fist, Jean Grey, Kingpin, Legendary, Marvel, Marvel Knight, Mastermind, Mephisto, Mr. Sinister, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Punisher, S.H.I.E.L.D., Scheme, Stryfe, Superhero, Teleport, Upper Deck, Versatile, Villain, Wolverine, X-Force, x-men
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Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
If you’re looking for gifts for your avid gamer friends or family this Christmas, or just interested in adding something to your own collection of tabletop games, I can’t recommend a better choice than Upper Deck’s Legendary: Marvel. Legendary is … Continue reading
Posted in Board Games, Gaming, Reviews, Superhero
Tagged Black Widow, Board Game, Captain America, Cyclops, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Emma Frost, Gambit, Gaming, Hawkeye, Hero, Hulk, Iron Man, Legendary, Loki, Magneto, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Mastermind, Nick Fury, Red Skull, Rogue, S.H.I.E.L.D., Scheme, Spiderman, Storm, Superhero, TableTop, Thor, Upper Deck, Villain, Wolverine
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Captain America: Brother Against Brother
The United States Civil War is often described as being a conflict wherein brother fought brother. It’s a poetic description, but as accurate as only poetry can be. It is both literally and metaphorically true. Marvel Comics’ Civil War event, a … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fiction, Superhero
Tagged Captain America: Civil War, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Civil War
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WARCRAFT Movie Trailer Released
At BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard Entertainment announced that a movie based on their Warcraft series of games was in production. Today, they released the first trailer for the film.
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Gaming, News, Reviews, Video Games
Tagged CGI, Chain Mail, Green Screen, Human, Movie Trailer, Movies, Orc, Plate Armor, Stormwind, The Beginning, Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, World of Warcraft
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Star Trek Returns to the Smaller Screen
This has been a strange few days. First, Van Helsing is making a comeback that makes very little sense. Then, His Dark Materials is rising from the grave like some stupid Hammer Horror film. And now, Star Trek is coming back to television! Seriously, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Fiction, News, Science Fiction
Tagged Babylon 5, Netflix, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, television
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Evil Narnia Returns
They say that Hollywood is running out of ideas, but this is ridiculous now. The 2007 film The Golden Compass was from the novel of the same name, written by Philip Pullman, the first in the His Dark Materials trilogy. The author … Continue reading
Van Helsing, rebooted
The 2004 film Van Helsing is apparently coming back to life, only this time on television. … And female. And … why? Vanessa Helsing, the next in a lineage of warriors who must lead mankind against a world controlled by vampires. … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, News
Tagged Film, Movies, television
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HonorCon 2015: After Action Report
THE ROYAL MANTICORAN NAVY MEMORANDUM FOR: HONORCON Third Day, Eleventh Month, Year Three Hundred and Three After Landing From: Spacer Second Class Lori Janeski, Grayson Space Navy To: –Captain (Senior Grade) Christa Brolley, GS, QBM, EM; Commanding Officer, HMS Hector … Continue reading
Saturday’s Children: Grand Prize Winner
And now for a moment of shameless self-promotion: I won! My Halloween short story, Saturday’s Children, won the Grand Prize at the Liberty Island short story contest. If you need to extend your Halloween fun for another few days, give … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Personal Posts, Plugs and Promotions
Tagged Halloween, Liberty Island, Short Story, Urban Fantasy
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Over the Garden Wall: Macabre, Weird, and Delightful
Over the Garden Wall is a lovely little gem that I’d completely forgotten about until I recently rewatched the first two chapters with friends. It’s a surreal autumny story about two brothers lost, wandering through woods filled with strange, spooky … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Reviews
Tagged cartoon, Halloween, Over the Garden Wall
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Are the Honor Harrington Books Too Feminist?
After Lori wrote her review of the Honor Harrington series, she got a comment that she had to take issue with. It wasn’t a comment here on the blog, and the person who made it isn’t a bad person, so I feel … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fiction, Science Fiction
Tagged Feminism, Honorverse, Traditionalism
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Review: The Man in the High Castle
As we know, Amazon, like Netflix, has been getting into producing their own shows. So far, Netflix has hit the jackpot, with shows like Daredevil and the continuation of Longmire. Amazon, not so much. I watched the trailer for their … Continue reading
Review: Supergirl
My name is Kara Zor-el” … and she spent 5 years on an island. No, wait, that’s Oliver Queen. My, does Greg Berlanti love that opening. Anyway, a feeling of excitement and dread followed the announcement of a Supergirl show. The … Continue reading
Honor Harrington is a Friend of Mine
I had never heard of Honor Harrington at all until just last year, when Matthew finally insisted — rather than suggest — that I read On Basilisk Station, by David Weber. Oh, sure, he might have mentioned it a time … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction
Tagged David Weber, Honor Harrington, HonorCon, The Royal Manticoran Navy
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A full Jessica Jones trailer? Really?
This is going to be creepy as Hell. …. Ahem. Anyway. Possible spoilers ahead — spoilers for the comics, anyway, not sure about the tv show. So, in Marvel Comics earlier this century, they had a Marvel “Max” line — mature … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Fiction, Science Fiction, Superhero
Tagged AKA Jessica Jones, Doctor Who, Jessica Jones, Marvel, television
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Review: Liberation
Well, we come now to book three in the I Am Margaret series, and I have to say, I’m starting to fall off the bandwagon. I know, and I’m sorry to have to say it, but there it is. Once … Continue reading
Review: The Three Most Wanted
There’s no way I could review I Am Margaret and just leave it at that. It would be thoroughly against my nature to leave the series unfinished without addressing each installment in turn. And, of course, it’s a good series, so … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Plugs and Promotions, Reviews
Tagged British, Catholic Fiction, Catholicism, Dystopia, I Am Margaret, Romance, Violence
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Review: I Am Margaret
I was asked to do a review on I Am Margaret by Corinna Turner, published by our friends at Chesterton Press.Being a good and friendly blogger, I agreed, and even though I was a bit wary at the description at … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Plugs and Promotions, Reviews
Tagged British, Catholic Fiction, Catholicism, Dystopia, Editing, I Am Margaret, Romance, Style, The Hunger Games, Violence
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Legends of DC
I still hate the title for this mid-season replacement show, but dang, it still looks so, so awesome. So, a few thoughts along the way.