Fantastic Diversity – The Fantasy Genre’s Unfortunate Implications

As part of a response to escalating racial tensions in the United States sparked by the protests stemming from the death of George Floyd, Wizards of the Coast - makers of Dungeons and Dragons - published a blog post titled “Diversity and Dungeons and Dragons.” Given how huge DnD has become in the past few …

You Should Be Reading Marko Kloos

Yesterday, the second book of Marko Kloos’s Palladium Wars series was released, and in December we’ll get the seventh book of his Frontlines series. Kloos first came to my attention when he was recommended by a friend who generally dislikes military fiction, so I had to check him out. After reading all of his currently …

6 Things I want to see in the Arrowverse (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, I shared my wish list for the future of the MCU. Because I secretly want to run the world (or at least the entertainment industry), today I’m bringing you my wish list for the Arrowverse (aka: the majority of DC’s actually good live action). Side note: as for the DCEU ...I …

People Panic -or- The Problem with Prometheus isn’t *that* Scene

Part 2 of last week's post is going to go up a bit later - instead, I had to take a diversion. You know the scene. Don’t lie, you know exactly the scene I’m talking about, the most infamous scene from 2012’s execrable Prometheus. If you actually don’t know what I’m talking about or have …

3 Things I Want to See Next in the MCU

After my last post about the MCU and Arrowverse, I spent some time thinking about both properties. Okay, it was a lot of time. I really like superheroes, y’all. And given the nature of the post, I was mostly thinking of the future of both franchises. Given the fairly loose and open nature of this …

Endgame Crisis – Comparing the Two Big Crossovers

Last year, Marvel had the culmination of over a decade of movies in Avengers Endgame, a landmark event that featured heroes from multiple franchises coming together to face a threat to all of reality, a monster of incredible power known as Thanos that had already managed to wipe out half of all life in the …

2019 Roundup or I Got Sick Again, Have Some Links

I’ve not been feeling great the past couple of days. It happens. I was going to do this post at the beginning of the year, but decided to instead save it for a day just like today, when I wasn’t feeling well. So, instead of my normal post, here’s some of my favorite things I’ve …

Reality is not Dark, so Why is Realistic Fiction?

Have you heard of The Magicians? If you’ve been browsing Facebook at all lately, you probably have, since I think they’ve sunk pretty much all the marketing budget in the world into their latest advertising campaign. I’ve never watched the show or read the books, so the phrase “Fillory with Fen” has about as much …

Oh Dear Merciful Jesus, We Don’t Need a Bloodshot Movie

Just last post, I talked about how the 90’s were a dark time for comic books, a dark time full of bad writing and excessive gore. The one real good thing I can say about the 90’s is, as terrible as they were for comics, it’s an era that we escaped from, an era we …

The Expanse is Everything Good With Sci-Fi

Rise of the Skywalkers was disappointing. I saw it, and was going to do a review, but I’m two weeks behind the rest of the internet on this one. Everyone’s done their hot takes, their hot takes about the hot takes, the backlash to the hot takes, and the backlash to the backlash. We’re now …