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 …

So I Finally Saw Birds of Prey

After I did three posts that were basically a wish list for superhero films, I found myself hungry for some new superheros. But I’d seen every superhero movie that has come out in the last decade except for Bloodshot, and there is absolutely no way in hell I’m paying 19.99 to watch that movie. There …

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 …

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 …

Tossing a Coin to the Witcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbS7O9qIXE Let's be honest, this song is mad catchy. If you haven’t read last week’s post, where I tear into the first three episodes of The Witcher, then...well, actually, you know the context for this week’s post. I did not enjoy the first three episodes of The Witcher. At all. Which, from what I’m seeing …

The Witcher is…absolutely a show I’ve seen.

So the hot new Genre show in streaming right now is...well, let’s be real, it’s The Mandalorian, but I haven’t gotten around to subscribing to Disney+ yet. For me the big Genre show I’ve been excited about for months is...well, actually, it was Season 4 of The Expanse. However, Netflix’s The Witcher is definitely the …

Batwoman has flaws, but I can’t wait for more

So with everything going on for me in October, I totally forgot the Arrowverse resumed, and have been frantically catching up. Since NaNoWriMo started, I’m probably going to remain a bit behind, but I’m definitely going to be pushing to get caught up. Being sick Friday gave me a great chance to dig into one …

HBO’s Watchmen Starts Promising, but it’s Hard to Pin Down

If you’ve been following this blog for a bit, you know I’m a big fan of anything involving superheroes. (Yes, those are all different links). I haven’t gotten out to see Joker yet, although it’s definitely on my to-do list, but then I remembered that Joker wasn’t the only superhero property to get an adaptation …