Yearly Archives: 2013
Review: Teen Titans #20
Teen Titans attempts to break up the crumminess of the recent storyline by giving us an issue devoted to Raven’s origin. That’s all well and good, I suppose, and now is probably as good a time as any to let us know what the heck Raven is doing in this series, but it doesn’t raise the quality of the comic, and it kind of makes Raven worse than she was before. I’m fairly certain this origin sticks closely to Raven’s pre-reboot origin, but honestly? She has one messed up origin.
Teen Titans #20
The cover is a total lie. Evil Red Robin doesn’t even show up in this issue (thank God). Instead, it’s just Trigon narrating the long, complicated origin of Raven.
Comic Rating: 2.5/5 – Pretty Bad.
To an extent, I realize that my dislike of Teen Titans stems almost completely from the comic diverging from what I want to see, or what I think could be done better. Trigon is definitely one of those things, and now we can add Raven to that list as well. I’ve pretty much disliked everything we’ve seen from Trigon so far, and this issue adds even more garbage to his story. However, I’ve rather liked what we’ve seen of Raven. I like her new costume, and I kind of liked the life being built for her. But after this issue, she’s a complicated, pointless mess of a character. Oh well. She was fun while she lasted.
Pretty much nothing else happens in the rest of the issue. The origin is book-ended by short scenes with the Titans, and they don’t do much of anything. Definitely nothing about Red Robin being ‘reborn’ as the cover would indicate. This story can’t end fast enough.
New Man of Steel Trailer Focuses on General Zod
General Zod is a horrible choice for villain in a Superman movie. What’s the point of Superman being the last son of Krypton is there are a bunch more? Plus he’s just visually unappealing. Lex Luthor is such a good villain because he’s just as smart as Superman is strong. General Zod is basically just evil Superman, and we’ve already got Bizarro for that.
The new trailer for Man of Steel still looks awesome. The size and scope of this film look amazing. Unlike The Wolverine, I am definitely still excited for Man of Steel. But I definitely don’t care for Zod yet at all. Or his evil plot. But maybe the movie will make him work. We’ll see.
At any rate, enjoy the latest trailer. What do you guys and gals think of Man of Steel so far? Excited? Disinterested? Do you think anybody will ever make a good Superman movie again?
6 Thoughts on the First Season of Arrow
It’s still wild to believe that we have a real, legitimate, live action Batman TV show on the air. Granted, it stars Green Arrow, but beggars can’t be choosers. I kid, I kid. Arrow is a pretty awesome show. The previous superhero show on the CW, Smallville, was more about Superman as a teen heartthrob than Superman as Superman. So it’s simply fantastic that we have a show about a dark, gritty superhero vigilante who fights crime, deals with entertaining drama and doesn’t shy away from costumes, sidekicks and evil super-villain plots to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
You could put an eye out with that…oh
I’m not sure how to review TV shows. I reviewed the first episode of Arrow, but I have neither the time nor energy to review each and every episode. That sounds exhausting. But I’d still like to talk to you guys and gals about Arrow. So I decided that the best thing to do would be to review the entire first season as a List of Six. And here we are: 6 thoughts on the first season of Arrow.
New Wolverine Trailer Because Wolverines are in Right Now
A new trailer was released today for The Wolverine…and it looks pretty bad.
Maybe the movie will surprise us in the end, but so far it just looks pretty bad. I’m not sure I can put my finger on why, but maybe Wolverine is just over the hill. Maybe back when the X-Men movies were the best superhero movies coming out he might have stood a chance, but now he’s got to sell himself in the era of The Avengers, and he just comes up short.
Wolverine fighting a giant, robot Silver Samurai with heavy CGI does not appeal to me.
My Insane Doctor Who Theory
I didn’t particularly care for Season 7 of Doctor Who. I didn’t like that it only had done-in-one episodes and lacked the serial storyline aspects of previous seasons. I never really connected with Clara. And there just weren’t any really awesome scenes or moments. Everything seemed looser, lighter and less connected. It was entertaining, don’t get me wrong, but I felt Season 7 was subpar compared to earlier seasons.
But that’s OK, because now it’s over!
Though the adventure never ends!
The season finale aired Saturday night, and what a finale! Well, it wasn’t as amazing an episode as in seasons past, but it was still a lot of fun. And it ended with a huge, potentially show-shattering cliffhanger. Don’t you just love when season finales leave you with the sort of cliffhanger that leaves you chomping on the bit until the Fall? Yeah, me neither, but Doctor Who did it anyway.
And immediately after the episode, I had a crazy light bulb moment. I think I know what the cliffhanger implies. I have an Insane Doctor Who Theory, and I want to share it with you lot to see what you think.
Be warned, there are SPOILERS for the season finale episode. If you haven’t seen the episode, go right ahead and watch it before reading. Otherwise, you just won’t understand what the heck I’m talking about! Anyway, when you’re ready, join me after the jump for my Insane Doctor Who Theory.
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