Bettie Page Vol. 1
Colton Worley and David Avallone
8.0
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via Edelweiss "She's more modest than Ms. Blaise, but peels more than Ms. Emma. She out-vamps...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Shazam! (2019) in Movies
May 14, 2019 (Updated Dec 15, 2019)
I left feeling pretty positive about the whole goofy experience.
As with most DC material, the film starts on a fairly dark note, introducing us to a young Dr Sivana (a truly old school super villain, dating all the way back to the late 30s).
After a bit of back story as to why he gets all villainy, the movie wastes no time introducing us to Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and the rest of his foster family, and the movie succeeds in making all of the younger characters likable.
After a bit of comic book magic, we're eventually acquainted with the true power of Shazam!
Zachary Levi absolutely shines as he clearly relishes in playing this goofy, excitable teenager trapped in the body of a God. He bounces back and forth with Jack Dylan Grazer pretty well, and for the most part the relentless stream of jokes land nicely.
The film starts to waiver slightly towards the end, as the story hurtles towards a standard comic book movie CGI showdown, with a by the numbers comic book movie performance from Mark Strong, and some sketchy CGI cloud monsters, but it's hard not to grin with the surprise introduction of the Shazam! family (something I would surely expect from a sequel).
Shazam! also struggles at times to balance it's humour with it's more serious beats, but for the most part is an enjoyable origin story that the whole family can enjoy.
Airboy
Greg Hinkle and James Robinson
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"We live in a world where meta-comics putting their creators at the forefront of stories is about as...
Moira Buffini: Plays 2: Dinner; Dying for it; A Vampire Story; Welcome to Thebes; Handbagged
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Dinner: "A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with...
Madgermanes
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‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called...
East Germany Mozambicans Historical Fiction
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Above the Timberline in Books
May 22, 2019
If it was just the text, it would be a very lackluster book. There are aspects of the story that are unexplained, and aspects that are explained only by the accompanying paintings. It's really the paintings that make this book unique. It's almost like - an adult picture book, I suppose. It actually reads more like someone found the series of paintings and constructed a story to support what they imagined was happening in the pictures.
Regardless, it's a unique experience. Manchess is a remarkable artist. The paintings are gorgeous, and the book does that thing where the text and art play around each other on the page, creating unique formatting that helps tell the story on its own, like when a full two-page spread of a painting has two lines of text to emphasize them.
Fascinating, beautiful book.
Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated The Weekly Planet in Podcasts
Jan 11, 2018
365Flicks (235 KP) rated Weird Science DC Comics Podcast in Podcasts
Nov 19, 2019
Split up into easily manageable sections of books and responding to a plethora of Emails from their devoted fans known as the get fresh crew.
You won’t find a more honest and open forum podcast I guarantee it. They call it as they see it warts and all
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol 1: The Crucible
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack
8.4
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On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a...
The Stolen White Elephant
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'PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW!' From the father of American literature,...