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Hawkeye, Volume 2: Little Hits

Matt Fraction

8.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja returns to the most critically acclaimed comic of 2012, as...

Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)

P.G. Wodehouse

8.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning...

Domonique (0 KP) rated The Walking Dead: v. 1: Days Gone Bye in Books

May 12, 2018

This was awesome! I've been watching the show for years, but I never read the comic even though I knew that's what it was based on. And people kept saying how good it was, but I read so many other things that I just never had a chance to check out. But I got this free trial on Comixology and thought, why not? And let me tell you, I am hooked, I think I read this in a day and it's a comic book so it's not like it takes longs to read anyway but I found it hard to focus on other things when all I wanted to do was read this. It's exactly like the show, and of course I know this came first, but it's kind of cool to read this after watching the show to see how true they stayed to the story. I've started Volume 2 already and I'm pretty sure I'm going to finish this quickly as well. Before long, I might be caught on the comics like I am with the show.

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Britt Smith (36 KP) rated Dredd (2012) in Movies

Mar 12, 2018 (Updated Mar 12, 2018)

Dredd (2012)

2012 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.6

(37 Ratings)

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True to the comic

MaMa

Yeah.

What's not to love here? A fan of the comic, I had the chance to see the movie in 3D and it is one of the best cinema experiences ever (and the best action to date). Carl Urban does absolute justice to the character, and the movie itself does Mega-City 1 right. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor.

Also, favorite female villain of all time goes to Ma-Ma. Best put by Lena Headey when she said "I think of her like an old great white shark who is just waiting for someone bigger and stronger to show up and kill her. She's ready for it. In fact, she can't wait for it to happen. And yet no one can get the job done. She's an addict, so she's dead in that way, but that last knock just hasn't come. This big, fat, scarred shark moving through the sea and everyone flees and she's like, 'Will someone just have the balls to do it? Please?'"

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David McK (3377 KP) rated Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1 in Books

Jan 28, 2019

In large part the inspiration behind 2012's movie 'The Dark Knight Rises', what surprised me on reading this is just how faithfully that movie actually stuck to the events of this!

Oh, sure, there are differences: no Azrael or Robin (or, at least, not in his superhero mantle) in the movie, and a larger part for Catwoman/Selina Kyle, but more than just lip service is paid to the comic on which it is based: in particular, the bit about Bane's early life.

And, talking of Bane, the movie sticks an awful lot closer to him than the 1997 'Batman and Robin' version, or even the more recent Arkham series of games do.

The plot of the movie and comic should be pretty much common knowledge by now: Bane comes to Gotham, pushes Batman/Bruce Wayne to the edge and finally breaks his back in a 1-on-1 fight between the two.

In the words of Monty Python, however, 'I got better ... ' (albeit not by the end of this particular 'Knightfall' arc)