The eighth season of Stargate SG-1 just
premiered. What do you think?
Author Archives: W. Blaine Dowler
Babylon 5 Review – “The Wheel of Fire” (Season Five)
Now this is the way to end a series.
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Weekly Comic Discussion
There’s a whole lot shipping out this
week, although American markets won’t get things
until tomorrow thanks to the July 4 weekend.
(They’ll ship today in Canada, but I doubt I can get
away from work while the comic shop I buy from is
open today.) Items worth noting this week include
Exiles #49, Fantastic Four #515,
Supreme Power #11, and Ultimate
Spider-Man #62. These are the single issues I’m
picking up, while other available single issues
include Powerless #1 and Guardians
#1. Trade paperbacks include Marvel Age
Fantastic Four Vol. 1 and Marvel Age
Spider-Man Vol. 2 from Marvel, and Green
Lantern / Green Arrow Vol. 2 from DC. There’s a
considerable amount of other interesting materials
from other companies, too. It’s a good week for
comics.
10 Disc Matrix DVD set
is writes, According to Digital Spy The Matrix trilogy will be release in time for Christmas with ten discs. This may just be the all-encompassing set I’ve been looking for. The set will include the first two movies, movie 3 extended edition with an extra 55 minutes of footage, the Animatrix, and many discs full of special features… Wow. If I felt the sequels were worth owning, I’d be picking this up.
Website migrations
Since my University of Alberta web space can vanish
at any moment, I needed a new home for my stuff.
Dave kindly set me up with some Bureau 42 space, so
now my list of upcoming reviews can be found here,
my list of all 42 point reviews ever posted to Bureau
42 can be found here,
and my web listings of my DVD collection can be found
here.
Review requests are still accepted via [email protected].
This Week’s DVD Picks
These are the DVDs that caught my eye for a July 6
release, with genre and non-genre clearly
distinguished.
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Chuck Austen leaves Marvel
Details are still sketchy, but the writer of such
Marvel comics as this little
gem won’t be at Marvel for long. His last issue
for the forseeable future ships this fall. His
current assignment is on the adjectiveless
X-Men title. He’s also written for
Avengers, Exiles, Uncanny
X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, War
Machine, and probably a few others I don’t
recall at the moment.
Free Comic Day Tomorrow
Many comic book shops are participating in Free Comic Book Day tomorrow. It’s simple; show up, and get free comics. Note that the comics are free to customers, but not to retailers. Knowing that, I tend to feel obligated to buy something from them while I’m there to help recoup the costs.
Movie Review – “Spider-Man 2”
Does anyone who reads this site actually need an
introduction to this article? I’ve tried to keep the
review spoiler-free, but there are comments that will
spoil things for some people, especially if they can
recognize certain comic book moments based on the
issue numbers they happened in.
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Weekly Comics Discussion
This week’s list includes new issues of Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four.