The two most recent episodes of Strange New Worlds include a quirky comedy and a riff on an old philosophical question, one better explored in a classic story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review– “Memento Mori”
Strange New Worlds serves up some military SF this week, keeps the enemies in the shadows, and delivers the strongest episode thus far.
Thor returns with Love and Thunder!
Marvel’s next entry in the MCU brings back Thor, Valkyrie, and Thor… And a few other gods….
Star Trek Strange New Worlds Review: “Ghosts of Illyeria”
This week features a more-or-less standalone episode that draws on Trek lore. Pike and Spock try to unravel the mysteries of the Ontario Place pods an abandoned alien colony, while the rest of the Away Team returns carrying a strange illness. Curiously, it does not affect Number One– a character Roddenberry intended to be mysterious.
What secrets will we uncover?
Novel Review: Sea of Tranquility
No star burns forever.
Emily St. John Mandel has always played with genre. The post-apocalyptic Station Eleven won accolades in both literary and SF circles, while Glass Hotel, a novel about a Ponzi Scheme, brushed against the edges of SF and Fantasy.
Some of Glass Hotel‘s characters reappear in her most recent novel, while the ghosts of Station Eleven haunt the book. It’s a time-travel story, set in pasts, presents, and futures.
She-Hulk Trailer!
The She-Hulk finally joins the MCU this coming August. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will definitely have a comic tone as it follows the adventures of Jennifer Walters, superhero and public face of her firm’s metahuman law division.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review: “Children of the Comet”
The second episode features both character development, story arc content, and a contained SF adventure. If this is the default format of the series it’s certainly enjoyable. It varies, however, from what many fans expected.
Free Comic Book Day, 2022…
…looked like this in my area:
Did anyone make it out, masked, costumed, or otherwise? And what did you make of this year’s offerings?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Review: “Strange New Worlds”
Star Trek returns to episodic television, with an established crew and a contemporary sensibility. Is it the breakthrough for which Trekkers have been waiting?
Neal Adams, R.I.P.
Neal Adams, the influential artist who worked for Marvel and DC (also Archie, Charlton, and Warren), drew some of the most memorable covers in comics history, co-created Manbat, John Stewart, and Ra’s al Ghul, reshaped Batman, and fought for comic creators’ rights, has died at 80.
Below is an interview from 2020.