Burnham and associates face a classic Trek dilemma, and a captive captain encounters a classic Trek character.
“Here’s Mudd in your eye!”
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October Reviews: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
“We need 50% less kink!”
This weekend’s October Countdown takes us away from horror, as we consider two recent films of interest to genre aficionados. Blade Runner 2049 is the big SF release this October (reviewed by W. Blaine), but Professor Marston and the Wonder Women also found its way into theatres.
The fictionalized biopic gives us the story– or, at least, a story– behind Wonder Woman, her creator, and his wives.
Graphic Novel Review: The Customer is Always Wrong
What’s a girl got to do to get some respect around here? Stick a needle in her arm?
I discovered Mimi Pond’s comix in National Lampoon, back in the early 80s. The magazine had hopelessly passed its glory days by then; Pond was one of the reasons to keep reading. I lost track of her work after the 80s, though I was aware she wrote the first full-length episode of The Simpsons1.
I stumbled over her stuff again recently. Published at the end of summer, 2017, The Customer is Always Wrong is the second in a series of semi-autobiographical memoirs. Its justification for being reviewed here is that it’s a graphic novel. Otherwise, it’s somewhat removed from our usual fare. Mind you, Madge’s self-medicated supporting cast probably see aliens and monsters all the time.
Star Trek: Discovery: “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry”
Discovery isn’t treading water, bear in mind, but many fans remain uncertain whether it will make the grade.
The latest episode features some familiar SF concepts, personality clashes among both humans and Klingons, and a glimpse of the show’s potential.
October Reviews: XX
“The devil gets blamed for a lot of stuff he didn’t have nothing to do with.”
October has fallen again and, once more, the Bureau digs up its ghostly offerings for night-time viewing. We’ll have horrors past and present up for review. Along with the shambling dead and the body snatchers, the horrors lurking behind your neighbor’s white picket fence and friendly facade, and the mysterious agents holding back the hordes of hell, we’ll also examine an SF sequel more-anticipated than any recent Star Wars chapter. Our full list appears at the end of this review.
Without a doubt, the most-discussed horror films of 2017 have been It (reviewed here) and Get Out (which we will examine on Halloween night). However, much fan chatter also centered ’round the horror anthology XX— and that’s where this year’s October Reviews begin.
The Gifted Review: “eXposed”
Marvel’s latest series doesn’t take place in their vast shared crossover universe. Instead, we have a timely television spin on the X-men. A leader of the mutant underground gets captured, while a man who helps prosecute mutants learns his children carry the X-factor gene.
Star Trek: Discovery Review: “Context is for Kings”
Star Trek: Discovery premiered last week with “Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars.” With the captain [spoiler]dead and our chief protagonist serving a life sentence[/spoiler], the show takes an unexpected route to an expected destination: the U.S.S. Discovery.
Some spoilers follow.
Inhumans Review: “Behold… The Inhumans” / “Those Who Would Destroy Us”
Many critics have been calling The Inhumans the Marvel Mainstream Media Universe’s first real failure, even before its first episode toured select IMAX theatres. Now that it has made its small-screen debut, it’s time to discuss whether Lockjaw and his pals will fetch a television audience.
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This is my video of the ComiCon local to me, which occurred this weekend. As a bonus, the cosplayer in the introduction turns it into a Countdown to Halloween video as well.
Below: the International Mars Society Convention, some NASA news, and where to watch Star Trek: Discovery
Summer’s End Review: The Dunwich Horror (1970)
“Why don’t you take this copy of The Necronomicon and return it to the library?”–Professor Armitage
We have one final Summer Weekend Review for 2017: the notoriously trippy 1970 adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft tale.
The equinox is here.
We begin our October countdown in two weeks.