Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 12:29AM 
If you've been reading Young Allies (reviewed here) or her backup features in Captain America, you may well be asking yourself "Who is this Nomad person and why should I care?" Created by the same team that brought you Young Allies, Nomad: Girl Without A World will answer that for you.
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 12:53AM 
Yes, he has horns.This book is amazing. Why am I hearing no press on it? None. A book featuring heroes who are teenagers that is not secretly about Teen Angst™ or, indeed, High School in any form? Wow. Where they're actually competent and not emotionally overwrought or dysfunctional? Double wow. More to the point, it's a new comic and a new superhero team that's just plain good and doesn't feel like a contrived copy of some other team book.
In fact, dirty little secret, it doesn't come off as a team book at all - it comes off as a team-up.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 11:56PM 
Not exactly Rob Liefeld Supergirl, is she? Thank God.Once upon a time DC Comics realized that little girls liked Supergirl stuff, but they didn't have a single Supergirl comic or graphic novel safe and suitable for little girls. So they created one. Precisely one. And then they stopped.
(Never mind that Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam survived two mediocre years for no particularly good reason.)
This is that graphic novel.
Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin from an alternate dimension, randomly gets stuck on Earth, Clark pops some glasses on her and sends her to school (his answer to everything) and cue middle school adventures. The comic is obviously aimed at girls just young enough that middle school adventures sounds awesome - that is, kids who are too young to have to endure the hell that is middle school.
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 11:51PM 
On a very bad day, this is what she does with office supplies.Tom Cruise did not play the lead role in Salt. Good show there!
Salt is a no-frills, no awesome gadgets, espionage is brutal and hard and will probably destroy you sort of movie. Tom Cruise raditating "Why yes, I am that good, I am the great Tom Cruise" would have both undermined it and made the movie an insufferable paean to himself. So yes, even though Angelina Jolie is not my favorite actress, as far as I'm concerned, the movie could only win from the switch.
Salt is fairly well done and relatively original as far as spy action movies go. It has the added novelty value of being a movie about a female spy with no seduction or supposedly hot undercover scenes in it, which is always refreshing. It is also massively a depressing movie. I don't consider it a spoiler to say... no, the movie did not end in nuclear war. And that's the only thing happy about this movie.
Beyond this point lie spoilers.
movies, xxpositive in movie reviews Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 11:57PM 
Our first view of the Yang family women. They look so harmless!Now, this is a comic that deserves more press. It's still on the stands in comic shops everywhere, so it isn't too late for you to start at the beginning without bothering with back issue bins. Sure there have been a few articles about it online, but it needs all the help it can get because, quite frankly... the comic is from Dynamite. But wait! Don't hit that back button! It doesn't exactly fit the brand image, and that's a good thing.
Widow Warriors is based on the Chinese legend of the widow warriors of the Yang family.
