Image Comics Collects the Second Arc of Critically Acclaimed Series, The Beauty By Daniel Schwartz (Victor Valley)– If our society has made one thing clear, it is that looks are everything. From the way others treat us to how famous you can become, it is all based upon how attractive we are. Enter The Beauty. This life-changing disease will turn […]
Doctor Who Returns with the Eighth Doctor in tow thanks to Titan Comics By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Reviewer For most Whovians, the only exposure they have to the Eighth Doctor is the mediocre TV movie and the amazing “Night of the Doctor”. While his adventures have been well documented in novels and audiobooks, many fans of this Doctor have not […]
Namesake Traverses Worlds Wonderfully By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Reviewer It’s Mardi Gras time in … Hartford, Connecticut? Well, not Mardi Gras, but the party is just as big. Every seven years, the Earth aligns with the planet Ektae, which means that people and goods can freely travel between both worlds. This event is marked with a week-long party where revelers […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Speedsters, Speedsters everywhere. Once Barry received his super speed, it seems like everyone wanted to join the party. First there was Reverse Flash, then Zoom, then Jay Garrick, then Trajectory, the Rival, then Kid Flash, and finally Jessie Quick last night. Deciding that Earth-1c (Earth-1a was the original timeline and Earth-1b was Flashpoint) would […]
By Daniel Schwarz Contributing Guest Reviewer From Titan Comics comes a very welcome blast from the past. Doctor Who #1 brings Whovians back to the days of John Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor with his trusty companion Jo Grant and all of time and space to explore. After earning his TARDIS privileges back from the Time Lords, The Doctor is on Earth […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter When Gotham began in 2014, it had a rough start. With unlikable characters and a strangely evolving mob storyline, Gotham left many fans wanting for more. Come season 2, the fan’s patience with the show was rewarded. Bringing in characters such as Jerome, Hugo Strange and Azrael to wreak havoc across the city, the […]
Does Independence Day Resurgence let creativity ring? By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer When Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day was released in 1996, it put a fun and explosive twist on the classic alien invasion story. With a stellar cast, planetary destruction, and a world in peril, this blockbuster film set a higher bar for all action/sci-fi films that followed. Warning: […]
De Campi and Ordway Bring Terror to Comics the Right Way By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Recently, Virtual Reality (VR) video games took the spotlight at the E3 trade show because of their immersive experience. Imagine a video game that not only immersed the user into the fictional world, but also stole their soul from their body as well! […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Hot on the heels of the amazing first story arc of the groundbreaking series The Beauty, Jeremy Haun, Jason Hurley, and Mike Huddleston introduce fans to new characters and new corners of The Beauty universe. With agents Foster and Vaughn (who featured prominently in the first arc) nowhere in sight, fans are introduced to […]
Weavers #1 weaves a promising start for the latest series from Boom! Studios By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Many superheroes begin their careers being chosen by their powers. The Green Lantern ring chose Hal Jordan because it saw the hero in him. In another reality, the Spider Totem chose Peter Parker to be Spider-Man. In Boom! Studios new series […]
The Last Dragon Brings Love, Redemption, and Terror From Above By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Dragons, dragons, dragons. Occupying every corner of pop culture, these mythical beasts have been at the forefront of entertainment for decades. With such a strong saturation, it is difficult to find an original story that is interesting and will keep people excited and reading. […]
Welcome to the world of The Beauty By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– If you could make yourself beautiful by simply catching a disease, would you? Aside from amazing good looks, you would have mild side effects such as a slight fever, higher metabolism, and spontaneous human combustion! Welcome to the world of The Beauty. In this world […]
IDW continues their hot streak of taking existing properties into new and exciting directions with Mars Attacks: Occupation By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– When Mars Attacks hit theaters in 1996, it generated lots of laughs and became an instant cult classic. With the looks of a B-movie and an all-star cast, the Tim Burton helmed film left […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– Starsky and Hutch, Peanut butter and bananas, and Cable and Deadpool. Some pairings seem strange at first, but just appear to unexpectedly work. The most recent example of this is The Devastator’s Teen Beat and Doctor Who mashup, TARDIS Beat. With Doctor Who as the premise, Devastator parodies Teen Beat magazine with […]
The Villainous Zoom Stands Revealed… So who is he? By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter (Victor Valley)- After Tuesday’s marine-centered episode of The Flash, fans were treated to an amazing final scene in which Zoom was finally unmasked to a shocked and stunned fandom. Warning: SPOILERS BELOW! Shortly after Barry was able to defeat King Shark and get him back […]
Apes and Babes available in trade paperback this May (By Staff Reports)– From the award-winning and critically-acclaimed creator and artist Frank Cho (LIBERTY MEADOWS, ZOMBIE KING, Drawing Beautiful Women, Jungle Girl) comes APES AND BABES, available this May. A stunning collection that showcases the best of Cho’s past and present illustrations, this trade paperback displays a wide variety of artwork, […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– What is humanity? What does it mean to be human? As we continue to rely more and more on technology and the internet to communicate and exist, many people believe that we are losing small pieces of our humanity as we progress. This is the premise of the groundbreaking Image series Symmetry. […]
Review by Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– Life is precious, unless you have an endless supply of them. With an unlimited amount of reincarnations, soldiers for good and evil have been fighting each other throughout history in an endless war. As each generation wins (by killing the other side), they kill themselves and the next battle begins. In […]
Review by Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– Hot on the heels of the captivating first issue, Symmetry #2 explores the world after a solar flare has severed several people from the hive mind and destroyed their robotic workers. Having spent their entire life connected to an AI linked to a hive mind and with robots doing all of […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter This week, the CW will debut their newest superhero drama set in the Arrowverse, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. While some information about this new project has been leaked, most of this show remains shrouded in mystery. The show is based upon time-traveler Rip Hunter assembling a team of heroes, villains, and everything in between […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– There have been many stories in comics and movies that involve the bonding of a boy and his dragon. That said, there are none others that I can recall taking place in depression-era New York City. Following the death of his grandfather, the primary protagonist (the young Enrico Savarese) faces the daunting […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter (Victor Valley)– Did that just happen!? There are several shows that are defined by the most shocking and abrupt moments that change the direction of the narrative and leave the series changed afterwards. 2015 had no shortage of these moments. From Central City to the Seven Kingdoms, shock and awe filled the screens of […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter (Victor Valley)– Zoom is coming. From the time the initial trailer aired at Comic Con with this stirring tagline, fan anticipation has grown and speculation has run wild. Who is the man (or beast) behind the black suited supervillain? After the absolute beating that he put on Barry a few weeks ago, he has […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– There is an old saying: “The cure is worse than the disease”. This has never been more true than in The Beauty #5. Still on the run, agents Foster and Vaughn continue their journey towards thwarting the pharmaceutical company and the government by giving the world a free cure for the Beauty. […]
Review by Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– What if you could live a carefree life without work or worry and the only price for admission is your freedom and individuality? This is the world of Symmetry. A world in which humanity has sacrificed everything that makes them unique and lives a life of luxury with all of the […]
Review by Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– The Hybrid, the journey to Gallifrey and Clara’s death were all leading to this moment. In the season 9 finale of Doctor Who, showrunner Stephen Moffat wrapped up some plot threads and left several more wide open for the next season and beyond. For the first time since the series reboot […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reporter (Victor Valley)– Following a somewhat mediocre freshman season, the cast of Gotham knew they had to come out swinging in their second season. With the tagline “Rise of the Villains”, Gotham not only swung, but hit it out of the park. With several villains rising, the biggest bad so far has been James Frain’s […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer Waning: SPOILERS BELOW Usually, defining moments on Doctor Who such as regeneration and the loss of a companion are met with much expectation and fanfare and take place during the season finale. Face the Raven breaks this trend as The Doctor’s long-time companion Clara Oswald is seemingly killed while trying […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– Following the shocking revelations from the third issue, agents Foster and Vaughn continue to run for their lives as they attempt to expose the truth behind the Beauty before millions of people burst into flames. Dodging a deadly and skilled assassin, the two agents and their anti-beauty allies attempt to reveal the […]
By Daniel Schwartz Contributing Guest Reviewer (Victor Valley)– “My name is Jay Garrick and your world is in danger”. With that fantastic and telling line, fans of The Flash were introduced to Earth 2 and the DC multiverse. Earth 2 is an alternate universe in which Jay Garrick is The Flash and Harrison Wells is not a future villain in […]