I have good news for you if you hated the movie adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens! Other than the title, the graphic novel and the movie have absolutely nothing in common. The characters are different, the story is different, the aliens are different, their motives are different, the weapons are different, it’s a completely different story. Makes you wonder why they adapted the movie at all if they were just going to throw the entire story out the window and start over. In the book […]
Interesting new science fiction series gets off to good start
10 years ago, the Trees arrived. Huge pillar structures landed all over the Earth and lay dormant except occasionally extruding some sort of toxic waste that melts everything it touches. In those 10 years there has been no sign the trees are even aware of our existence. Life has continues on Earth, but the presence of the Trees has changed things. New political structures emerged, cities around the Trees are abandoned to the crime syndicates, and artists. At a Norwegian Tree, strange black flowers are […]
Horror thriller set under the sea is solid but unremarkable
While on patrol off the coast of Syria, the naval submarine USS Nebraska detects a distress call 4000 feet down at the end of a long tunnel. They find a lost Russian submarine from the 1950’s perched on a precipice in the shadow of a massive underwater structure. On board the Russian sub the men find artifacts and ancient texts from the lost Ugarit people, the first known civilization with a written language. They learn the huge building is a sanctum, dedicated to an ancient […]
Don’t Tell Me To Smile
My goodness. What do I even say about this that hasn’t been said already? Bitch Planet is a prison planet for women who are “Non Complaint.” They are too fat, too mouthy, too ambiguously scary, too….too. For all their failings in the eyes of this toxic patriarchy (is there another kind?), they are sent to prison. But it’s not like the expectation to be compliant ends with getting put in prison. It just morphs, changes shape. Instead of the daily grind of microaggressions and 1960’s-style […]
Technicolor Space Voyage
There’s some satisfying symmetry to reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely hating every second of it (see my review for Pussy, King of Pirates from earlier in the year) and reviewing a gender-bent, acid trip of a reworked classic and absolutely loving it (see my review of ODY-C, right here!). First off, the coloring and the artwork are dazzling and delightful. There is a full page panel of Zeus, in all her glory (oh, yeah, small plot detail, Zeus eradicates […]
Khaleesi Wouldn’t Put Up With This
I know this is a beloved series and McCaffrey is one of the most prolific writers science fiction writers of all time. And I know that, for its time – a time before Ellen Ripley, Katniss Everdeen and Hermione Granger, it was revolutionary to have a story, a science fiction story no less, have a strong woman main character. But… I’m glad we’ve gotten better. We deserve better. Lessa, the main character, herself isn’t the problem. Lessa lives in a medieval like holding ruled by […]
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