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Friday, September 26, 2008

New X-Men: "Planet X": Part II (#148-150)

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One of the interesting things about the arc is the way it positions Magneto’s revolution within the political climate of a post 9/11, Bush g...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New X-Men: "Planet X:" Part I (#146-148)

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In “Planet X,” the series we’ve been reading for the past thirty issues is hijacked by an insane Magneto, and taken down to hell for the big...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

New X-Men: 'Assault on Weapon Plus' (#142-145)

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“Assault on Weapon Plus” feels very different than the rest of Grant’s run on New X-Men, it's a European feeling over the top pop art e...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New X-Men: "Murder at the Mansion" (#140-141)

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After the amazing prelude issue, “Murder at the Mansion” proper begins in issue #140. This storyline is kind of a mixed bag for me, there’s ...
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True Blood: "The First Taste" (1x02)

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True Blood’s second episode does a successful job of expanding the universe a bit, and clarifying some of the elements that remained rather ...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

New X-Men: #139

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Let me start off by praising Phil Jiminez’s fantastic art on this issue. The weird coloring/inking issues from his previos New X-Men story h...
Monday, September 08, 2008

New X-Men: "Riot at Xaviers" (#134-138)

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“Riot at Xavier’s” is the most thematically essential storyline since “E for Extinction,” the first time that the new order Xavier has creat...

Mad Men: "The Gold Violin" (2x06)

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It seems like every episode of Mad Men leaves me saying that was one of the series’ best episodes yet, and this was no exception. It’s not s...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

True Blood: "Strange Love" (1x01)

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The last ten minutes of Alan Ball television were quite possibly the single greatest ten minutes of any TV show ever. Hyperbole you say? Per...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

New X-Men #132-133

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Morrison responded to 9/11 with two of the weakest issues in his New X-Men run. The major positive about these two issues is the way they br...
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