Graphic Novel Review: Blackest Night written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis

**Reposted from the ML Archives**   While Marvel Comics was the first to take advantage of zombies’ growing popularity by zombifying some of their most beloved heroes in Marvel Zombies, DC has now joined the fetid flesh party with Blackest Night.  Unlike Marvel Zombies, in which Marvel lets the action take place outside the normal settings of the Marvel universe, […]

Graphic Novel Review: Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks, art by Kelley Jones

**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** (Bookshop.com | Amazon.com ) DC Comics, 2020 Available: Hardcover, Kindle, comixology Set in 1886 New York, Daphne Byrne is still in mourning over the death of her father and has been affected greatly upon his passing. She’s tormented at school by the popular girls. She’s grappling with her mother who has […]

TV Review: Arrow Season 3

With this season the battle in Oliver Queen over whether he is a terrible person and dangerous to everyone around him or not peaks and crashes. As a romance buds between Oliver and my absolutely favorite character, Felicity Smoak, builds, so does Oliver’s survivor’s guilt. No wonder Felicity gets upset because certainly such thoughts haven’t […]

TV Review: Arrow Season 2

Many writers have focused on the conflict between Green Arrow, the vigilante, and Oliver Queen, the wealthy businessman in the comics and in commentary on the legacy of Green Arrow. In this season of Arrow writers wholly embrace this conflict. Oliver is clearly no longer the Oliver everyone knew before the island. Like many people […]

T.V. Review: Arrow season 1

As far as the DC tv-verse goes this is the one that launched them all. Unlike the MCU (in which all the shows and movies are connected) DC chose to establish separate cannons for their movie, t.v. shows, and comics. Arrow sparked off DC’s t.v. domination and in the first season it’s hard not to […]

Book Review: Wonder Woman: Rebirth Deluxe Edition book 1 by Reg Rucka, Liam Sharp, Nicola Scott, Laura Martin & Romulo Fajardo JR

I haven’t read a lot of Wonder Woman before. DC and Justice League always struck me as a major boy’s club, which typically played in line with normal gender roles I learned growing up. I had Wonder Woman underoos, but never really investigated who the character was outside of the token female sidekick to Batman […]

Book Review: Batgirl volume 1: The Darkest Reflection

by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf, and Vincente Cifuentes DC, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4012-3465-1 DC’s Batgirl reboot is only a partial one. We pick up sometime after The Killing Joke, where the Joker brutalized Barbara Gordon and broke Barbara’s back. Babs is recovered, thanks to tons of physical therapy and a spinal implant. But she’s still a […]

Book Review: Black Canary and Zantanna: Bloodspell by Paul Dini and Joe Quinones

DC Comics, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-4012-1054-0 A year ago Black Canary helped bust an all-feme cat burglar gang targeting a casino. Now the members of that gang are mysteriously dying–no, committing suicide. Is it really guilt driving them, or something else? Canary enlists the help of sorceress supreme Zantanna, but in the process risks giving a […]

TV Review: iZombie season 1

Liv Moore (*rimshot*) was an overachiever headed straight for a prestigious career as a heart surgeon and a wonderful life as the wife of perfect, sweet heart throb Major Lilywhite. (Yup, enjoy the puns, folks.) And then, after being encouraged to loosen up, Liv attends a party that ends in a zombie mini-pocalypse. Liv is […]