SAGA Volume Four, Issues 19-24 by Brian K. Vaughan (author) & Fiona Staples (illustrator)
Saga is one of those series that is so wildly popular, like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, or The Sopranos, that you start to worry how the writers can maintain its high quality. Can they keep up the momentum, originality, artistic integrity, and entertainment that make the series so special? Or will they hit a wall and produce a total stinker of an ending,
June 18th, 2019. Stuart Starosta and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Brian K. Vaughan | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Red Turtle by Michael Dudok De Wit
Have you ever felt completely hypnotised by a movie? That was how I felt watching The Red Turtle, a story of — quite simply — survival and love. From the moment it started from until the second the credits rolled, I was fixated on the images unfolding in front of me: a man that washes up on a deserted island, his explorations of the beach and interior, his miraculous meeting with a mysterious woman, and the life they lead together, utterly cut off from all civilization (if you’re wondering where a red turtle fits into all this,
April 17th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Happy Death Day by Christopher Landon
Since Groundhog Day came out in 1993, the premise of a single person being forced to live the same day over and over again has been adapted for the science fiction (Edge of Tomorrow), thriller (Run Lola Run), and psychological horror (Salvage) genres, with even television episodes from Charmed, The X-Files and Xena: Warrior Princess getting in on the act.
Happy Death Day passes the idea over the slasher genre,
April 1st, 2019. Rebecca Fisher | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Coco by Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina
When you settle down to watch a Pixar movie, you know you’re in for a treat. But as it happens, I finished Coco with rather mixed feelings. It ticked all the boxes of what we’ve come to expect from Pixar: a fascinating and inventive original premise, loveable characters, plenty of humour, at least one surprising plot-twist, and visuals that seem to glow with colour (especially in this film!) And yet Coco treads a lot of familiar ground when it’s compared not only to other the rest of the Pixar repertoire,
March 28th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Star Wars Rebels: Season 1 by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg & Greg Weisman
This show has been on my radar for a while, and I’m glad I finally found the time to settle down and binge the first fifteen episodes of the first season. As a follow-up to The Clone Wars (2008 – 2014) and a bridge between the prequel and original trilogies, Star Wars Rebels also holds the distinction of being the first STAR WARS project to be released after Disney’s procurement of the franchise.
Would it match the maturity and relative darkness of the preceding animated series?
March 27th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Lost Adventures by Aaron Ehasz (Author), Josh Hamilton (Author), Tim Hedrick (Author), Dave Roman (Author), J. Torres (Author), Joaquim Dos Santos (Illustrator)
As far as ideas for comic book tie-ins go, a series of “lost adventures” that take place over the course of any given series isn’t a bad one.
Collected here are the somewhat inconsequential escapades that happened to the protagonists of Avatar: The Last Airbender across all three seasons, from Aang attracting a swam of scorpion-bees, to Sokka impersonating the Avatar to impress a girl,
March 25th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Comics, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Demon: Volume 4 by Jason Shiga
So we come to it at last: the fourth and final instalment in Jason Shiga‘s Demon, detailing the misadventures (and catastrophic body-count) of Jimmy Yee, a one-time accountant who discovers he possesses the body of the person standing closest to him whenever he commits suicide.
As befits a final volume, Demon: Volume 4 is absolute, wall-to-wall insanity. There’s death, war, guns, massacres, catapults, baseball bats, kamakaze stunts — in fact,
March 22nd, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Demon: Volume 3 by Jason Shiga
This is the third book in Jason Shiga‘s Demon quartet; the story of Jimmy Yee, an otherwise ordinary accountant who realizes he’s a demon. This means that whenever he takes his own life, he ends up possessing the body of the person closest to him.
It’s a free pass to wealth and power, though ever since Jimmy found his daughter Sweetpea (also a demon) and evaded capture from the secret-ops agent who’s determined to exploit his abilities,
March 21st, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Demon: Volume 2 by Jason Shiga
In the second volume of Jason Shiga‘s Demon, we find Jimmy Yee pondering his options.
As he found out in the previous book, he’s a demon who possesses the body of the closest physical person to him every time he takes his own life.
Across the course of that story he experimented with the limits of his power and is now close to mastering the logistics of his macabre gift.
March 19th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Demon: Volume 1 by Jason Shiga
If you have a strong constitution and fifteen minutes to kill, you could do a lot worse than picking up Demon (2016), Jason Shiga’s graphic novel about a nihilistic suicidal actuary who finds a reason to go on living when he realizes he possesses the body of the person closest to him each time he kills himself.
His wife and daughter having died in a car accident, Jimmy Yee decides to end it all — only to find that his suicide attempts are thwarted each time by powers beyond his control.
March 18th, 2019. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Comics | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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