December 2011
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Comic Review: Ultimate Comics Spiderman #5
By Rafael A. Hernandez
Rolling along with young Miles Morales’ exploits as the new unofficial Spiderman, Ultimate Comics Spiderman #5 pulls all the content from the previous issues and ties them together into a package that readers have been hoping for. After his run in with Spiderwoman, Miles is taken to the Ultimates headquarters where he is interrogated but reluctantly accepted into...
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I Don't Know How To Read: Coriolanus
SO EXCITED! Having a Shakespeare party very soon and I am inviting some tragic people over to partake in the deception and the betrayal. Actually that may have been an inaccurate portrayal of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, being as I have never read it. But hey, all of Shakespeare’s tragedies are filled with betrayal and deception…and murder…and political turmoil.
I’ll...
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Comic Review: Defenders #1
By Rafael A. Hernandez
Avengers assemble! Oh wait, wrong team. Sorry about that. Defenders…assemble? Not quite the epic start as hoped for but it will do. Marvel has just revamped The Defenders series and we are all flustered with anticipation. Yes? Okay not really. But it is not to say that this new beginning of Doctor Strange’s rag tag group is anything to laugh at and with a new out of...
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Comic Review: Detective Comics #4
By Rafael A. Hernandez
Gotham City, the backdrop for a series of corruption and maniacs fond of sewing up the flesh of live victims. Batman has finally been able to escape the clutches of the Dollmaker and now has to unveil the truth behind Gordon’s abduction. There are certainly some storytelling convolutions throughout this latest issue and though they may be confusing they appear to...
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Comic Review: Avenging Spiderman #2
By Rafael A. Hernandez
Yellow subterranean creatures EVERYWHERE! And why? Because an even bigger subterranean race (also yellow) is kicking them out of their homes- caves? So who do you turn to? Jonah Jameson?! Okay, I’ll bite. The second issue of Amazing Spiderman is a disappointing follow up to the very exciting and fun premier issue. Though there are still a few laughs to be had and...
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Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4
By Rafael A. Hernandez
The last three issues in one sentence- mutant turtles and their rat father figure search for their lost brother who they have not even met since their transfigured infancy.
Grab a slice of pizza and start trying to perform some backflips because it’s time for ninja turtle action with the fourth issue of the reinvented Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. What is...
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Book Review: Murder On The Orient Express by...
By Rafael A. Hernandez
Be weary the next time you book a trip on the Amtrak because in all likelihood you will become a player in a dramatic murder scene perpetrated by some mysterious killer. Okay, not really. You will probably take a nap or read a few pages of a book. But should you decide to read something, make it the mystery classic Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Another...
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“I don’t know about you, but I’d like to live to meet my...”
– Colonel Sykes (The Passage by Justin Cronin)