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| Dollhouse 1.12 “Omega” |
I know that a lot of you have been waiting a long time for my review of Dollhouse’s season finale, and the reason you’ve been forced to wait is because I wanted to make sure that it was either going to be cancelled or renewed for next season. Well, that… |
James Donnelly |
05/26/09 |
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09/21/09 |
| Dollhouse 1.10 “Haunted” and 1.11 “Briar Rose” |
This has been a long time coming for Episode 10 of Dollhouse, but couldn’t come soon enough for Episode 11! Oh, man, it’s been rough to really get my thoughts together for Ep 10, entitled “Haunted”, but once I formulated them, I almost didn’t even want to review it, because… |
James Donnelly |
05/06/09 |
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| Dollhouse (1.9) - “Spy in the House of Love” |
This week on Dollhouse, more secrets are revealed, and we finally learn what exactly it means to go to “The Attic”. The very opening moments of the episode show a POV shot of a struggling someone who is being led by their arms and legs through a dark room with… |
James Donnelly |
04/15/09 |
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04/16/09 |
| Dollhouse (01.08) “Needs” |
This week on Dollhouse, the aftermath of the memory recall of last week’s episode is now a major concern of all of the staff, and the fallout is less than spectacular. The episode begins with now-suspended Agent Ballard as Echo comes to his home. She is apparently off-engagement again as… |
James Donnelly |
04/09/09 |
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| Irredeemable #1 |
So I put it to you: Take Superman, add a dash of contempt, a spoonful of paranoia, and a whole heaping helping of homicidal impulses and you get The Plutonian, the super-powered maniac of Mark Waid’s new comic Irredeemable, which is a travel into the mind of someone who is… |
James Donnelly |
04/03/09 |
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| Dollhouse (1.7) - “Echoes” |
This week on Dollhouse, the unleashing of an experimental drug leads to murder and unlocked memories for the Actives! Uh-oh… As those of us following the show know, last week’s ep kicked the series into high gear because just about everything changed. Ballard finally faced Echo with two separate imprints… |
James Donnelly |
03/31/09 |
1 |
11/12/09 |
| The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks #1 |
The resurgence in pulp icon heroes coming back to comics has been something that I’ve been a huge fan of since Dynamite Entertainment started doing the reboot of The Lone Ranger. I’ve always loved the pulp heroes, particularly The Shadow (and some time soon, I’m hoping that someone will do… |
James Donnelly |
03/27/09 |
5 |
03/30/09 |
| Dollhouse (1.06) “Man on the Street” |
This week on Dollhouse, we go to the man on the street to get an idea of what the inhabitants of Los Angeles think about what exactly the Dollhouse is. And as a special bonus, Agent Ballard finally catches up with Echo, something terrible is being done to one of… |
James Donnelly |
03/23/09 |
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| Ultimatum #3 |
Let’s be honest: I didn’t have a whole lot of faith in the Ultimate Marvel Universe at first. I thought it was just another way for Marvel to milk their two biggest cash-cows, namely Spider-Man and the X-Men, for more money by reinventing them and putting them in a more… |
James Donnelly |
03/20/09 |
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03/29/09 |
| Dollhouse 1.5 “True Believer” |
This week on Dollhouse, there’s religious zealots, federal agents with a morally corrupt axe to grind, and some other issues… well, rising in the Dollhouse. This week, it more-or-less diverts back from the mythology of the show into a pretty straight-forward stand-alone, and if it were written by anyone else… |
James Donnelly |
03/17/09 |
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| Dollhouse 1.4 “Gray Hour” |
This week on Dollhouse, a great danger is revealed to the Dollhouse as the mythology of the series begins to come even more into place. Also this week, it actually feels like an original story as opposed to it just being a riff on a oft-told tale. The episode begins… |
James Donnelly |
03/09/09 |
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| Daredevil #116 |
For years I’ve always thought of Wilson Fisk as the end-all-be-all of Matt Murdock’s villains. And that’s pretty much held true, especially since Frank Miller started his work on Daredevil. Gone were the days of DD fighting gaudy villains like Gladiator, The Masked Marauder and The Owl, because Miller and… |
James Donnelly |
03/06/09 |
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| Dollhouse 1.3 “Stage Fright” |
This week, Dollhouse continues to try to hit the stride that it seems to so desperately want to hit, while at the same time wanting to put the cookie-cutter mentality of the pop music business under the microscope, but it falls a little short on both, but the ep does… |
James Donnelly |
03/02/09 |
5 |
05/04/09 |
| New Avengers #50 |
With “Dark Reign” starting to take effect within the Marvel Universe, it’s shaping up to be one hell of a battle royale, and it will be a good old-fashioned heroes vs. villains brawl, as opposed to Civil War, but this time, it looks like, in the public eye anyway, that… |
James Donnelly |
02/28/09 |
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| Dollhouse 1.2 “The Target” |
This week in The Dollhouse, Joss Whedon aka God of Multimedia (TV, film, comic books, webisodes) takes us further into some of the mysteries behind the mysterious goings-on there. Mysteries that are chock-full of slimy executives, two-faced psychopaths, a very fatherly-daughterly kind of bond, and a reveal as to who… |
James Donnelly |
02/25/09 |
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| Dollhouse 1.1 “Ghost” |
Rarely in television history has there been a more rabid following of a creative force than there has been for Joss Whedon. With Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, he has created programs that will do much more than stand the test of time, and endure in many of… |
James Donnelly |
02/17/09 |
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02/17/09 |
| Incognito #2 |
I gotta tell you, every time that a book by the creative team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips comes out, it’s like the most wonderfully twisted and amoral gift that God could ever give. From their work on Sleeper, to the more recent Criminal series, and now with Incognito,… |
James Donnelly |
02/13/09 |
1 |
02/16/09 |
| Franklin Richards - Son of a Genius: Dark Reigning Cats and Dogs #1 |
As many of us are aware, Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards (the defacto parent figures of the Marvel Universe), has helped save humanity and its heroes during the Onslaught affair. He also sacrificed his life in adulthood to save the world from the Sentinels in the “Days… |
James Donnelly |
02/07/09 |
1 |
09/02/09 |
| Battlefields: Dear Billy #1 |
Garth Ennis knows his stuff when it comes to war. I don’t know whether or not he’s just very well-read on the subject, or from having to grow up in Northern Ireland, but he knows how to craft a war story. From the Vietnam stories of Jesse Custer’s father, to… |
James Donnelly |
01/30/09 |
1 |
02/17/09 |
| Dark Avengers #1 |
It’s fact. It’s law. It’s an axiom. It’s Scripture. So it is written; so shall it be done. And the truth is this: Norman Osborn is the biggest scumbag, sleazebag, jagoff bastard slimebucket that has ever slithered onto the page of a Marvel comic. He despised his own son and… |
James Donnelly |
01/23/09 |
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| The Shadow Gallery’s Best of 2008 |
Welcome back to The Shadow Gallery. I know it’s been a long time, but I’m back and I’m here to talk about something very special. The year of 2008. As I’m sure you’re already aware (unless you’re still recovering from your New Year’s party, in which case, I recommend calling… |
James Donnelly |
01/23/09 |
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| Punisher: War Zone #4 |
As anyone who might regularly read my reviews on this site, you know that I’m no small fly-by-night fan of the creative team of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. To me, they represent everything that is supposed to be great about comics. They’re always daring, smart, funny, and consistent. They’ve… |
James Donnelly |
01/09/09 |
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| Buffy The Vampire Slayer #20 |
Not so long ago, I was eviscerating the inexplicable fanboy-fave writer Jeph Loeb, and with what I believe to be good reason. There’s been nothing really that Loeb has ever done that has blown my proverbial skirt up as a writer. Sure he’s been involved in some very high profile… |
James Donnelly |
12/19/08 |
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12/21/08 |
| X Men Noir #1 |
As opposed to DC, Marvel seems to be having a really powerful creative streak going now with all the things that they’re willing to change, shake up and destroy, which is really the opposite of what I always expected from Marvel. They always seemed like the company that was entirely… |
James Donnelly |
12/06/08 |
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| Batman #681 |
It’s the week of Thanksgiving and, in the spirit of the season, we should all have something that we’re thankful for. For me, at least as of this past Wednesday, I was thankful that Grant Morrison’s scattershot, self-indulgent, overly confusing mess of the “R.I.P” storyline in Batman has come to… |
James Donnelly |
11/30/08 |
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| Avengers/Invaders #6 |
Well, we’re at the halfway point of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger’s very ambitious maxi-series Avengers/Invaders… and sadly there is still no Union Jack (Sorry, but he‘s always been one of my favorite characters, and any mention of The Invaders makes me want some Union Jack…), but happily the series… |
James Donnelly |
11/21/08 |
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| Batman: Cacophony #1 |
Ah, Kevin Smith. He may be known to most of the public at large as a filmmaker of such classics as Clerks, Mallrats (one of my personal favorite films… no, really), Chasing Amy and most recently Zack and Miri Make a Porno, but to the tried-and-true fanboys, he is best… |
James Donnelly |
11/14/08 |
3 |
12/22/08 |
| Daredevil And Captain America: Dead On Arrival |
Let me first say that I always like the idea of infusing very ‘American’ heroes with foreign creators. I don’t really count the British, Irish or Scottish…or even the Welsh when it comes to this, because they work pretty consistently in American comics. But when we’re talking about someone from… |
James Donnelly |
11/07/08 |
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| The Astounding Wolf-Man #9 |
It’s certainly not easy being Gary Hampton. First, the guy’s bitten by a werewolf, thus becoming a werewolf himself. Then his millionaire status collapses like an under-cooked soufflé, causing some tension on the home front with his wife and daughter. But things do start to look a little up when… |
James Donnelly |
10/31/08 |
1 |
08/12/09 |
| Captain Britain and MI13 #6 |
The eternal question: The devil you know versus the devil you don’t. That’s the question that’s been plaguing MI-13 for a few issues now. It really started when Pete Wisdom decided that it would be in Britain’s best interest to let loose the evil forces of magic so that they… |
James Donnelly |
10/18/08 |
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| Secret Six #2 |
You know what the real secret behind the Secret Six is? They’re the bad guys you can stand up and root for, even when they know (and you know) that they’re doing a bad thing. But most of the time, they end up doing the wrong things for the right… |
James Donnelly |
10/10/08 |
2 |
12/13/08 |
| The Shadow Gallery for the Week of 10/04/08 |
This week was pretty short and sweet, so without further ado, please enter THE SHADOW GALLERY. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Batman #680 I can hardly believe that I’m about to admit this, but I think that for the most part, this installment of “R.I.P” kinda made sense.… |
James Donnelly |
10/05/08 |
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| Back To Brooklyn #1 |
Back in the 1960’s, films like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ and ‘The Wild Bunch’ ushered cinema into a new and unashamed world of extremely graphic violence, and it changed Hollywood forever. Violence is nothing new to comics, but never has it been better utilized than by Garth Ennis. He’s one of… |
James Donnelly |
09/26/08 |
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| Daredevil #111 |
Well, it’s a happier time for Matt Murdock right now. He saved an innocent man from Death Row, and is back doing what he does best: kicking butt in Hell’s Kitchen and being targeted by The Hand. He’s had a lot of experience over the years dealing with that crazy… |
James Donnelly |
09/26/08 |
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| The Shadow Gallery for the Week of 9/20/08 |
Welcome back. It’s been some time since we’ve had a chance to talk. But now, you’re back. And so am I. Let us re-enter The Shadow Gallery together. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Captain Britain and MI-13 #5 Now that the craziness of the Secret Invasion has passed… |
James Donnelly |
09/21/08 |
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| War Heroes #2 |
Mark Millar is unquestionably one of the most challenging writers out there right now. He’s also a pretty big hit-or-miss guy for me. He helped to design the Ultimate Universe with Ultimate X-Men (which, when he was doing it, was brilliant) and the amazing Ultimates Vol.’s 1 and 2 (and… |
James Donnelly |
09/19/08 |
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| Runaways 3 #1 |
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home for the motley crew of kids that constitute the cast of Runaways. And that saying is literal for them, because they don’t have a home. Over all their adventures and all their relocations, they don’t have a place they can… |
James Donnelly |
08/29/08 |
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| THE DARK KNIGHT, and how it made me eat my words. |
Insert mouth, firmly place foot. This film’s business proved me wrong. |
James Donnelly |
08/25/08 |
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| The Shadow Gallery for the Week of 8/23/08 |
It’s a new week filled with new comics, so without further ado, let’s jump into THE SHADOW GALLERY. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Captain America #41 How do I love this book? Let me count the ways. First, James Barnes has stepped up completely into his role as… |
James Donnelly |
08/23/08 |
2 |
08/25/08 |
| True Believers #2 |
The truth can be a beautiful and terrifying thing. Beautiful in the way that it reveals the nature of things, and terrifying because of the same reason. In a day and age where we have an overload of stimuli about the ‘truth’ of people and celebrities in particular, Marvel and… |
James Donnelly |
08/22/08 |
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| The Shadow Gallery for the Week of 8/16/08 |
This was a historic week in the realm of the comic world in some respects, and in others, it was just a pretty damn good week. I’ll cover those here… in this week’s installment of THE SHADOW GALLERY. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. The Punisher #60 This is… |
James Donnelly |
08/17/08 |
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| The Lone Ranger #12 |
For me, The Lone Ranger has meant great storytelling, great art, great action and suspense mixed with emotional and powerful themes. Unfortunately, it has also meant waiting a long time between issues. While The Lone Ranger #12 doesn‘t break a lot of new ground here, it was worth waiting for.… |
James Donnelly |
08/15/08 |
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| Welcome to Hoxford #1 |
Clearly, Ben Templesmith is a twisted dude. He’s assisted Steve Niles with revitalizing the comics flailing horror genre with books like 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre. He has his own twisted comic called Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse. Well, he’s added a new psycho-horror title to his oeuvre: Welcome to… |
James Donnelly |
08/15/08 |
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| The Shadow Gallery for the week of 8/9/2008 |
Wow, this was a pretty big week this week and I’m going to regale, amaze and bother you with my thoughts on this week in comics in the latest edition of THE SHADOW GALLERY. I’m also going to talk about why Grant Morrison is really pissing me off, but just… |
James Donnelly |
08/10/08 |
1 |
08/11/08 |
| Detective Comics #847 |
Everyone in the comics world knows that other than Spider-Man, the superhero with the best Rogue’s Gallery is Batman. And we also know that the world of Batman is defined not so much by the hero, but by the villains. If you haven’t watched “Batman: Gotham Knight” yet, you should.… |
James Donnelly |
08/08/08 |
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08/10/08 |
| The Invincible Iron Man #4 |
Tony Stark is not my favorite person in the Marvel U. right now. The SHRA is something that is causing far too much chaos. He has admitted his own culpability in the assassination of Steve Rogers. He’s usurped the position of director of SHIELD to further his own agendas, not… |
James Donnelly |
08/08/08 |
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| Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #51 |
Make no mistake about it; I like Adults Only comics. Since I was too young to start reading them, I’ve been reading them. When I was 15, I read my first issue of Faust by David Quinn and Tim Vigil, and when I saw the ultra-extreme carnage and gore, the… |
James Donnelly |
08/02/08 |
1 |
05/21/09 |
| THE SHADOW GALLERY for the week of 8/2/2008 |
It’s a new week and new releases in the comic world are forcing the doors of THE SHADOW GALLERY to open up once again so that I may either heap praise or pounce upon the comics of this week. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. This was an incredibly… |
James Donnelly |
08/02/08 |
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| THE SHADOW GALLERY for the week of 7/26/08 |
Welcome to THE SHADOW GALLERY, a weekly blog, new to Popsyndicate.com featuring me, James Donnelly (and hopefully some of the other reviewers at some point), that will have a briefish rundown of the comics I read this week, and ones that I’ve read recently that had a significant impact, whether… |
James Donnelly |
07/26/08 |
1 |
07/26/08 |
| Liberty Comics #1 |
Censorship. Such a vast meaning is given to such a small word, and not without good reason. Governments, whether they be a small bureaucracy such as a town or county, or an entire nation, have passed laws in order to shield people from things that they consider unsafe. Now, in… |
James Donnelly |
07/25/08 |
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07/27/08 |