Tag Archives: action and adventure

Peter Berg’s Battleship

Posted on 10th June 2018 by Robert

The main reason I picked up Battleship was Taylor Kitsch, whom I had seen as Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and then as John Carter. When I ran across a copy of Battleship on sale, I grabbed it. Alex Hopper … Continue reading →

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Christophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups)

Posted on 27th May 2018 by Robert

I hardly know where to start with Christophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) – it’s sort of outside my normal range of subject matter, but the DVD case looked interesting enough, and the price was right, … Continue reading →

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Steven Brust’s Vallista

Posted on 21st October 2017 by Robert

Vallista is the fifteenth novel in the Taltos Cycle, recounting the adventures of Vlad Taltos, human (that is, “Easterner” to the Dragaerans), witch, and assassin. To set the stage, so to speak, the events in Vallista take place just before … Continue reading →

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John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Robert

I first ran across the work of John Ostrander in his collaboration with Gail Simone in Secret Six: Danse Macabre. I had my reservations, but now that I’ve read what may be considered the forerunner to that series, Suicide Squad: … Continue reading →

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Toshifumi Takizawa: Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai 7, The Complete Series

Posted on 17th July 2016 by Robert

In spite of the title, this is not exactly Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. It is, rather, an anime adaptation of the classic film, set in a dystopian future that contrasts the rural simplicity of the peasantry with a steampunk version of … Continue reading →

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Mike Costa, et al.: Blackhawks, Vol. 1: The Great Leap Forward

Posted on 1st March 2016 by Robert

Mike Costa’s Blackhawks represents not so much a reboot of the Blackhawk Squadron, the international team of fighter pilots that debuted in 1941, as a complete remake — really, from the ground up. The new Blackhawks are a top-secret black … Continue reading →

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Zack Snyder: Man of Steel

Posted on 7th January 2016 by Robert

It seems to be the Time of the Reboot. Or the retelling. In the case of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, it’s once again the Superman story, from Day One. The story in Man of Steel relates how the infant … Continue reading →

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