Kingsman: The Secret Service review

Kingsman is like a film manifesto. 60s Bond meets King Arthur meet Indie Brit films meet Fast and the Furious meet Unbreakable meets Harry Potter.

The casting choices
Colin Firth is excellent
A bunch of lesser knowns have broken out thanks to Vaughn's choosing, including Gazelle.
NEVER TRUST MICHAEL CAINE
The KING
Maybe they should rename the sequel
The Kingsman's Speech.
I'll stop there.
Eggsy is like a chameleon, but I do think so many more characters are interesting
B

The Right Wing Church line

A little bit too easy of a target

Hasn't been done though

B

The Right Wing Church fight scene

Hasn't been done before

Colin Firth isn't exactly Bruce Lee, and that's a good thing to consider his lack of experience and his excellence.
This parallels Eggsy's goal of becoming a Kingsman, as he has to fight till he's the last one.

It's part There Will Be Blood.
A

Portrayal of the UK

Portrayal of the poor in Britain
Not necessarily comic book fan friendly.
I also doubt a lot of fans are paying attention and a lot are probably denying the aspect of riot filled poor England,
But it exists.
There are multiple mentions to this such as how Eggsy's mom gets beaten by a stepfather
And Eggsy's response to Harry Hart regarding obtaining a job.

A

Certain aspects of the film cover bad government and lying.

Poor portrayal of government agencies.

Was it a blank?

Did he lie?

(We're never shown.)

Arthur betrayed them.

King Arthur.
A

The camera
There's a lot of semi oners and oners.
Not sure if there's a lot of cinematography 101, but I'm still saying it's really good for a blockbuster.


Jane Goldman:
I'm not sure if it's cuz of her, but she's definitely getting credit for when she teams up with Vaughn.

Opening and closing scene are a bit idenitcal, but good.

Finally.
Anal sex scene was a bit stupid. No set up for it outside of the Princess stuff. Not quite Bond. Maybe supposed to be. Divided at the moment. Maybe will revise later. C

Overall an A- which could be higher if I figure out what that darn anal scene was about.

Batman Hush: Vol 1 by Jeph Loeb, Chapters 3-4

Chapter 4: The City
With Alan Scott flying like Superman
Fighting Iceman or at leas thtat's what I'm going to call him.
Captain Cold?
The Icicle.
Alan Scott claims, "He'll never win."

Sexual Lois and Batman.

Catwoman grabs Poison Ivy's hair.
Poison Ivy's plants grab Catwoman.
Superman grabs her.
Batman saves Catwoman's life.
Kryptonite Batman punches Superman
Catwoman tries to save Lois Lane from falling
before superman does.

Then for the most odd reason
Poison ivy runs into Krypto.
Wait wait wait-
Lemme guess.
No one can resist Poison Ivy.
Not even a dog.
What's her motivation.

Poison ivy was cool, but the story should've been about Hush.
Not Batman,
Not Poison Ivy
Not Superman,
Not Lois Lane.
Hush.
This title is a lie.

Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb Vol. 1 Chapters 1-2

Jeph Loeb's introduction where he talks like a 1%er talking about finding artists and drinking sets up the entire volume.

Not much happens.

We don't get to know who Hush is, which is what is so interesting about his character.

Thomas Wayne getting shot is pretty interesting.

The shots in the beginning chapter are very modern day, having us reminsce about Batman's origin.

We then shoot to Killer Croc attempting to fight Batman.
Really scary.
Bloody.
Batman defeats everything though.
Catwoman helps.

Catwoman then talks with poison Ivy over money.

And apparently there's some lesbian push with Ivy's pheremones.

Gangsters are fighting.

Huntress.

Ivy with money to a green lit lab.

I guess it's implied who Hush is, but you're not really given that reveal till another volume. So this is sorta useless.
Everythin gshould always matter in everything you do.
No filler.
The comic add hints that it's him, but why would you care if you didn't know who or what a Hush is? He's not canonical.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Vol 1 Chapter 2-3 Review

No. 6 Zexion. Introducing through visual cues rather and a bit of an odd display of character with his fermented business card.
Demyx.
Day 014. Last day buying the ice cream!

Chapter 3: Xion
Poker League
Assignment to Castle Oblivion takes up half a page for some odd reason.

The reveal of the Oblivion was cool.
Although, it wasn't on a next page or a bottom side of a page on the left (when you're reading right to left mind you!), it was a good use of top to down perspective to use the reveal.
The reaction shot of what would've been a pose after an attack was pretty cool as well.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Vol 1 Chapter 1 Review

Chapter 1:
My first reaction was that this had nothing to do with Kingdom Hearts outside of ice cream licking.

Second read through proved that wrong:
The day begins with the characters discussing which day it is.
MAD META SENSE TINGLING.
Sephiroth is jealous No. 13 Roxas is chosen as a Keyblade Master.
It is the most absurd and comical Sephiroth I have ever seen, but still plays into his character of jealousy when it comes to power.
Xion is introduced as No. 14.
Heart collectors vs chibi darkness.

Disney's Stan Lee's The Zodiac

Interesting idea of not just Caucasian superheroes

And it felt accurate. Different from the Caucasian dominated, books yet related yet legimately from another American subculture's point of view.

Great for starting reading a la Wheel of Time 600 pages go by fast.

However conversely, it didn't balance all the characters
Not a lot of subtext
Chapters paced by short
Not a lot of meat

The art is great though.

***/*****

Flash "Tricksters" Ending

He's not the real doctor Harrison Wells
When was he switched? Is solved, but why? Who is he really? Etc..
Great twist, albeit, now I gotta go back to see if there were clues, probably weren't.

Mark Hamill's friggin awesome. That's the Trickster everybody wants! Animated Joker Trickster.
Flash is mad dumb for being the fastest person in the world, but gives the good guys time to put a bomb on him. A bomb where they rip off Speed, but somehow not blowing them up before not going 600 mph.
AND phasing through a wall only works if you phase the explosion so it doesn't kill everyone else.

Flash "All Star Teamup"

The topics I want to discuss regarding the episode are:

• The Title
• The Theme
• The Overaching Antagonist
• And the hilarious chemistry of Brandon Routh and Co.

The title of the episode really has nothing to do with the episode outside Atom. I mean where's Green Arrow and Firestorm?

However, it has a very interesting theme and intelligent characters thinking about the issue of trust, after the revelation that one of the good guys isn't who they appear to be.

What if teammates joined Wells?
He isn't Wells.
Cisco's dream was a bit confusing as it may reveal that Reverse Flash imitated Cisco, but Wells' was there at the same time, creating some sort of time paradox or multiple time travel effect.
Also to note, is that the character of the episode involves heavily poisoning someone and stinging them, possibly to do with death or paranoia.

Also to note is that Caitlin is already associated with a bad metahuman, which may be explored in the next episode.

Ray Palmer and girlfriend and hilarious in a uncool Michael Cera, Social Network Tony Stark manner.
The Double Date was hilarious as well. Something to add some levity and balance it so well with such a sinister episode.

Dumb moment. Why does he tell Felicity who Reverse Flash "is?" Hey boyfriend loves Wells and he just told him and Flash is already worried.

I'm also thinking Wells' former colleague's story sorta has to do with nothing.

Mega Man NYCC 2014 Exclusive:

Fight Top Man then discuss malfunctions.
Fight Snake Man using Top Man's powers.

Venom: The Enemy Within

Venom vs the Punisher
Jim Lee Gangs
White Symbiote?

Juggernaut
What happened to Eddie?
Spider imagery.

Wolverine and Venom.


Down and Dirty
Hallowwen
Orange haired guy.

The Enemy Within
Part 1
Morbius
Demogoblin

Part 2

Police vs a cult

Finale
Elect Palentine for Mayor


The Incredible Hulk vs Venom