Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is my first exploration into the Fables series. It's a mixed bag.

The first story has a wizar wanting to kill Snow White like the many thousand virgins he knows in some sort of unknown unspecific stereotypical manner.

Art-wise, I enjoyed how it was presented as a novel, making some really want to rethink the management of the genre, and even ponder whether this book was a graphic novel or a conventional one. The art blends well between the Victorian beginnings to Middle Eastern exploration.

The Fencing Lessons

Naked women in a sexual relationship to combine kingdoms opposed to having them at war.

The Christmas Pies looks consists of art pieces you could hang on your wall, using the dot techniques. Eating. Hiding into the woods.

The Frog Prince. Only a prince sometimes.

The Runt. Big Bad Werewolf, who overcomes odds before becoming a monster thanks to bullying. Eventually has a powerful growl.

A Mother's Love, a cursed rabbit that I don't quite understand.

Disaspora including the Witches' Tale. The witch wanting to marry, but eventually needed to eat children for her youth and stuff. Tribespeople. The witch would scare children, not to mention boobs.

Fair Division ends the book with a crisis on infinite earths style finale with animals in the middle east to wrap everything up.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, "Retreat"

The book starts off with Willow and her girlfriend and demons.
I enjoy how the story changes when you turn the page.
Willow and her girlfriend are noticeably uglier than they are in the show, making it very anti-Hollywood.
Buffy reveals her reservations of losing Willow after killing the Evil one in the future.
Giles responds wittily by saying that he didn't have time for such an explanation.
And Whedon's writers capture Whedon's universe well by developing characters that want to survive and go on in their next stage in life: parenthood.

I would rather have Brad Pitt than Jared Leto play the Joker

The Dark Knight showed us certain things:
It should us that fans wanted a darker, more realistic Joker,
But not one that lacks in charisma.

Brad Pitt has worked ensemble movies. He's produced. He's directed. He's well known. He's a great name.
He's played Tyler Durden for Fight Club in his career defining role, a role that is still very popular to this day 15 years later.

He should play the Joker instead of Jared Leto.

Redoing the Top 15 Batman Films Again Before The 75th Anniversary is Over

1. The Dark Knight Returns
2. Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm
3. The Dark Knight
4. Justice League: The New Frontier
5. Batman ’89
6. Batman Begins
7. Batman: Under the Red Hood
8. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
9. Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero
10. Batman Forever
11. Batman: Gotham Knight
12. The Dark Knight Rises
13. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
14. Batman & Robin
15. Batman ’66

Also:

The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Forever
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Worst

1. Catwoman
2. Justice League: Doom
3. Mystery of the Batwoman
4. Batman vs Dracula
5. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
6. Year One
7. Batman Returns

Main Street (novel) Analysis: Feminist views

I was really blown away by this decision as many others were.
So often I use the masculine or asexual point of view that I really lack the opportunity to observe feminine voice well, and boy does this book get it right:
The use of the female in Main Street is to give the viewers the perspective of gender equality or the fight for it, in order to show the changing of times in the world, the setting of Main Street.
Less is done in the factories, which'll predicted well by the author, will be done by machines, more time for university, education, liberal arts, feminism and work by females.
The book still does have a Victorian point of view for women, but it's still by all means accomplishes its goals as a great work of fiction.

What I like about Superman: Red Son

Recently after getting my Superman: Red Son t-shirt, I pondered my fandom towards him and possibly other Elseworlds, new directions for certain brands in different realities.
Superman: Red Son is very interesting. It doesn't feel super patriotic of the US considering that they mainly use Superman villains and keep them that way to fight Superman.
You have to realize Superman's super white washed background, fighting enemies nobody likes in Hitler, and probably a soviet here and there, much like in a campy 80s Hulk Hogan vs Nikolai Volkoff-Iron Sheik manner. It's ignorant, unphilosophical, racist fanaticism and nationalism that really looked down on the rest of Earth's humans, in times where Eastern Europeans were looked down upon. Not to say that Superman: Red Son was a good guy, or worked for an idealistic non-opportunistic uncorrupt government.
But he definitely had a human quality to him that made him relatable. In a time of New Yorkers, treating every southerner like W., Clark Kent's Midwestern roots were still shown in wherever he was in Red Son: he was honorable and had beliefs. He had this bit of Char Aznable to him and had to make a lot more difficult choices that he seemed to do with ease as Superman, because of how he grew up in the Eastern bloc.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Relics" (The Novel) is a poor adaptation

The book begins with the original Star Trek crew, which was omitted from the actual script for obvious reasons. There's a plot with ensign Darrin Kane, Captain Armstrong and a bunch of minor characters that I'm not too familiar with from my time following the novel. It doesn't get resolved in this novel either and seems to be done just to bad things out.
The novel does capture the characters' voices, and I like how each chapter is basically like a scene and transition from Next Gen, but so much was taken from the Next Generation episode that it's sort of hard not for that to happen.
The holodeck scene is interesting but minor and Geordi's scenes are cut and minor, despite his role in the original episode. Overall, quite disappointing.