Archives for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Black Adam: The dark age

By Miles Benson • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Reviews

With Valentine’s day right around the corner, whether you’re with someone or not, this book upholds a valuable lesson that many take for granted and can help instill meaning in an otherwise “fake” holiday.



Birds of prey

By Miles Benson • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Reviews

Starring strong women characters that embody so much of what the feminist ideal is; for this series to survive when the core audience of comic books are primarily young males is no small feat.



Big questions

By Miles Benson • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

A good theory about how we quite literally are what we eat. On second thought it may have nothing to do with that…and I think that’s the point



Big numbers

By Miles Benson • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

Fractal geometry, chaos theory and mathematical ideas were the inspiration for the unfinished book from Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz.



Beyond!

By Miles Benson • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Reviews

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”



Haunted

By Miles Benson • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

Review of Chuck Palahniuk’s 7th novel



Beware the Creeper: Volume 2

By Miles Benson • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

Set in 1925 Paris, a lame character creation from 1968 proved to be a perfect vessel for the book’s social commentary



Battle Chasers

By Miles Benson • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

One of the most popular and highest selling books in the late 1990s leaves you with soul searching and a cliff hanger to which may never be solved.



Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman: Trinity

By Miles Benson • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Reviews

The existence of the DC comics universe as well as so many other super heroes pretty much exist because of the popularity of these three characters.



Batman & Superman: World’s Finest

By Miles Benson • Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Reviews

Because of their inability to work together, they were not able to save a life. Now, every year they meet and work to improve their group dynamics.