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The Coming of...Sub-Mariner
Marvel Comics (Fantastic Four # 4, May 1962) I started these Marvel reviews with Fantastic Four # 1 but, as I mentioned then, Marvel...
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Nov 19, 2024
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World War Three
Doctor Who (2005) Classic Doctor Who was, of course, a serial show, each story stretched across several episodes, with only extremely...
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Oct 23, 2024
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The Dead Planet
Doctor Who (1963), The Daleks We're on another planet! That doesn't feel like that big a deal these days, when Doctor Who does stories on...
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Oct 11, 2024
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"High" and "Low" Art
Stories are an art form. I believe that firmly and totally. I believe that the words of a fictional work are akin to the oils of a...
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Sep 11, 2024
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The Menace of the Miracle Man
Marvel Comics (Fantastic Four # 3, March 1962) The cover of Fantastic Four # 3 rather boldly displays a blurb declaring it to be "The...
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Feb 1, 2023
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Aliens of London
Doctor Who (2005) And we're back to the futu...errrr present...kind of. What's a year out, more or less? Surely back in the present day...
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Dec 20, 2022
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The Firemaker
Doctor Who (1963), An Unearthly Child So our protagonists have attempted a daring escape from the Cave of Skulls, through the Forest of...
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Nov 9, 2022
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Canon vs. Continuity vs. Lore
Canon. Continuity. Lore. The Three-Headed Monster That Guards the Gate of "What Counts." As a fictional world grows and expands, it's...
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Sep 23, 2022
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The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space
Marvel Comics (Fantastic Four # 2, January 1962) So the Fantastic Four have made their debut. In that debut we had clashing...
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Aug 17, 2022
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The Unquiet Dead
Doctor Who (2005) We've been to the present. We've been to the future. With this episode, we complete the trifecta as Doctor Who...
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Aug 2, 2022
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