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Author: Rachel Bellwoar

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We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Fly Swatter: Advance Review Of Blackwood #4

With the future of Blackwood unknown, Blackwood #4 ends its run stubbornly as a miniseries. Did it ever claim to

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August 22, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3003 Views 0 Comment Andy Fish, Blackwood, Dark Horse Comics, Evan Dorkin, Veronica Fish
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Hollywood’s Role In ‘Marilyn’s Monsters’ Gets Called Out In Tommy Redolfi’s OGN

Many of Marilyn Monroe’s most popular roles were in romantic comedies but it’s the horror genre that provides the template

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August 20, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 13271 Views Humanoids, Marilyn's Monsters, Tommy Redolfi
TV 

Cracking Castle Rock – Episode 6: “Filter,” Or The Revenge Plot

When I come back, I’m not going anywhere, and neither are you. – Alan Pangborn Lines like that tend to

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August 16, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2926 Views 0 Comment Castle Rock, Hulu, Stephen King
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Get Ready To Move To ‘Girl Town,’ A New Graphic Novel By Carolyn Nowak

Picture Scene: Your run of the mill street in suburbia. The weather, sunny and blue skies. Suddenly, rising out of

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August 16, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 5437 Views 0 Comment Carolyn Nowak, Girl Town, Top Shelf
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Laundry And Ghosts: An Advanced Review Of Brenna Thummler’s ‘Sheets’

Laundry is, “too real.” The problem with ghosts is, “they’re not.” When introducing the main character for a middle grade

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August 13, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4076 Views Brenna Thummler, Lion Forge, Sheets
TV 

Cracking Castle Rock – Episode 5: “Harvest,” Or The Kid Leaves Shawshank

You’d think a massacre would take a while to skip people’s minds, and it’s not like it’s forgotten, but “Harvest,”

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August 8, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3579 Views 0 Comment Castle Rock, Hulu, Stephen King
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Guilt And Photography: A Review Of Seekan Hui’s Graphic Novel, ‘A Projection’

Ever go into a book thinking you know what to expect, but then something appears and you don’t know what

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August 8, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3232 Views A Projection, Avery Hill, Seekan Hui
TV 

The Ladies’ Paradise, Season 2: Learning To Tolerate Paradiso’s Leading Man

How do you recover from telling your girlfriend your wife died, when she’s actually alive and well? That should be

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August 6, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 13693 Views AcornTV, drama, The Ladies' Paradise, tv
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Cracking Castle Rock – Episode 4: “The Box,” Or The Downfall Of Dennis Zalewski

I said Castle Rock was going to destroy Dennis Zalewski, but I didn’t think they’d take out his reputation first.

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August 1, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4399 Views 0 Comment Castle Rock, Hulu, Stephen King
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Alice And Wonderland In Space Meets Death: A Review Of Euthanauts #1

You know you’re afraid of dying when you’re nervous to read a comic that deals with dying, just as you

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July 31, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3752 Views 0 Comment Aditya Bidikar, Black Crown, Euthanauts, IDW, Nick Robles, Tini Howard
Film 

The Battier, The Better: A Review Of Kino Lorber’s Blu-Ray: Irma La Douce

Reteaming Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine from The Apartment with director, Billy Wilder, Irma la Douce is the story of

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July 24, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3406 Views Billy Wilder, Irma La Douce, Jack Lemmon, Kino Lorber, Shirley MacLaine
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Castle Rock: An Early Review Of Episodes 1-3

It’s not every writer who can lay claim to a literary universe. Welcome to Castle Rock, an original series set

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July 23, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3101 Views Castle Rock, Hulu, Stephen King
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It’s Great To Be ‘Bad Girls’ In Alex De Campi And Victor Santos’ New Graphic Novel

You don’t usually think of stealing six million dollars as an add-on item, like picking up milk at the store

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July 19, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3348 Views Alex de Campi, Bad Girls, Gallery 13, Victor Santos
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Advance Review: Blackwood #3 Vindicates Any Hard Feelings You’ve Ever Harbored Against Bugs

[**Spoilers if you haven’t seen Dark Horse’s preview for Blackwood #3] If you forget how Blackwood #2 ended, it will all

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July 18, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2976 Views 0 Comment Andy Fish, Blackwood, Dark Horse Comics, Evan Dorkin, Veronica Fish
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Alisik Volume 1 Is An Animated Movie Waiting To Happen

We don’t know how Alisik died. We don’t know what she did in life to become a postmortal, but after

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July 17, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2950 Views Alisik, Alisik Fall, Helge Vogt, Hubertus Rufledt, Titan Comics
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The Ballad of Halo Jones, Volume 2: A Year In The Life Of Mz. Jones

If Volume 1 dropped you into the world of Halo Jones, Volume 2 tells you more about that world in

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July 13, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 6416 Views 0 Comment 2000AD, Alan Moore, Barbara Nosenzo, Halo Jones, Ian Gibson, Steve Potter, The Ballad of Halo Jones
TV 

Audio Drama Review – Maggie And Quentin: The Lovers’ Refrain From Dark Shadows

Maggie and Quentin: The Lovers’ Refrain Directed by David Darlington, Joseph Lidster, Alan Flanagan, and Jim Pierson Dark Shadows was one

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July 12, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4073 Views audio drama, Big Finish, Dark Shadows, Maggie and Quentin, The Lovers' Refrain
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Advance Review: Jughead Takes Flight In Archie’s Superteens Vs. Crusaders #2

What happens if Archie, comicdom’s poster high school teen, has no high school left to attend? As Steel Sterling looks

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July 6, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2957 Views 0 Comment Archie Comics, Archie SuperTeens vs. Crusaders, David Williams, Gary Martin, Ian Flynn, Jack Morelli, Kelsey Shannon, The Mighty Crusaders
TV 

An American Take On A Very English Scandal

Never has a national insurance card been at the center of so much drama as it is in A Very

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June 29, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3175 Views A Very English Scandal, Amazon, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Thorpe, Norman Scott, Russell T. Davies
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Blackwood #2 Signals Rough Waters For An Occult University’s Students

Last month, in my review for Blackwood #1, I avoided talking about the ending but there’s a line I want

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June 27, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3328 Views Andy Fish, Blackwood, Dark Horse Comics, Evan Dorkin, Veronica Fish
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The Bog Road: An Enchanting Walk Through Irish Mythology

It’s a battle of man versus nature in Barry Keegan’s The Bog Road, a comic steeped in Irish mythology that’s

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June 22, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 5396 Views Atomic Diner, Barry Keegan, Chris O'Halloran, George Patrick Gamma, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Bog Road
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It Came Out On A Wednesday #1 Is Coming – Batman #50 Better Watch Out

In two weeks, Alterna Comics releases their new, bi-monthly anthology. Named after the weekday that gifts us with new comics,

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June 21, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3557 Views Alterna Comics, Anthology, It Came Out On A Wednesday
Film 

Blu-Ray Review: The Bloodthirsty Trilogy From Arrow Films

From the studio that brought you Godzilla, comes a Japanese vampire trilogy you may not know exists but, thanks to

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June 11, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4609 Views Arrow Films, Japanese films, The Bloodthirsty Trilogy, vampires
TV 

Better At Business Than Love: The Ladies’ Paradise, Season 1

How we shop has changed a lot since 1956. Online shopping has made it convenient to never step foot in

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June 7, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 6088 Views AcornTV, drama, Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise, tv
Film 

Listen Up For ‘The God Inside My Ear’ – A Movie Review

At least if Fred (Joseph Estrade) had left her for another woman, Elizia (Linnea Gregg) would know where she stands,

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June 5, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4907 Views film, Joe Baden, The God Inside My Ear
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Advance Review: The Doctor And Ace Head To Australia In The Seventh Doctor #1

Titan’s Doctor Who comic line rings in a new this week when Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor starts his three-issue run.

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June 4, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3016 Views Ace, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Charlie Kirchoff, Christopher Jones, Doctor Who, Jessica Martin, Jimmy Betancourt, Marco Lesko, Richard Dinnick, Richard Starkings, Sophie Aldred, Sylvestor McCoy, The Seventh Doctor, Titan Comics
Comics 

Advance Review: Riverdale’s Finest Join Forces In Archie Superteens Vs. Crusaders #1

If high school students can be capos and detectives on Riverdale, why not superheroes? Archie Superteens vs. The Mighty Crusaders

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May 30, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3911 Views Archie Comics, Archie SuperTeens vs. Crusaders, David Williams, Gary Martin, Ian Flynn, Jack Morelli, Kelsey Shannon, The Mighty Crusaders
Comics 

Hasib & The Queen of Serpents Pulls You Deep Into A Tale Of A Thousand And One Nights

Once you know what you’re reading, it’s present everywhere, but overlook the part on the cover that Hasib & the

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May 29, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4574 Views A Tale of a Thousand and One Nights, David B., Hasib & the Queen of Serpents, NBM
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Advance Review: Don’t Let Anything Stand In The Way Of Your Reading Barrier #5

When we left Liddy and Oscar in issue four, they had lassoed an alien. Issue five sees their hostage negotiations

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May 29, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3247 Views Barrier, Brian K. Vaughan, Image Comics, Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente
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Luke Healy Lays On The Metaphor In His Wonderful “Permanent Press”

Do other people get a thrill out of footnotes? Is that a comic mashed with a play? Luke Healy’s Permanent

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May 24, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 3484 Views Avery Hill, Luke Healy, Permanent Press
Film 

Book Review: The Man Who Fell To Earth Drops Clarity On Roeg’s Sci-Fi Drama

The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of those films where you wait for the perfect conditions to view

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May 23, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 4097 Views Arrow Films, book, David Bowie, Nicolas Roeg, Samuel J. Umland, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis
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