Title: Wicked – The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Author: Gregory Maguire Year of Publication: 1995 Genre: Fantasy/Fiction Length: 406 pages; small font, large book, not a quick read. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: The Wizard of Oz is a classic story, whether you saw the film […]
Count me out of the Civil War Bandwagon
(spoilers ahead for Marvel’s Civil War series, specifically #4)
Review: Straight Outta Lynwood
After last Sunday’s premier of a Robot Chicken episode that featured a Weird Al video, the Adult Swim bump said something to the effect of: “If you took a time machine back to 1986 and said, in 20 years, Micheal Jackson = flamed out, Weird Al = still relevant, we’d have laughed our asses off.” […]
Review – PLAY! A Videogame Symphony
August 4th, 2006 – Imagine yourself in my place. Sitting through your last of three semesters of music history, finally having come to the 20th century. You’ve covered the greats – Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms – composers who have inspired young minds to pursue music for centuries. And yet you find yourself wondering – when […]
Critical-Hits pwns Infinite Crisis
Watch as we ramble our way through DC’s mega-crossover event, years in the making. We assume that you’ve read Infinite Crisis, so beware of spoilers if that matters to you. Our reviewers are: Bartoneus: Buys primarily Marvel. “The Civil War open was 3x more refined then the entire run of Infinite Crisis. That’s right, that […]
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Back in 1997 Square released Final Fantasy VII for the original Playstation which was not only the first of the series to be rendered using 3d graphics, but it was also the first to leave the sumptuous womb of Nintendo consoles. It quickly became many players’ favorite of all Final Fantasies, and as with almost […]
She's got a Ticket to Ride (Marklin)
We have a new featured boardgame, and it’s Ticket to Ride: Marklin, the newest in Alan Moon’s easy to play, difficult to master train series. Why did I select it as a featured game? Tickets and Passengers!
Critical-Hits pwns Video Games : Oblivion
Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen to the first installment of Critical-Hits pwns Video Games with Bartoneus and Joshx0rfz. We present to you here something that will mystify, mesmerize, sanitize, maximize, hypnotize, prioritize, and in every way satisfy your senses, a tangental review of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion! The following is an e-mail correspondence between Bartoneus and […]
Enter Oblivion
Enter Oblivion and welcome the dearth of posts it brings. Enter not 3rd person, you will realize how foolish and insipid your character looks when he moves! Fear the horse, for it is slow and unwieldy. Enter not 3rd person whilst riding upon thy horse, you will notice again how foolish and insipid your character […]
POWERS: Psychotic
Powers Graphic Novel # 9: Collecting Volume 2 Issues 7-12 What can I say about Powers? It’s one of the best written comics I know of, or at least one of my favorites, and certainly the only currently ongoing comic I actively seek out.
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