Iron Man: Origin (Tales of Suspense Issues 39 – 50) Review

Our look at the comic origins of Marvel characters actually comes to a close with Iron Man, leaving only the Avengers origin left on my list before we start heading into actual story arcs. Iron Man was a character who didn’t really click with a lot of people until Mr. Downey Jr. came along, I enjoyed the early 90s cartoon and I liked playing as him in the CAPCOM vs. fighting games, but even I didn’t really find him all that interesting for a lot of his early stories. Does this revisit to his very early days change that? Erm, well… sort of! It’s a mix of dull and often racist stories and fun and hilariously weird ones.. Let’s take a look!

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Dragon Ball Z – Saiyan Arc (Episodes 1 – 10) Review

It’s been a long time coming but after covering the whole of the original series it’s time to finally start covering Z. This is definitely one of those things I put up thinking “doesn’t the internet really need someone reviewing such an iconic series in 2025? What’s left to say?” Well… nothing really, but after covering the criminally under-looked original series I wasn’t going to leave it there! So let’s take a look at the first 10 episodes, because the Saiyan Arc is so comparatively short but I still wanted a consistent four-ish parts. Thanks to pacing issues future arcs will have higher episode chunks, I have no doubt…

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Doctor Who: Unknown Soldiers Review

I was looking forward to “Unknown Soldiers”, as I do for pretty much any War Doctor story, to be fair. The boxset has its moments and some of the cast really shine but others, um, not so much, especially a “Rocket Raccoon you have at home” that gets FAR too much attention in the last half of the story. Still, is there more good than bad? Well…

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Star Wars: The High Republic – Tears of the Nameless Review

Now I don’t normally read the YA novels of the High Republic, not because of some snobby turning my nose up at them thing (have you seen some of the other stuff I cover on this site?) just a lack of time thing, but given the large gap between the core adult novels and hearing that “Tears of the Nameless” has some key connections to the overall High Republic storyline I decided to dive in to the admittedly long-as-hell novel, and although there were some parts that I felt could’ve been trimmed it was overall a really good read and full of yet more enjoyable High Republic storylines new and old. Let’s take a look!

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Persona 3: Reload – Episode Aigis (PS5) Review

(My Review of Persona 3: Reload proper can be found by clicking HERE!)

I don’t normally dedicate a separate review for DLC expansions, the one exception so far being the Yuffie DLC for Final Fantasy VII: Remake, but “Episode Aigis: The Answer” took me roughly 20 hours to complete, making it just as if not longer than a lot of games featured on the site. Plus there are some things I want to say about both the game and story that can’t really fit into Persona 3: Reload’s DLC section, so this seemed like the best choice! Let’s take a look.

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Doctor Who: Deadly Strangers – The Gloaming Review

Finishing off the “Deadly Strangers” set then is a story featuring the return of The Mara, well, sort of anyway. It takes place in a clinic where people are sent to a deep sleep for many years at a time and so the idea of the Mara invading people’s dreams while they’re kept under is a good, it’s just sadly the story really isn’t all that interesting. Ah well, let’s take a look!

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Castlevania: Nocturne – Season 2 Review

The still-weird-its-a-thing Castlevania animated show returns for a second season of “Nocturne”, creating a new story with some of the Castlevania game characters from the 1700s as well as entirely new ones. This time there was less focus on character backstory and more focus on really great action, which given it was essentially the second half of a story makes a lot of sense! Let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: Deadly Strangers – Puccini and The Doctor & Women’s Day Off Review

The next set of Eighth Doctor / Charley / Audacity stories has arrived (or did a short while ago…) and with it an interesting titbit: the first story in the set, “Puccini and The Doctor”, was written by Matthew Jacobs, the man who wrote the TV Movie and therefore created the Eighth Doctor, returning to the franchise for the first time since then. It’s a good thing it has such an interesting behind-the-scenes bit of info because I have to say the set as a whole is rather average or in one case flat-out bad, so there isn’t a lot to talk about otherwise…

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Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War (Episodes 27 – 40) Review

The adaptation of Bleach’s final story arc fully reaches the point in the manga where Tite Kubo clearly began to rush and the story suffered greatly as a result, a few long-awaited Bankai being the only real highlight, but is the anime any different? Well, yes! Kubo has had a direct hand in the creation of this “cour”, more so than the others, showing how he clearly knows how weak the original is and has sought to improve it, and improve it he has! Plus one of the long-awaited Bankai was still adapted (the other will land in Cour 4) and adapted really well, so bonus point all around! Let’s take a look…

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Review

To tell you the truth “Skeleton Crew” wasn’t something I was looking forward to, from its vague announcement to the first trailer and beyond nothing really clicked with me. I knew I’d give it a proper go because I love Star Wars and about half way through the series I realised that I was actually enjoying it, and then by the end it was up there with the higher end of live action Star Wars programming. It’s just pure fun, not bogged down in continuity (not that I don’t love continuity references…) or serious story telling (not that I also don’t love that either!) and instead just tells a good family adventure story. Let’s take a look!

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