Time to look at the second half of the Egghead arc, which has a hell of a flashback story mixed in with plenty of over-the-top action and some leaps forward in terms of the overarching plot that has been teased for the last few DECADES. Very pretty to look at too, though there were plenty of recap episodes and breaks to allow this, something that will hopefully vanish now One Piece is switching to a seasonal model at long last. Anyway, let’s take a look!
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“Merlin’s Trap” was the big draw for this Halloween set as it’s the debut of Jon Culshaw’s Twelfth Doctor impersonation, and thankfully while not as perfect as his Brig it’s miles better than Jacob Dudman’s attempt, so I’ll happily take it given the Twelfth Doctor era is a personal favourite of mine. Ignoring that aspect though, is the story any good? It’s… fine, doesn’t break any new ground etc but I will say at least they got the horror aspect a bit more involved here. Let’s take a look!
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Okay, after a couple of final things in the High Republic line we now arrive at the actual true finale, and given it’s just a single comic issue this is going to be a rather short review… Still, it wraps up a few things and gives us a nice warm send off to something that I’ve absolutely loved the past few years and am genuinely sad to see it go (but also happy it got all the way to its planned ending, and a good one too!) So let’s take a look!
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The next story in the Halloween boxset (skipping over Doctor-less spin-offs for my wallet’s sake) is an Eighth Doctor / Audacity story that focuses on the classic “children’s folklore comes to life” idea but with the folklore of an alien tree-like species instead. It’s a perfectly good one-hour story but once again it feels more sci-fi than horror, which given the whole idea of this Halloween boxset was “spooky stories for Halloween” is a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, lets take a closer look…
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Kicking off a Halloween-themed boxset of stories (in January, if you needed a tip off as to how behind on Big Finish audio reviews I am…) is “Sea Smoke”, my first full experience of the recast First Doctor / Dodo combination, and I have to say… it didn’t do much to convince me to jump in. I mean, at the best of times I’m not all that interested in Hartnell era audios as I’m not all that interested in a fair few of the Hartnell era TV stories, but having some of the poorer recasts at the centre doesn’t help much. Anyway, let’s take a look at “Sea Smoke” on its own merits…
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So here we are at the end of My Hero Academia’s Final Arc. Due to a lot of the side plots being covered in the previous chunk of episodes this review isn’t going to be super long, especially the pre-spoiler bit, but hey-ho! Let’s take a look at the finale of one of the bigger hits for Shonen Jump in some time.
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The Third Doctor Adventures press on with a rather odd story that tries to blend classic pulpy sci-fi with World War II drama and ends up weakening both tried-and-true Who staples. That’s not to say “Operation: Vengeance” isn’t without merit, it has some great scenes with the Brigadier and The Doctor, but at six parts there is more dull than interesting… Let’s take a look!
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After enjoying the first volume of this Dragon Quest spin-off manga I was happy to also get the opportunity to review the second volume, which can be found by clicking HERE.
Basically its got a bit more of an edge to it, and doesn’t involve a long training arc, thankfully…
Time to catch up with the MCU and talk about “First Steps”, finally introducing an MCU version of The Fantastic Four… sort of. The film takes place in another universe entirely, presumably explaining why they haven’t appeared before now and due to the events of Doomsday/Secret Wars will be integrated into the MCU proper at that point. Due to this distance from the MCU though they decided to create a much more comic-accurate version of the super team and world they inhabit, which was really fun. Let’s take a look…
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The “Wicked!” boxset’s second and third story sadly aren’t much better than the first one, which given the interesting premise of the boxset is a bit of a downer. Each story looks at the young Ace from a different perspective, which is a good thing to do with the box’s premise, but they don’t offer any interesting plot on top of it which makes them just dull stories that happen to feature a young Ace in them. Oh well, let’s take a look!
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