Super Tuesday Recap - Comic Book & TV Show Reviews

Kara is back in National City ( or is she? The jury is still out on that ) and she’s returned from the Phantom Zone with her father, Zor-El. After years in the Phantom Zone and still riddled with guilt over the death of his home planet, Papa El is determined to make sure that Earth’s climate crisis is averted. This is one of those times where even  Supergirl ‘s ever-present...

Legends has been on a roll with these last few episodes. This show has always done a great job of juggling the ridiculous with the serious and giving us great character development and this episode highlights that. Everyone (the audience and the Legends) know that Bishop can’t be trusted yet the show does a great job bringing that into doubt. First with him really getting to Ava and second a...

Once again we’re back with what could be considered the perfect Legends episode. You get ridiculous hijinks with real serious character moments. It’s what this show does so well.  First, the Legends are bored and nothing ever good happens when they’re bored. Second, they decide to fill that boredom with a board game Gary brought. It’s Gary. Everyone should have known b...

One thing you have to admire the Arrowverse shows for is how they give opportunities for their actors to get behind the camera and direct some episodes. And even better, those episodes are usually pretty good. The Final Frame is Jes Macallan’s (Ava) first shot as a director and it’s pretty well done. This is the first Legends episode back after a big break and the show picks up where i...

It’s the end of July so it’s time for another Mailbag episode. Kriss and Dpalm go through listener emails and the latest news. This time we’re talking about James Gunn saving DC from Warner Brothers with The Suicide Squad, Black Widow’s Disney+ numbers and the Scarlett Johannsson lawsuit. Kriss and Dpalm record the Mailbag at the end of every month. If you want to send in y...

This season of The Flash had to overcome a lot. The last season ended early due to Covid and that meant losing 3-4 episodes of this season to wrap that up. Then there was the fact that they shot this season in the middle of a pandemic which brings a ton of new set of restrictions and problems to overcome. We say all that to say that while this season definitely had it’s issues, considering e...

We’re doubling up on the reviews since we missed a week. We’re reviewing episodes 9 & 10 and both are filled with the mix of ridiculousness and serious character introspection we’ve come to expect from Legends of Tomorrow.  Nate is still the greatest. 100% on the Nate train Gus Gus might be discount Beebo but he’s still adorable…until he grows into an angsty...

Overall this season of the Flash has had its ups and downs. But it’s important to remember that this was also a shortened season affected by Covid. That said, this episode before the 2-part finale does a lot but that’s not necessarily bad. We didn’t like what they did with Ultraviolet this episode. Felt like they fridged her right after an episode where they saved her. We’r...

We’re back with a new Mailbag episode. We’re reading listener emails from May and June this episode since we took a little break. We’re also covering some of the big news items that have come out over the last two months.  Including: WarnerMedia and Discovery forming a new company…guess that HBOMax gamble didn’t pay off…or diid it Just give James Gunn the k...

Captain Nate Heywood? Look…we’re willing to have the conversation. Kriss has officially joined the Nate club. Nate has become a responsible Legend and it was weird at first but suits him so well.  Aside from that, this was a “classic Legends romp” all the way down to the mishaps (And Rory sitting it out). It feels kinda meta because a classic Legends episode always tur...

The Flash has been doing great the last few episodes. This episode (despite the awkward Iris absence) brings Barry back into focus and does a pretty good job. This is the Barry we like. The Barry that is confident and tries to protect his family and friends. It’s also good to see Godspeed back and where they could be going with this. Dpalm has a theory about that. This episode was good that...

It feels like this Season of The Flash is getting back on track after a pretty horrible run in the middle. One of the interesting reasons for this is, the less Barry & Iris we get, the better the show has been. Now that’s not to say that Barry & Iris are the problem and are terrible and need to go. No, the problem has been the writing for both characters. This show struggles when it...

Gotta love how Legends of Tomorrow mixes the serious with the ridiculous. We get the crew coming up with the most ridiculous plan to save Sara (which turns out to be how she got kidnapped to begin with) while also getting very real moments tied to the theme of “What makes us who we are?”. Past Sara gives some really solid advice to Spooner and then her future self gets that same type o...

So two episodes back from the break and it really feels like The Flash is getting back to the show we want. This episode, Chester officially takes over as the new man in the chair and with that comes the predictable stumbles. But this is also the show we expect. With Barry helping Cecile face her demons and Iris helping Chester realize that he is a valued member of the team and he doesn’t ha...

Ok let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first. One, this episode feels like it probably should have been at least 2 episodes. The pace is all over the place and it’s overstuff with different story elements. Also, we’re still not feeling Spooner. It feels like each episode they’re workshopping the character to see what will work. To be fair though, this isn’t the fir...

When things aren’t looking good, play the hits. It’s always a good way to get your loyal fanbase back onboard. And with that in mind we can say that after the little break and this latest episode, The Flash hasn’t completely lost us. It wasn’t looking good there for a minute. The last two episodes before this weren’t that good and really had us worried. But this episo...

It’s hard to put our finger on it or explain it but somehow this super weird ass episode was so on-brand and ridiculous and over-the-top and we loved it while the episode before it was a little bit “too weird” for us. But that doesn’t make any sense when you have an episode about Aleister Crowley being trapped in a painting and switching places with John Constantine, the en...

What the Hell was that? Seriously. What the Hell is going on with The Flash? We got a bit excited when we saw they were taking from the Williamson run and doing the Force War. There was so much potential with that story, particularly with dealing with Barry and bringing Family back together. And instead we get a two part, contradictory storyline that makes absolutely no sense. First it was the For...

They’ve finally done it. Legends has finally done an episode that is so ridiculous that it even gave us pause. Maybe part of that was the really TERRIBLE JFK impersonation. Then there was the literal football game over the nuclear football in the White House. And then there’s the fact that…we’re really not feeling Spooner. We get it. The new person on the Waverider always r...

Who knew that Director Sharpe tasted like chicken? Of course it would be Gary to figure out first that the people after him and Sara were actually Ava clowns and of course he ate a few (It’s going to take a while to get used to Gary being an alien). That’s the great thing about Legends. We have no idea where any of the stuff is going with Sara and Gary but we’re fully invested. A...

Episode 10 of Season 7 of  The Flash (Family Matters Part 1) is a bit of a frustrating and disappointing episode. Yes, this season is doing a great job of sticking to the theme of family and making it connect to all the characters on the show. We’re also happy with the adaptation this season is doing with the Williamson run. That said, this episode was disappointing because it feels lik...

We are back to get Kara out of the Phantom Zone with Zor El and Nxy!  That said, we are also on hiatus until August when the show comes back.  The episodes were entertaining, but predictable, leading us to wonder if we finally got the slump the show never had before in the six seasons that it’s been improving.  The best episodes were the Back to the Future ones with Brainy and Nia being cent...

Gotta hand it to Iris and Barry. They take the approach of “Go Big or Go Home” when it comes to bad ideas. First, Iris really gotta stop calling the Speed Force ‘Nora’. That’s not Barry’s mom. Clearly. Also, while we appreciate the optimism and desire to save people/things, not everyone can be saved. When the Speed Force not only admits to manipulating Barry to...

Never ask what’s in the secret sauce. Never. It never ends well and you’re never going to want to know the answer. As always, what makes Legends of Tomorrow so good is that it’s able to be absolutely ridiculous, while also having serious moments. Sure it’s easy to focus on the ridiculous things like the not-Mothra Mothra (complete with Godzilla roar), the not-so-subtle shot...

If you can’t trust the God-like being that gave you your super powers and is currently occupying a form that looks like your murdered mother, then who can you trust? Gotta say, it was no surprise that the Speed Force has its own motives and methods for dealing with the other forces. Barry’s always been skeptical and has been saying that something seems different. The question is why an...