Author Archives: Sean Scott Maguire

This is a decent story from a publisher that understands exactly who its target audience is. I look forward to seeing what will happen to our hero next. This is the first Zenescope comic I've read that has a hero instead of a heroine, so it's not as Read More

This is a fitting finale because it personifies the duality of Smallville: sometimes this season makes your über-geek feel all warm and shiny, and sometimes it sucks rotten duck eggs. This episode is a microcosm of that duality. It hits the highs and Read More

With only two episodes left before the season finale, Smallville has a lot of loose ends to tie up. But they decided not to do it in this installment. Read More

I have previously commented that I like the Kandor backstory. This may be the episode that changes my mind. The problem has to do with all the other subplots and characters that are crowding out the central appeal of the Kandorian and Kryptonian backstory. Read More

This week's installment starts with Lois, dressed in a sexy bunny outfit (of course) popping out of a giant cake. Obviously, she's undercover. When she emerges from the cake, we realize that the crooked DA Ray Sacks, who we first met in that early Read More

When they outsource galaxy-saving to the cheap labor on the outskirts of the galaxy (they would have gotten away with it, to, with that clone army, if that damn Obi-Wan Kenobi hadn't gotten involved), what will the Jedi do? How will they repackage their Read More

This installment marked the return of Metallo, the Kryptonite powered cyborg we first met in Smallville episode 9.02 (appropriately titled “Metallo”). Read More

I’ve been saying in almost every review of this ongoing adaptation that I am going to read the original source material. Last issue I finally got off my ass and into the library. I have to say that, having read the novel, the graphic adaptation seems to Read More

I enjoyed the recent Star Trek reboot movie, but the movie created a new villain out of thin air. Don't get me wrong, Eric Bana as Nero had a great performance. But we already have so many awesome villains in the Star Trek universe. Can't we explore Read More

Call it a pet peeve, or call it a personality quirk, but there's one phenomenon that is really starting to get on my nerves: forcing foreign actors to cover up their accents when they are hired for Hollywood movies or TV shows. It's time to let actors Read More

This is basically a great installment. There's a plot twist. There's suspense. There's a cliffhanger. I don't like the cliffhanger part, since I now have to find wait weeks to find out what happens next. But it's good storytelling, that's for sure. Read More

Why is it that Tiger got in trouble for his co-ed adventures, but Dennis Rodman built an entire career on his? Why can other superstars avoid career threatening situations while Tiger walks blindly into them? What's the secret they have learned that Read More