Mark of the Fool (Book 4): Alex Finally Runs Into a Wall He Can’t Loophole
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 4 by J.M. Clarke, where Alex Roth hits the actual limits of his power and has to find his own way around them.
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 4 by J.M. Clarke, where Alex Roth hits the actual limits of his power and has to find his own way around them.
A review of Beyond the Rift by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The series finale sticks the landing, mostly, then runs out of pages to close it properly.
A review of Behind the Veil by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Book three is where the alien plot finally pays off, and it’s the best entry yet.
The last post in the Doomsday rewatch. A separate universe, a frightened Reed Richards and a child on the board all turn out to be exactly the point.
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 3 by J.M. Clarke, where the Games of Roal tournament arc delivers real stakes instead of the filler it could have been.
Rewatching Thunderbolts before Avengers Doomsday, where the team holding the Avengers name and the most powerful character in the MCU are both unsolved problems.
Rewatching Captain America Brave New World ahead of Avengers Doomsday, where the adamantium subplot finally looks like deliberate setup rather than filler.
Rewatching Deadpool and Wolverine before Avengers Doomsday, where the Fox handover and one Comic-Con announcement turned out to matter far more than the plot.
Rewatching The Marvels before Avengers Doomsday. Marvel put its first real step toward the X-Men crossover at the end of its least-watched film.
Betrayed By The Hero’s Party has a lovely cozy LitRPG concept and prose that reads like it came out of a machine. Both of those things are true at once.
Rewatching Loki season 2 before Avengers Doomsday. He is the reason the multiverse still exists, and nobody has mentioned him in three years.
Rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before Avengers Doomsday, where staying out of the multiverse machinery turns out to be the reason it still works.
Antdustrial Revolution swaps conquest for trade deals and world-building. A slower Chrysalis, and a bridge to whatever the fifth stratum turns into.
Rewatching Quantumania before Avengers Doomsday. It was built to launch a decade of Kang, that decade was cancelled, and the film is now a museum piece.
Rewatching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before Avengers Doomsday. The treaty I disliked in 2022 turns out to be the most useful thing in the film.
Rewatching Thor: Love and Thunder before Avengers Doomsday. It set up three things in 2022 and four years later not one of them went anywhere.
Rewatching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before Doomsday. It said incursion out loud in 2022 and nobody was really listening.
Rewatching Shang-Chi before Avengers Doomsday. Five years on, the rings are still broadcasting to something and nobody has ever said what.
Rewatching Loki season 1 before Avengers Doomsday. The doubts about Kang turned out to be shared by Marvel itself, and Sylvie’s choice reads very differently now.
A review of Through the Storm by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Great Lynn material, but the middle book trades the alien plot for fame, bullying and doxing.
Rewatching WandaVision before Avengers Doomsday. A grief story with a hopeful ending turned out to be the first step toward the whole multiverse.