Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 60 - Apple Family Reunion

The Story

Apples from all across Equestria are coming to Ponyville to celebrate their family reunion. To help Granny Smith take it easy and enjoy the reunion, Applejack takes over planning and organizing the reunion. But good intentions go overboard when she plans every single minute of the reunion, without giving anyone any time to enjoy each other's company.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 59 - Wonderbolt Academy

The Story

Rainbow Dash's dream is finally within grasp, as she is accepted into the Wonderbolt Academy. At first everything seems to be going well. But then Rainbow is made wing pony to another pegasus, Lightning Dust, who is just as good as Dash, only a lot more reckless. Things start to go downhill as Lightning's dangerous attitude almost gets the other cadets hurt.

Graphic Novel Reviews: The Dark Knight 013

The Story
The Scarecrow exposes Batman to an even more potent toxin, causing him to live out the life he could have live had he turned to the light rather than the darkness when his parents died. The toxin causes him to confront his very essence. Batman confronts his future, the fact that he fears human contact more than anything. While at the same time we get to see more of Scarecrow's past, and how he was trapped in a pit filled with corpses and gruesome mannequins. Finally, Batman is able to escape and confront Scarecrow.

The Review
Out of all the Batman stories, this is by far the creepiest. I may not enjoy the macabre all the time, but every once in a while it can spice up a dark story just right. What surprised me most about this issue is how little actually happened. There weren't any big action scenes, and the plot didn't really progress out of the one room. But I love this kind of storytelling. Taking a chapter to focus on what makes Batman who he is was incredibly enjoyable.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 58 - Sleepless in Ponyville

The Story
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle go camping with their big sisters and Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo tries to impress Rainbow with how tough she is, a feat made all the tougher by Rainbow's scary campfire stories. Scootaloo tries to stay up at night to escape from her nightmares, but falls asleep anyway. In one of Scootaloo's dreams, Princess Luna saves her from the headless horse. Luna tells Scootaloo that she needs to face her true fear.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 57 - Magic Duel

The Story
Trixie returns with the alicorn amulet, an object that gives her untold power, and she uses it to get revenge on Twilight. After Trixie drives Twilight from Ponyville it's up to the purple unicorn and her friends to figure out a way to defeat Trixie.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 56 - One Bad Apple

The Story
When Apple Bloom's cousin, Babs Seed comes to visit, Apple Bloom is at first excited to have a new friend. But Babs soon turns out to be a bully when she joins Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon in harassing the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

Cartoon Reviews: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Episode 55 - Too Many Pinkie Pies

The Story
When Pinkie realizes that there is too much fun going around for just one pony, she uses a secret pool to make a duplicate of herself. When the duplicate realizes there is more fun than just two Pinkies can have, she decides to make more and more copies. But these copies care for nothing but having fun, and soon Ponyville is overrun with Pinkie Pies.

Graphic Novel Reviews: Catwoman 013

The Story

Catwoman is hired to move a giant chess piece to a designated location. After completing her job she realizes that a woman is trapped inside the chess piece, and that another piece, a pawn, has a child in it and is about to be sacrificed. She manages to save the child, but the woman in the Queen dies in the explosion.

The Review
I've been pretty positive about Catwoman overall, with the exception of the first issue and issue zero. But this...well this was just incomprehensible. The first half is understandable at least, but the moment the chess pieces come into play I lost the thread. Coming back to the story a second time allows it to make a little more sense, but my initial impression remains very confused.

First of all...giant chess pieces? Really? I don't even have any specific complaint about this, it's just so nonsensical. And the fact that it is so nonsensical damages the entire rest of the plot. I forget about everything that happens the moment I reach that end.

Graphic Novel Reviews: Nightwing 013

The Story

Nightwing's investigation on Lady Shiva leads him to discover that a small time gangster has hired a squad of men to murder the assassin upon arrival. Even though Shiva most certainly deserves death for the crimes she's commited, Nightwing goes to stop the attack, only to discover that she has arrived in Gotham, but not by the means everyone thought she would.

The Review
First off, if you've noticed that the plot summaries on these reviews have been somewhat short, that's because while I consider some kind of plot synopsis is necessary, I don't put that much weight on them. I like to keep the spoilers in more or less the same place so anyone that doesn't want to know what actually happens in the book doesn't have to watch out for spoilers during the review itself. And considering that I don't really feel like summarizing every little thing that happens, you end up with only a few lines. If you like your reviews with plot summaries, I apologize for the shortness of mine, but I probably won't be doing more than the most basic of summaries anytime soon.

Anime Reviews: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 002 - A Letter From the Past

The Story
Seven years later and Jojo and Dio are now close friends. Or at least so it seems to others. On the inside Jojo knows that the friendship is not true, while Dio revels in his deceit of everyone, while preparing to take control of the Joestar estate.