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Star Wars The High Republic Issue 2 and Adventures Comic Review - Februa...

Hafa Adai! Today I'm taking a look at, Star Wars: The High Republic Issue 2, and Star Wars: High Republic Adventures Issue 1.Are they good? Are they bad? Maybe a little of both? Let's find out.

We'll start with our issue number one, Star Wars high Republic Adventures was actually a fun book. I liked the art style, and what's fun about this book is that as a children's book -  it's even got the Disney branding down on the bottom - as a children's book it really does feel like an 80s children adventure.

 It has the same sense of youthful danger that draws us into things like Stranger Things, or the goonies. 

This is a tale about Padawans' and it's both refreshing and cool to get that kind of swashbuckling adventure that doesn't totally pull the punches. There's a lot of violence in this book, the characters are well developed,  I'd have say my favorite character thus far is probably Qort and I don't really have a reason for that other than I think he looks cool. The main characters in this book are Lula, Farzala, Qort are joined by Zeen and Krix and are all given enough space to develop without having too much exposition. 

The artwork is really good in most places, I am happy to say this is a star wars book where I can say the scale of Yoda is pretty good...but the look of Yoda is not that great they really like it's weird because they kept all the lines in the face but they softened them up something is off about it. 

I enjoyed this book and my daughter enjoyed this book she didn't get lost when we were reading it together so that is a big plus when I'm looking at adventure titles.

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When it comes to High Republic issue number two...well this wasn't a bad issue...it introduces some really really cool concepts there's a pair of twin characters and those two are really, really cool. They're  twins that share the same mind and if one gets hurt the other one feels it. It's a really cool dynamic I'm excited to see  unfold. The stuff going on with Sskeer is really cool it builds on to the the last page of issue one. 

I had no issues really with the story, it features some callbacks to the Hutts, and other recognizable Star Wars tech and lore so you can feel like a big ol' nerd when you recognize it. 

I'll tell you what I didn't care for in this book, this book is the opposite of what Adventures did. Adventures used color to great effect, with lots of contrast things that really helped the book to stand out. The artwork looks good but it's got some issues with the inking. There's not as much dynamics in the inking, and without the variations in line work, characters like Sskeer loose their oomph because they're lizards so they look messy when all the scales are the same line weight. The coloring is also kind of muddy with not enough variation in shades of green and brown; otherwise, the book is pretty good i definitely am going to pick it up if it continues this level of storytelling I'll keep it in the pull.

Reviewing STAR WARS The High Republic Issue 1 | Marvel Comics New Releas...

Today I'm taking a look at Star Wars: The High Republic Issue One! Is it good? Is it bad? Maybe a little of both that's what we're going to find out right here! 

Star Wars: The High Republic #1

The Artwork  

First and foremost I'm going to take a minute and talk about the beautiful cover from Phil Noto because I really... really... like it this looks like a book jacket which is great because you're trying to build that synergy between the novels the comic books and leading into the television show trying to build that buzz build that marketing this was a great great cover you can't really tell through the digital screen but if you look at it's very textured it looks like really really nice watercolor there's kind of a grittiness in the watercolor there's like like you splash brown dots I mean it looks really good looks aged looks uh looks exactly like uh like what I would want if I was looking at something chronicling a time 200 years in the past. 

First and foremost I'm going to take a minute and talk about the beautiful cover from Phil Noto because I really... really... like it

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Ario does a really good job with the artwork on the inside, it is well drawn in the same way that every Star Wars book that has come out since the early 2000s is. If I were to go and grab one of the trades and and hold it up you're not going to notice a huge difference it's very cleanly executed but it lacks style, in all but one page. There is one page where the main character is using the force and it's imaginative and psychedelic and I wish they did more of this in this book and less dialogue balloons. The book is super dialogue heavy. I don't know if that's because it's coming off of the world of the novels going into comic books and then trying to transition into maybe a dialogue heavy television show um but there's a lot of dialogue and its up to the artist to not overcrowd the story with the visuals. There's one place one place where the art really betrays itself this mild spoilers but doesn't really impact the plot it's just a cameo, but it's in the way they draw Yoda.  The problem with drawing Yoda is he never looks to scale, now they were smart they tried to shoot up on him so that it didn't look quite as bad. He's still out of scale his anatomy looks wrong he looks like in child's play when it's a dude in the Chucky suit instead of the animatronic.

The coloring by Annalisa Leoni and the inking from Mark Morales are where this book shine. It features a ton of varying line weights and lots of washing. The coloring shifts from really dark, deep, rich, blacks to going really light . I love... love when people aren't afraid to use contrast to its full effect and they use that in spades in this book, and not just from lights to darks but also using complementary colors. This book is very green and blue and the areas where it's really green they use lots of really really strong purples really strong pinks, complementary colors and bright pops. Nothing in this book is muddy.

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The Verdict

As I said there's a lot of dialogue, and luckily the dialogue itself is fine. Scott does a good job of establishing the characters, their personality and interpersonal dynamics through their dialogue, they don't beat you over the head with a lot of exposition. The plot is pretty minimal though, not a lot of ground is covered as it is mostly setup with one big reveal at the end.

This book is a solid 3.5 out of 5 

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Marvel's The Defenders Review | Chamorros Watching TV

Hafa adai and welcome to Chamorro Cinema! Today I'm talking The Defenders, Netflix's valiant attempt to craft an Avengers style team on the small screen. Was it good? Bad? Maybe a little of both? Let's discuss Marvel's The Defenders!

All right,  I admit it, I'm a fanboy. I love all things comics. Whether it's TV, Movies, cheesy holiday specials or even (believe it or not) actual honest to goodness comic books I can't get enough of the stuff.

On the TV front, I think Marvel has been trailing behind DC for a while now. DC has a whole slew of successful shows that aren't afraid to create their own immersive worlds and aside from avoiding a few sacred cows they are allowed to play in there own low budget sandbox. The Arrowverse and Gotham have really done a fantastic job at being their own thing and creating their own mythology. 

Marvel's shows trump the CW in sharp visuals and budgets; however, the shows seem like that annoying kid, who swears up and down that they are secret best friends with the most popular kid in school, they slavishly, and at times annoyingly, refer to their awesome best friend, even though the best friend refuses to acknowledge them publicly. Marvel has the tough job of trying to tie in the TV shows without messing up the secret sauce that is keeping the film universe pumping out the hits. 

The Netflix shows have taken a different approach, they keep things street level and barely acknowledge the films. I think it's that independence from the main MCU has made them far better received than their network brethren. They have been stylish, edgy and violent. Not quite hard R but definately   harder than PG-13. 

I think it was a valiant effort starting off strong with Daredevil. Wilson Fisk was an engaging villain the fights were brutal and Matt Murdock's guilty conscience made for some interesting drama. The show was a few episodes too long and could've done better without the Stick and Hand stuff. The show worked best when it was more street level and less...comic booky...I know blasphemous right.

Daredevil season two is where things start to go a little bit off the rails.  Daredevil season 2 had a tremendous first half, with the anti-hero Frank Castle squaring off with Matt Murdock and really challenging his commitment to non-lethal crime fighting which perfectly mirrors Matt's crisis of faith which is a central theme to the show...then the Hand show up and the show starts it's steady decline. The Hand is just boring...it feels forced and the show suffers for it.


Netflix continued with it's strongest series to date, Jessica Jones. Killgrave is far and away my favorite MCU villain and his relationship with the PTSD addled Jessica is creepy and really draws you in. Jessica Jones did a great job introducing Luke Cage and superpowers into the mix without beating you over the head with it. In fact you could remove the superpowers from Jessica and the show would still be awesome. The subplot with Nuke was the weakest part of the series and like Daredevil's Elektra subplot seems to be shoehorned in for both fan service and to set up something else down the line.

Going into Luke Cage, again it starts off strong, I really enjoyed the music, the style and social commentary. I feel like Mike Colter did a great job portraying the main character, he is probably my favorite Netflix casting choice. The first halfs villains Cottonmouth and Mariah were perfect, but once they get replaced by Shades and Diamondback it started to lose me. It was just trying too much  to tie everything together, all the villains have to be interconnected to the main character. There was also a problem that Luke Cage never really feels like he's in any real danger at all. The show invents some Chitauri/Hammer tech bullets to raise the stakes but as X-Men Origins taught us magic bullets never help the narrative.


Iron Fist was really poorly done. Not only was the casting way off, and I'm not talking about white-washing I honestly don't mind the fact that Danny Rand is a white dude...he's always been a white dude. Finn Jones just was not good as the character. I didn't buy him as a great martial artist or as a man trained to be some great warrior he seemed like an aloof stoner to me. Like all the Netflix series it really should be 6-8 episodes. The villains are once again The Hand. For a group of evil ninja assassins they are just kinda boring. Colleen Wing is introduced and proves herself to be a much stronger protagonist than the title character. This entire season did very little to make me a believer in this series.


After a disappointing Iron Fist and a ho-hum ending to both Daredevil season 2 and Luke Cage I really was hoping for a better outing in The Defenders than what we got. The series opens with Iron Fist and Colleen fighting a woman in the sewers and then goes through the obligatory introductions of the main characters...unfortunately it then takes 4 episodes before they get together. The villains are the Hand led by Sigourney Weaver are forgettable at best and un-intimating at worst. truly a disappointing team up in a world of Avengers