(SPOILER ALERT: This is a full breakdown review for “With Friends Like These”) Welcome back, readers, for more discussion of Rooster Teeth’s fantasy anime-style web series, RWBY. Released on Rooster Teeth FIRST on January 25, “With Friends Like These,” Chapter 12 of Volume 7, would be a wonderful penultimate entry in this volume if not … Continue reading My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 12 – “With Friends Like These”
Month: January 2020
Project Super Nex – Chapter Five – Grammar Fanatic
My Mobular driver, Larson, is motoring out of Hexaber and then speeding west through the Trainore neighborhood. His stereo is blaring some twangy, plaintive country song; I never have to listen to any of that in Penelope’s truck. Sitting in the backseat, I distract myself by checking Walnut. My feed’s filled with news about the … Continue reading Project Super Nex – Chapter Five – Grammar Fanatic
My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 11 – “Gravity”
(SPOILER ALERT: This is a full breakdown review for “Gravity”) Welcome back, readers, for more discussion of Rooster Teeth’s fantasy anime-style web series, RWBY. Released on Rooster Teeth FIRST on January 18, “Gravity,” Chapter 11 of Volume 7, is an interesting episode that sends the finale in a new direction with its plethora of plot … Continue reading My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 11 – “Gravity”
My 2 Cents on Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid kicks off our year strongly with her winsome and thought-provoking debut novel, Such a Fun Age. Emira Tucker, a black twenty-five-year-old who lives in Philadelphia and recently graduated from Temple, babysits for a white, affluent married couple—Alix Chamberlain, lifestyle guru and blogger, and her husband Peter, a news anchor who becomes embroiled in a … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Such a Fun Age
My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 10 – “Out in the Open”
(SPOILER ALERT: This is a full breakdown review for “Out in the Open”) Welcome back, readers, for more discussion of Rooster Teeth’s fantasy anime-style web series, RWBY. Released on Rooster Teeth FIRST on January 11, “Out in the Open,” Chapter 10 of Volume 7, isn’t a spectacular example of how to set the finale in … Continue reading My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 10 – “Out in the Open”
Project Super Nex – Chapter Four – Paladin Gains Wings
A female voice, throaty and soulful and subdued, wafts out of the distance. The words are muffled . . . growing clearer . . . it’s a song, a forlorn one . . . But where am I? It’s dark, but I’m lying supine on cushioned surfaces. I imagine being on a bed that’s lost … Continue reading Project Super Nex – Chapter Four – Paladin Gains Wings
My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 9 – “As Above, So Below”
(SPOILER ALERT: This is a full breakdown review for “As Above, So Below”) Welcome back, readers! I hope you all enjoyed the holiday break and New Year’s. Now we’re getting back into Rooster Teeth’s fantasy anime-style web series, RWBY, and we will analyze “As Above, So Below,” Chapter 9 of Volume 7, released on Rooster … Continue reading My 2 Cents on RWBY: Volume 7, Chapter 9 – “As Above, So Below”