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 By Mark Rodriguez Originally written on November 26, 2013. Keep in mind these reviews were done way back when the show first aired, so we had no idea what future events or movies would bring. Also, before it was retconned away, at least at the moment, the Agents of SHIELD show was in canon with the movies. We have another interesting episode with a bit of creepy dark horror movie-ish scenes, some good action, and yes, some insight on Melinda May's backstory. Why is she cold? Why is she called the Calvary and hates that nickname? Let's check it out. This episode opens with a seemingly regular blonde woman stepping into a grocery store somewhere in Utah. The store owner recognizes her as the supervisor for a lab and gets angry since one of his friends died during an accident she caused. The woman backs away and tries to leave but the manager continued to harass her. Just then, cans and things start flying at the man, hitting him. He asks if she's doing this and then a whole

 By Mark Rodriguez Originally written on Saturday, November 17, 2012. Keep in mind, these were our thoughts as they were back in 2012 when the show was new and was written shortly after seeing the episodes after their initial broadcast. At the time we had zero way of knowing what to expect. This is a totally epic episode that throws everything at once at the Turtles and mixes in several plot points. And yes, the Turtles finally have their first battle against the Shredder!!! Oddly enough this episode opens up with a mutant pigeon stalking April. Meanwhile, Donatello is showing the Turtles that he learned to make ninja smokebombs out of eggs. Mikey finds out and is impressed, using them to basically warp all over the place like Nightcrawler. April rushes in and tell them about the mutant pigeon that is after her.The Turtles decide to lure the pigeon out with April as bait so they can capture it. Just as they run out, Splinter stops them and tells them that they nothing about their ene

Written by Mark Rodriguez Match 1- Athena VS Mazzerati -Proving Grounds Match- Mazzerati goes for the roll up pin and Athena kicks out. Mazzerati grapples with her arm and tries to either pin or make her submit, but Athena reverses this into her own hold. Mazzerati slides out from underneath Athena to escape the hold. However, she wastes too much time showing off and doing jumping jacks that Athena is able to launch her towards the ropes with a flying dropkick. Athena picks up her opponent in a vertical position and just slams her down facefirst. The champ grabs Mazzerati and hangs her off the ropes, punching her across the back. Mazzerati shoves Athena back, making her fall off the apron. Mazzerati goes off the apron to grab Athena with a Hurricarana, but Athena holds onto her. The champ lifts her up and power bombs her into the unforgiving floor. Billie Starks is shocked.  Athena goes over to pick up Mazzerati and swings her into the stands. Athena throws her back into the ring and s

 By Mark Rodriguez So recently it has been announced that a brand new Dragonball series will be premiering in Fall 2024, and apparently Akira Toriyama himself is very excited about it. Much to everyone's surprise, it wasn't the long awaited continuation to Dragonball Super, but a whole new thing called Dragonball Daima. The trailer shows mysterious enemies that are able to see all of the events of Dragonball and Dragonball Z. For whatever reason they used the Dragonballs to turn Goku into a kid. This might sound similar to Dragonball GT, but this time the entire Dragonball cast has been turned into kids. Vegeta, Bulma, Krillin, Master Roshi, Android 18, Yamcha, Mr. Satan, the whole lot of them!!! Toriyama later explained that they must all venture to a brand new world in order to fix things. The big question here is.... what about the rest of Dragonball Super? Manga readers know that the story has moved beyond the Universal Survival Arc and have had two entire arcs with new cha

 By Mark Rodriguez This was an interesting manga I decided to check out back in 2016. Created by Tsuyoshi Watanabe, the story deals with the main character, Rintaro, who has a weird disease that has him risk dying of a heart attack if he gets turned on. He thought he was safe when he signed up to an all-male school... but it turned out to be a mostly all-female school. To top it off, these aren't ordinary schoolgirls, they are deadly fighters known as The Dragons and these three factions are at war with each other. Let's take a look. The story opens with Rintaro scaling the mountain-side that his new school is located on. He feels safe and has a flashback to when he was six years old. As a kid, Rintaro runs and trips, accidentally spilling his ice cream all over a woman's chest. His father rushes over and tells his son to apologize, but he is surprised to see Rintaro on the ground clutching his chest in pain. At the doctor's office, the nurse explains that Rintaro has a

 Written by Mark Rodriguez Originally written on November 20, 2013 Keep in mind these reviews were done way back when the show first aired, so we had no idea what future events or movies would bring. Also, before it was retconned away, at least at the moment, the Agents of SHIELD show was in canon with the movies. The episode opens up, which I would assume is a few days after the events of Thor's epic cinematic sequel. If you guys remember that University in Greenwhich that was kinda caught in the crossfire in the epic final battle between Thor and Malekith... yeah, it's up to Coulson's group to clean up the mess. Everyone is talking about Thor, in one way or another, and Skye wishes she could have gotten hands onto the Asgardian spaceship... and Thor. Meanwhile some park rangers run into some graffiti and decide to investigate. A pair of campers are wandering around the woods until they find a particular tree. They cut it down, which brings the attention of the park