Buffy season 8 finale

Season eight of Buffy the Vampire Slayer wrapped up this week as we got a glimpse of what is to coming in season nine and dealt with the repercussions of last few pages of last issue. While I won’t spoil anything for those who haven’t gotten to the store to read it yet, I will discuss the season in general so fear not you are safe to read on. I found the ending to be a bit sad and not anywhere near as uplifting as the end of the TV series that I will discuss later. I will talk about one minor plot point that I feel a need to comment on because I feel it was fixing a problem from the final TV season. So with that in mind you should judge for your self whether to continue reading this review.

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DC Direct Mon El Review

December has inadvertently turned into action figure month here at Analog so I thought I’d continue the theme with this week’s arrival of the New Krypton figures from DC Direct. If you have been reading this blog you might believe that I have suddenly made the jump completely over to the dark side that is Mattel from DC Direct but that is not quite the case.

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Mattel's Ultra Humanite Review

Today we reach the last in our series of reviews on the Wal-Mart exclusive wave as we take a look at the collect and connect figure of the Ultra Humanite. I couldn’t wait to get this figure when it was announced and was a little disappointed to find out that the wave was going to be exclusive to Wal-Mart.

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Mattel's Alan Scott

As we get to the last figure I will be reviewing in the Ultra Humanite wave from Wal-Mart we get to one of my favorite characters of Alan Scott the original Green Lantern. I’m not sure when I was first exposed to Alan but am sure it was likely in the pages of the Justice League during one of their annual events with the Justice Society of America. I remember thinking how cool Earth 2 the place he inhabited was back then. It seemed like anything could happen. Characters aged unlike Earth 1 where the Justice League resided. They could get married, have children (like Batman’s daughter the original Huntress) and they could even die.

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Mattel's Gold

I have an admission to make in today’s installment of the reviews for The Wal-Mart exclusive wave. It might surprise some of you or it might not.

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Mattel's Obsidian

We continue our look at the exclusive Ultra Humanite wave from Wal-Mart with Obsidian. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have this figure. This is a figure I thought pretty much would not be made so much so that I made a custom of it that turned out less than great. This figure is a welcome replacement and another top-notch figure from Mattel.

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Mattel Zatanna review

You know the old cartoon George of the Jungle and how he would often say “George have secret weapon.... dumb luck!” I had a George moment last Saturday.

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