Amazon Fire TV Stick: Hands-on and Review

Amazon Fire TV Stick: Hands-on and Review

The Amazon Fire TV Stick, the HDMI dongle version of the Amazon Fire TV that came out earlier this year, finally dropped. It shipped out to customers on November 19 for those who ordered it early. I was fortunate to order one of these as soon as it was announced. As a Amazon Prime member, I was able to buy the Fire TV Stick for $19 during a two-day promotional sale. I figured for the price, there is no harm to test it out.

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Lenni Reviews: Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova

Lenni Reviews: Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova

College freshman, Thea Slavin has just come to Princeton to study music from Bulgaria. A genius with the piano, she is quickly overwhelmed trying to fit in and keep up with her furious schedule of study and practice, as well as a brooding boy; Rhys, relentlessly pursuing her.

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Transformers: Drift #1 Empire Of Stone (Comic Review)

Transformers: Drift #1 Empire Of Stone (Comic Review)

Transformers: Drift #1 Empire Of Stone centers around Transformer Drift. Drift was formerly known as Decepticon Deadlock, but after seeing the horrors of the Transformers War he perspective changed. Drift goes to undisclosed planet where Decepticon rogues are trying to take over.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #40 (Comic Review)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #40 (Comic Review)

The heroes on the half shell, are back in all new issue for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #40. The battle has finally become with the Turtles and their mutant allies vs Bebop and Rocksteady. This issue is action packed and most of it is action more than story.

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Real Heroes Review

Real Heroes Review

A desperate reality show producer hits on the idea of doing "The Real World", but with superheroes. Unfortunately, Spiderman, Supergirl, and Iron Man all have better things to do so he takes what he can get. This is a look behind the mask at B-string superheroes hoping to hit the big time.

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Lenni Reviews: Vampire Knight vol 19 by Matsuri Hino

Lenni Reviews: Vampire Knight vol 19 by Matsuri Hino

I started reading this series when Shojo Beat was still a subscription magazine. Unfortunately, when the magazine stopped, I also stopped reading it; due entirely to my allotted money to spend on hard copy volumes of comics or manga.

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Lenni Reviews: Crooked River by Valerie Geary

Lenni Reviews: Crooked River by Valerie Geary

After the death of their mother, young Sam and Ollie are sent to life with their father, Bear; an eccentric man who lives in a tee-pee and is a beekeeper for a living. After being estranged for years after he left them, Ollie and Sam are adjusting as well as they can despite Sam's somber attitude and Ollie's refusal to utter a single word.

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RESIDENT EVIL: THE MARHAWA DESIRE VOL. 1 REVIEW

RESIDENT EVIL: THE MARHAWA DESIRE VOL. 1 REVIEW

STORY & ART BY: NAOKI SERIZAWA CONCEPT BY: CAPCOM PUBLISHED BY: VIZ SIGNATURE/VIZ MEDIA, LLC RATED M FOR MATURE GENRE: HORROR, ACTION RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 2014 At the prestigious and elite Marhawa Academy, a female student suffers a horrifying transformation. Called into investigate, Professor Doug Wright and his nephew Ricky find themselves caught up in a deadly and growing tragedy.

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FUgly Review

FUgly Review

JESSE SANCHEZ, an artist/comedian gives the performance of his life. During a New Year's party, Jesse fakes a suicide attempt wrapping a retractable dog leash around his neck, accidentally knocks himself out, and sinks into the waters of his bathtub. Jesse gets the chance to reflect, possibly for the last time, upon his life and love. Known for his envelope pushing performances, Jesse's near death experience bends reality to stage and back again.

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TERRA FORMARS VOL. 3 REVIEW

TERRA FORMARS VOL. 3 REVIEW

STORY BY: YU SASUGA ART BY: KEN-CHI TACHIBANA ENGLISH TRANSLATION: JOHN WERRY  PUBLISHED BY: VIZ SIGNATURE/VIZ MEDIA, LLC RATED M FOR MATURE (EXPLICIT CONTENT) GENRE: SCI FI, HORROR, ACTION RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 2014  In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete.

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Birthright Vol 2 (Comic Review)

Birthright Vol 2 (Comic Review)

What is the line between fantasy and delusion? In the aftermath of last issue, the Rhodes family is looking for answers...and nothing is what it seems. Now that Mikey has been revealed to be alive. This volume deals with whether the Rhodes family believes it or not. Mikey in the last issue was revealed to alive. He was taken by a race of creatures for he was the chosen one to save their world.

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Birthright Vol 1 (Comic Review)

Birthright Vol 1 (Comic Review)

For the Rhodes family, losing their son was the most devastating thing that could've ever occurred… but it couldn't prepare them for what happened when he returned. Birthright is one of the surprises of the year. I truly fell in love with the concept and story so far. When Aaron Rhodes is out playing catch with his young son Mikey. Mikey ends up going to the woods and disappears.

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Lenni Reviews: Naruto vol 67 by Nasashi Kishimoto

Lenni Reviews: Naruto vol 67 by Nasashi Kishimoto

I have a horrible confession to make. I, Lenni, being of unsound mind and otaku body, have never read Naruto. Ever. So, it is while dodging thrown Pocky and rice balls (because who throws rotten tomatoes anymore?) that I dive in and attempt to review this manga.

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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Review

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Review

While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot was accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor the computer of his mecha could recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he found himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and -- most shocking to him -- naturally breathable air.

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Lenni Reviews: My Love Story vol 2 by Kazune Kwahara and Aruko

Lenni Reviews: My Love Story vol 2 by Kazune Kwahara and Aruko

Continuing from volume one, my favorite big guy with a big heart, Takeo Goda is still misunderstood due to his giant appearance and gruff looks. But he doesn't care as long as Rinko Yamato looks at him with a great big smile and his best friend Makoto Sunakawa is by his side. But life is as life does and events conspire to make Takeo have to chose who he will spend his time with when both of the most important people in his life need him the most.

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The Legend Of Korra (Videogame) Review

The Legend Of Korra (Videogame) Review

The events of the game occur in the three weeks between what happened in the second and third seasons of the series, which aired in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Korra is opposed by a "chi-blocker" who, at the start of the game, strips Korra of her bending abilities, which she has to regain in the course of the game. The game's main villain, Hundun, is named after a chaotic entity in Chinese mythology.

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Lenni Reviews: Food Wars vol 2 by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

Lenni Reviews: Food Wars vol 2 by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

What happens after you (begrudgingly) get accepted to school? Why, you move into the dorms, of course! And of course Soma can't take such a simple step without having to battle his way through so first he battles the dorm matron, then we are introduced to the idea of the Counsel of Ten as Soma battles the ever hardly dressed Satoshi Isshiki for a place to rest his head.

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Mike Tyson Mysteries Series Premiere Review

Mike Tyson Mysteries Series Premiere Review

What happens when you combine the style of the Scooby Doo cartoons with the personality of one Mike Tyson? Believe it or not you get a pretty entertaining show entitled "Mike Tyson Mysteries." One thing Mike Tyson Mysteries does well is knowing it's identity. The show does exactly what it's design to do and the put Mike Tyson in strange situations and solve mysteries.

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Lenni Reviews: Black Rose Alice vol 1 by Setona Mizushiro

Lenni Reviews: Black Rose Alice vol 1 by Setona Mizushiro

In 1900's Vienna, famous tenor Dimitri Lewandoski gets trampled by a horse and wakes up with a strange rose shaped mark on the back of his neck. Suddenly, whenever he sings, people die. Suffering the loss of his beloved, he goes underground. The story really begins in 2008 Tokyo where Azusa Kikukawa is involved in a fatal car accident and Dimitri offers to save her lover in exchange for becoming a breeder for the same vampire seeds which infect Dimitri.

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