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Pulling the threads: Willow #4 and Buffy #18 review

 Perhaps the most interesting thing to note at the start of this review is how the current pandemic has caused Hellmouth-level disruption to the Buffy comic release schedule. With Willow being pushed back a month or two due to production shutting down, it’s created a very odd little plot-hole within the comics themselves. While this month saw the release of the fourth Willow c omic, it also saw the release of Buffy issue eighteen, wherein Willow has finished her adventure and returned to Sunnydale. Needless to say, this is creating a little bit of confusion, and while I’m sure it won’t affect things too much, it’s certainly making things a little more complicated than the writers perhaps meant for them to be. Willow issue 4 As I’ve mentioned in my previous reviews, the Willow miniseries, while interesting, has been trudging along in a fashion I haven’t exactly been overwhelmed with love for. Issues two and three were ones that I felt would seem a lot better in retrospect, once al

Five reasons to listen to My Dad Wrote a Porno

 It’s been five years since My Dad Wrote a Porno was released, and to celebrate that wonderful fact, I’ve decided it’s about time to share my top five reasons for listening to it. For those of you not in the know, the Belinda Blinked books are written by Rocky Flintstone, the pseudonym of Jamie Morton’s father. Morton himself decided to look on the bright side of his father’s books and enlisted friends Alice Levine and James Cooper to help him navigate the life and times of Belinda Blumenthal. Since its release, the podcast has worked its way through five of the Belinda Blinked books, with the announcement they will be reading through the sixth book in 2021.   So, if this has piqued your interest, take a look at my five reasons for getting into this unique podcast... It’s so bad it’s good If you’re thinking the basis of the podcast sounds... Interesting, you’d certainly be right. But beyond being somewhat unorthodox to read your dad’s erotic literature for the world to listen t