Tom Speelman, Author at The Mary Sue

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The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Have Much to Him

The trailers for The Perfect Guy have sold it as a simple Lifetime stalker flick. And yeah, the basic summary of “woman dumps guy, meets better guy who seems too good to be true until he isn’t” could describe anything you’d find on Lifetime Movie Network at any given hour. But this movie is a bit smarter and artier below the surface. It's not that smart, but it still has enough of a well-crafted and well-executed style to be interesting.

Batgirl Was a Great Part of the New 52 Even Before Burnside (Part 1)

So now that it’s just over a year since Batgirl’s shake-up was first announced, how does the work by Simone and artists Ardian Syaf, Daniel Sampere, Fernando Pasarin and Robert Gill (with fill-ins from writers Marguerite Bennett and Ray Fawkes and artists Ed Benes and others) stack up? Reading it for the first time in trade form, I’d say it’s the dark side of the current run but equally as striking and effective.