Otis & Peanut Find A Way (Family Comic Friday)

Peanut the naked mole rat and Otis the guinea pig are back in another volume full of fun, adventures and a little bit of sadness. As with the other books in the series, there's a trio of tales in this 2025 offering.

First, Otis wishes to travel somewhere. Anywhere! He's never traveled before and he's a little bit scared about taking the journey by himself. So Peanut offers to help her best friend to learn how to prepare for a trek. After learning what to and not to pack, Peanut turns Otis' house into a hotel complete with very bumpy mattress!

Then Otis confides in his pal that he's concerned that he's forgetting his late friend and Peanut's sister, Pearl. Otis has been healing since Pearl passed away in book 1 and is scared that his lessening grief means that he doesn't miss his late friend anymore. But thankfully, Peanut is there to show that time can possibly heal all wounds.

Finally, Otis' sister is coming to town for a super short visit. Otis makes a list in hopes of making the most of his sister's 22 minute stop before the train she's been riding on starts back up. With Peanut's, hopefully Otis can create the perfect schedule.

I really enjoyed this book. But it's a bit less funnier than volume 2. This volume is rather heartfelt. But as least it's nowhere near as heartbreaking as the previous volume was. In book 2, Peanut was having a really hard time with her sister's passing. So I was very glad to see that she was healing and able to help her friend. 

The first story was funny and the final act has some funny moments. But I felt like I enjoyed the previous book more because of the silliness factor being really ramped up. I think writer Naseem Hrab and illustrator Kelly Collier planned it to be more slapstick in nature because of how really deep the segment of Peanut missing her sister was. Comic relief in the light of tragedy. With this volume not being so emotional, I think less zaniness was put into the bookending stories.

 If there's a volume 4, and I hope there is, I hope Hrab and Collier tone down the sorrow and really focus on the laughs because Peanut and Otis really deserve a break in the gloomy clouds. And can we please get an Otis & Peanut animated series??? If we could, I nominate Andy Sandberg for Otis. But if Kate Micucci isn't Peanut, I say us fans of this series riot!!! Or at least write a sternly worded letter to whomever is producing the series.

A good read. It's just not my favorite in the series.

Worth Consuming! Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.

The Fire-Breathing Duckling (Family Comic Friday)

I was very surprised to find today's Family Comic Friday selection at my public library. It debuted in stores just a couple of days ago and with budget cuts, I wasn't expecting my library to be getting a copy of it. But I am very glad they did!

The Fire-Breathing Duckling is a retooling of the Hans Christian Andersen legend of The Ugly Duckling. Instead of a swan's egg getting mixed in with a batch of baby ducks, it's a dragon egg!

Nort is different than his duckling siblings. He's big and red instead of yellow and fluffy. He doesn't quack. He kinda snorts. Instead of swimming and floating on the water, he just kinda sinks. 

Unfortunately that last act brings about a lot of laughter at his expense from other animals on the ducklings' farm. So Nort, aided by his blue jay friend, goes around the stead hoping to find out what type of duckling he might be and Nort might just become the hero of all his barnyard friends in the process...

I love Toon Books. They're like the A24 Studios of graphic novels for young readers. They always feature artists and writers with such unique visions and voices. Frank Cammuso has both! The artwork was so adorable. There were several panels where I thought that Nort looked like Bill Watterson's timeless character Calvin; like the scene when the tiny dragon tries hay to find out if he's really a cow in disguise. 

This was a fun read recommended for readers in first and second grade. At least, that's what the suggested readers chart at the back of the book. But I think that those that are just about to enter kindergarten will love this book as well. 

I know we've still got a few more months left in the year. But I think I've already found my pick for the all-ages graphic novel of the year. It's a take on an all-time classic that I think will become an all-time great with generations to come! Hopefully this will also be the book that makes the multiple Eisner nominated Cammuso a winner! 

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 10 out of 10 stars.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Issues #48-50 of the first run of Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee are considered an American masterpiece. Even by scholars who wouldn't consider themselves a typical comic book reader. Today, I witnessed the first work of cinematic art to hot screens in decades. 

I got definite feels of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey during the first half of the film which leads up to the team of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and a very pregnant Sue Storm to confronting Galactus as he consumes a planet light-years away before he heads to Earth for the main course. 

The Devourer will spare Earth if the Fantastic Four will surrender their unborn child to him. Sensing the child's great abilities, Galactus believes that the ageless one's unstoppable hunger will finally be sated with the Richards child taking his cosmic place as a natural balance of all things in the universe. 

I don't think it's much of a spoiler to reveal that Sue has the baby while attempting to escape Galactus since a trailer came out weeks ago where Reed Richards reveals to the human race that they refuse to bargain with him. That turning point then changes the feel of the entire movie. But it still manages to keep that masterpiece feel by now evoking feelings of The Grapes of Wrath, The Ox-Bow Incident and To Kill a Mockingbird as the Fantastic Four's sense of duty to the planet while maintaining a whole family unit is greatly explored as they try to find a way to defeat Galactus.

I know a lot about the Fantastic Four. They're in my top 5 favorite superheroes all-time. I've seen every cinematic incarnation of Marvel's First Family and read a ton of their books. So I feel that I can definitively say that it was refreshing to know all of the backstory and yet watch this film as having no clue where it was going. Honest. I was clueless about how this film was gonna end.

There's 3 reasons that helped me not feel like I've seen this story a million times before. No- 4! 

#1. The movie takes place in the 1960s. A few years AFTER the team goes into space and are bombarded by cosmic rays. So no oft repeating origin story other than a quick establishing montage.

#2. It takes place on an Earth different from the 616 universe we've experienced all those other Marvel Universe movies in the past 25 years.

#3. There's no appearance of Uatu, the Watcher, whose arguable meddling in the affairs of the human race, saves the Earth from Galactus. Also absent: Alicia Masters, whose sightless view of the good in humanity causes the Silver Surfer to betray Galactus in the process.

#4. By having the Silver Surfer be a different character than Norrin Radd, you have no idea as to whether or not this Surfer is 100% to Galactus or not. It makes the character more of a dark horse in the scheme of things, helping to keep things fresh.

I know that some fans threw literal fits with having a female cast as the Surfer. I thought Julia Gardner was really good. Ralph Ineson, who plays Galactus was very good as well. As for the FF, they were like this legendary meal I had in Philadelphia years ago prepared by Iron Chef Morimoto. Individually, each element was good but not great. Get two characters together, things start to come together. Three is hitting on fabulous. But put all 4 actors together, and it's like Morimoto's Chilean sea bass with Black Bean Sauce: it was Fantastic.

I was startled by how much Human Torch actor Joseph Quinn looked like a young Robert Downey Jr. As Downey is set to play a version of Doctor Doom, I couldn't help but wonder if that casting was intentional. Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing was great when dealing with civilians. I could get used to a Ben with a beard. But he really needs to work on his battle cry of 'It's Clobbering Time!' as Ebon's was really weak.

Speaking of weak, actress Vanessa Kirby was anything but. I know that today's Sue Storm is a bad ass not to be trifled with. But when she first appeared in the 1960s, her role was less that of the Invisible Girl but more of the damsel in distress. Since the film occurs during a time when the sexual revolution is not even on most women's horizon, seeing Sue so determined and self-confident feels like an anachronism. 

As for Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards. I think it's time for him to stop being in every movie and franchise or we're going to get tired of him pretty soon. But he was good, too.

And I can't close this review without mentioning the 5th member of the team. No, not Franklin. I'm talking about H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot. Not since watching Star Wars have I been so invested in an android. I was going to be pissed if they killed him off and it was everything I could do to not pick up my phone during the film and make sure that H.E.R.B.I.E. survived. 

I would love to see this film again. But next time I do, I want to watch it at home where I can pause the screen and examine the backgrounds and the extras. I caught a few Easter eggs, like of Stan and Jack working away at Timely Comics. I'm sure I missed a ton in the opening montage scene. Plus it was so great of Marvel Studios to give a solid tribute at the end of the film to the King. Stan the Man always got the praise. It was about damn time that the applause for all for just Jolly Jack for once!

The Fantastic Four: First Steps was a masterpiece of film that deserves a view in the theater. But it's also a movie for true Marvel fans who will want to search over and over again  for clues and hidden gems like the Zapruder film.

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.

Superman (2025)

Superman, 2025.

James Gunn did NOT eff him up!

I had my doubts considering how much The Suicide Squad was more of a fart fest in line with the Troma films Gunn cut his movie teeth on. Superman was done with care, respect and awe.

I loved it.

The movie starts off with Superman already established for several years. Lex Luthor has been scheming since the Man of Steel's debut to bring Superman down and he just might have a perfect opportunity to pull such a feat off. Superman prevented a fictitious country called Boravia from invading a neighboring country. As Superman acted alone, without the approval of the United States government or even the United Nations, his actions have caused controversy to swirl over whether Superman acted on his own accord or in the public good as he claims to the press.

Luthor determines the location of Superman's Fortress of Solitude where he uncovers a secret message from Superman's Kryptonian parents that encourage him to rule the Earth as a god-like despot. Sharing the message with the news media, public opinion turns on Superman quickly. They especially don't like the part where Jor-El tells his son to continue the Kryptonian bloodline by filling a harem with as many fertile human wives as possible. 

Not wishing for further trouble, Superman turns himself in to the Department of Justice, in hopes of working things out. Only because Superman is an illegal alien and not subject to American law, plus the superpowers he can use to escape any prison, the Man of Tomorrow is turned into a private army called PlanetWatch which just happens to be funded completely by Lex Luthor!

I hear that President Trump hates this movie. He's condemned it as being 'woke'. Yet, there's nothing woke about this film. Superman's role on the international stage has been debated since his second ever appearance in Action Comics #2 when Superman prevented 2 warring European nations from starting another World War. Supe's immigration status has been a topic of discussion for at least 4 decades. Way before the term became the common vernacular used today. So really, what is 45 &47's problem with this movie?

I've seen every Superman movie ever made. He's my favorite superhero of all-time. I wear Clark Kent glasses and somehow my hair does a natural curly-cue. So I think I can attest that this was an entertaining movie that was nostalgic while pushing the Man of Steel into the 21st century. I know that I am going to be controversial when I say that I liked this Superman better than the Henry Cavill Superman! David Corenswet's Superman and Clark are in the tradition of Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh.

One reason our Commander in Chief isn't fond of the current Last Son of Krypton is because he's not a perfect specimen as he was created way back in 1938. I like that Superman isn't perfect. If he didn't have have weaknesses or made mistakes, he'd be boring. Just don't make him too flawed. Maybe like 97.8% perfect. James Gunn did a fine job keeping Superman a superior specimen while also keeping him relatable.

The real star of the film is Krypto, the super dog. Although in this film, he's a super mutt! We got the definitive Jimmy Olsen in actor Skyler Gisondo. While not a true ginger, we finally got a Jimmy with freckles. Rachel Brosnahan's Lois Lane wasn't bad. I got real Courtney Cox vibes off of her. Though, sadly I think she knows how to spell the word 'rapist'. Couldn't she at least once have called Clark 'Smallville'? I also really liked Wendell Pierce as Perry White. But then again, he's great in everything! It was so fun seeing this film be really heavy on journalism as that was one the things I loved about the Dean Cain/Terri Hatcher series from the 1990s.

I'm on the fence about Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor. He's way better than the last couple of actors to play Superman's arch-enemy on screen. But he was a little bit on the whiny side. This Lex is really intimidated by Superman despite being one of the most powerful men on Earth. Regardless, this Luthor is a real slime ball. 

Don't think that this is just a Superman movie. This is James Gunn's opening chapter into the new DC cinematic universe. Fans get to see Guy Gardner and Metamorpho in live action for the very first time while this is both Hawkgirl and Mister Terrific's big screen debut. Nathan Fillion was a perfect jackass. I can't wait to see Batman knock him out with one punch. Metamorpho was a character I remember my dad having a bunch of issues of when he was a kid and it brought back memories. As for Mister Terrific, I'm not very familiar with him as I don't read a lot of the more modern Justice Society stuff. But Edi Gathegi was terrific as the tech-saavy hero. I look forward to more of his character in future DC productions.

I loved this movie. It made me feel like a kid again. Though he's a bit more violent than all 4 Christopher Reeve Superman films combined. James Gunn's Superman may not be everyone's Man of Steel, but this film did something that recent movies haven't made me want to do in years: I wanted to buy tix for the next showing and see it again!

Worth Consuming!

Rating 9 out of 10 stars. 

Godzilla Vs the Fantastic Four #1 (2025 Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reading Challenge)

In 1977 American comic book fans were treated to the king of all crossovers when the King of All Monsters, Godzilla became an official part of the Marvel universe. For 24 issues, Dum Dum Dugan, Gabriel Jones and SHIELD did their best to contain Godzilla as he rampaged his way across the United States. Along the way, Hank Pym, Spider-Man, and even Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur during a trip back in time, tried to stop the radioactive beast from making New York City his next stomping ground.

In the final issue of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, it's Marvel's First Family who are pitted against the beast before he ultimately returned to the depths of the sea for another underwater slumber. With Godzilla's hibernation, Marvel's partnership with Japan's Toho Studios was ended and the events of the last 2 years of events were retconned out of continuity. So it's only fitting with Godzilla's return to the House of Ideas in this 2025 series of a half dozen one-shots that the Fantastic Four are chosen to welcome the Kaiju legend back!

The 6-one shots are supposed to be a rebooted continuation of the original 70s series and will show Godzilla's progression over the years in Marvel Comics history had Marvel never lost the rights from Toho. Basically scrapping everything that happened to conclude the series, in this story simply titled 'Godzilla Vs. The Fantastic Four', Gojira has made it to Manhattan coming East via the Atlantic instead of traversing the United States. Reed Richards hopes to make a final stand at Liberty Island. Unfortunately, sheer brute strength isn't enough to keep the King of the Titans down.

Mr. Fantastic regroups, leading Godzilla to the Baxter Building. At FF headquarters, Richards will reroute the entire Eastern seaboard power grid into the Baxter Building; essentially turning it into a giant bug zapper. 

The victory is premature. Because immediately once Godzilla is defeated, the sky over New York turns to fire. This has happened before. Galactus has returned and he brings with him a new herald: the three headed alien dragon destroyer known as King Ghidorah!

Ryan North penned this epic story that rivals Stan and Jack's 'Galactus Trilogy' by adding Kaiju to the mix. John Romita Jr. penciled the interior artwork with the regular cover crafted by A Kubert. Further issues will star the Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man and the X-Men. The 6-issue chronicle into Godzilla's missing timeline culminates with a challenge by the New Avengers, who's roster is heavily influenced by the recent Thunderbolts* film starring Sebastian Stan and Florence Pugh. Hopefully, Dum Dum and Gabe will show up at some point along the way. Their appearances would be so fitting since they were main characters in the original Godzilla comic. 

Completing this review completes Task #17 (A Kaiju Comic Book) of the 2025 Comic Book and Graphic Novel Reading Challenge.

Nick Fury Vs. Fin Fang Foom #1 (2025 Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reading Challenge)

In 2024, shortly after stepping down as the head writer of Captain America, Marvel Comics announced that J. Michael Straczynski would be crafting an anthology team-up series. There would be no set main character, like with Marvel Two-In-One which saw the Fantastic Four's ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing pairing up with a different character every issue. This twist for the new series would be having 2 changing and unlikely characters interacting with each other. A sneak preview of the first issue showed the cover by Gary Frank depicting Rocket Raccoon dining inside the castle fortress of Doctor Doom!

In December, the idea of a monthly title was scrapped. But instead of Straczynski's hard work being banished to the Marvel vaults, it was decided that a slew of one-and-done specials would be produced. The 'Unlikely Duo One-Shots' would see Spidey taking on not the Sinester Six but a full SIXTEEN, the Voluminous Volstagg assisting Captain America and Ghost Rider offered a chance to be the galactic herald of Galactus. But the book that I absolutely had to have in my collection was the war time meeting of Nick Fury and the alien dragon Fin Fang Foom.

Set in October, 1940, World War II is raging across the globe, but the United States has yet to officially enter the conflict... officially. A few months earlier, Fury and his childhood friend Red Hargrove undertook a clandestine mission to the Netherlands. Now barnstorming throughout Europe in a dilapidated Fokker, Fury is once again recruited by Happy Sam Sawyer to investigate the disappearance of a number of planes owned by an American company in war torn China.

The American company is actually a front for a group of US Army based mercenaries called the Flying Tigers. Planes flying reconnaissance for the Chinese army fighting off the invading Imperial Japanese forces, have disappeared without a trace. Needing fearless pilots with military experience, Fury and Hargrove are perfect to uncover the secret of the missing airplanes. On one such mission, Fury attempts to get a closer look at a mysterious cloud that upon further investigation looks a lot like a dragon. But clouds aren't supposed to be green, have teeth and dive at you from a steep angle at a very high rate of speed!!!

J. Michael Straczynski does a fairly decent job of keeping this story in line with the established Marvel Comics canon. Fury and Hargrove 's first mission for Happy Sam in the Netherlands in Sgt. Fury #7 is referenced several times. Defeated at the hands of American mercenaries, Fin Fang Foom sets his hibernation chamber to reset for reemergence in 1961; the very year the character would make his Marvel debut in the pages of Strange Tales #89. Too bad Straczynski doesn't seem to know American history! The author has the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor a year too early!

Can somebody say 'No Prize?'  Or is this part of a new timeline some fans are debating that will see the Axis powers somehow winning World War II? What unfolds in Stracynski's remaining one-shots due out this Summer could hold the answer.

Featuring artwork by Elena Casagrande. Cover by Gary Frank.

Completing this review completes Task #13 (A war Comic) of the 2025 Comic Book and Graphic Novel Reading Challenge.

Insectopolis : A Natural History

The legendary Peter Kuper (Spy Vs. Spy) utilizes his lifelong fascination with insects and takes readers on a nearly half a billion years of history of the impact bugs, bees, beetles and butterflies have made on planet earth. 

Kuper bases Insectopolis on the hallowed halls of the New York Public Library. The human race has mysteriously disappeared, leaving insects as the dominant species. Free to roam about, a number of arthropods enter the library, eager to learn more from an interactive exhibit about themselves and how the human race loved and loathed these marvelous creatures.

There's a ton of history contained in this more than 250 page graphic novel. I'd conservatively estimate that I knew beforehand less than 10 percent of the data on entomology presented in this book. The writing is a mixture of vignettes, concise facts and in-depth theories on insect behavior. Do not expect this to be a safe book. While Kuper humanizes the insect narrators by giving them speech and a sense of humor, mankind's damage to the earth and nature's method of survival of the fittest is very much front and center in Insectopolis. The twist ending of 'The Cicada and The Tree' was heartbreaking, while what happened to the dragonfly cousin was extremely shocking.

Peter Kuper utilizes mixed media when crafting Insectopolis. You've got pencils, markers, watercolor and photography just like you would encounter if you were traversing a museum exhibit. Being set in the 21st century, there are even QR codes peppered throughout the exhibit that really work; expanding the immersive nature of the exhibit. I thought Kuper's bibliography section was so brilliant, set up to look like the library's bookstore gift shop with his sources on display instead of a boring old list of works typed up on plain white paper. 

While Peter Kuper reveals the wonders of the insect world to the reader, he also crafts a mystery that is just too intriguing to be left unsolved. At the beginning of Insectopolis a pair of human siblings discuss the evolution of insects while on their way to the New York Public Library. Just before they enter the athenaeum, everyone's phones declare a terrible emergency and that all citizens must return to their homes. A few weeks later, New York is an abandoned metropolis showing signs of a terrible tragedy. As I said earlier, all of humanity is just gone. What the heck happened? I understand the irony of humanity's extinction instead of the insects who have been endangered for decades due to climate change, pollution and the introduction of cancer causing pesticides. But I really want to read the hidden story about the end of the human race, and I feel like Kuper is holding on to that for the time being. 

Not exactly a book for all ages. There is a section on the sex lives of insects and some really thought provoking parts about evolution, the environment and use of bugs as food and everyday objects like silk. Did you know that silk worms are boiled alive while in their cocoons because when the moth hatches, it secretes a chemical that dissolves the threads? It's a terrible fate that has sworn me off of silk. But if adults read Insectopolis with their children, it might develop the next generation of insect researchers who might discover a way to have healthy moths and silk threads more humanely. 

Definitely a read for the whole family to explore.

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Lydia Kang, MD & Nate Pederson

Myths and legends. The unexplained. The macabre. The paranormal. These are all subjects that I like to read about. This book by Lydia Yang, MD and Nate Pederson looks at an assortment of strange and unusual phenomena and attempts to disprove it through scientific fact. Your usual suspects are explored here: UFOs, ghosts, cryptids and the Bermuda Triangle. Then you have your lesser known unsolved mysteries like spontaneous combustion and ley lines. Then you have things that even a lifelong lover of all things this side of Ripley's Believe It Or Not have never encountered such as the all but forgotten 20th century school of thought/cult of Lawsonism.

For the most part the writers are fair and even a touch open minded. Right off the bat, they promise to not disprove any mainstream religions. Things like Atlantis could be real and while the authors destroy the concept of astrology based on the fact that Pluto is no longer a major planet in our solar system, they admit to sometimes reading their horoscopes because 'its fun.'

One subject that I felt did show a bias was the chapter on climate deniers. Personally, I agree that something is wonky with our weather. But I don't blame it solely on the human race. I really think something is off with our planet's axis because I don't remember it still being sunlight at 9:30pm during the summer when I was a kid. Yet, while the authors expressed hopes that maybe there really is a Loch Ness Monster, they both seem to close the door on any other explanation to climate change than it's all because of fossil fuels and deforestation. I agree that has something to do with it. But I feel like there's an unspoken element out there that is also contributing to climate change and that it's being kept hush-hush.

The authors have a pair of similar books that I actually have been wanting to read for some time now. After reading this 2025 book, I am still open to getting those sister volumes. There is a light-hearted element to (most of) this book. Mostly, it's relegated to the captions for the photos and some were really funny. I liked how the majority of the chapters details events and happenings as factual before going back and tearing down the subject matter with a scientific approach. It helps to give this book a very open minded feel to it because who knows, maybe one day we will be visited by aliens flying around in a flying saucer. It's doubtful. But it's not a concept that has been 100% disproven yet.

If only the authors had kept this approach to every chapter. I wouldn't have felt like I was tricked into a promise of scientific exploration of the unknown and wound up attending a very fierce-toned TED talk on climate change.

The 2025 Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reading Challenge is HERE!!!

My reading challenge has been a success on a couple of FB groups. And I've had a ton of fun with it as well. However, I made 1 big change with this year's challenge. I felt like I'd run a marathon trying to get 50 books in as quickly as possible. After a while, I'd hardly have any enjoyment going as fast as the Speed Force to get done in time while scrambling to find books to fit my criteria. I'd also have to scrape fund together or hope the library could help me out on the really difficult items on my list. So I've cut the number of books down to 40. It's still a lot of books to read. But at least I can breathe a little. Feel free to give this challenge a try yourself.

Best of Luck!

THE RULES- which in 3 years haven't really changed:

1. I must read 40 graphic novels or comic books. The only exception is #40, which does involve reading a prose work of non-fiction about comic book history. These criteria can be completed in any order. I do not have to start at #1 and work my way down to 40.

2. I might read a book that fits multiple criteria. But I can only use 1 criteria per book. For example from an older challenge, I might read Star Wars #1 which from the year I was born (1977). As that book was also published during the Bronze Age, I could select that one instead. It's up to me to choose which criteria I mark off.

3. Once a criteria is selected, it's off the board. I cannot go back and switch criteria. For example, if I marked off Star Wars #1 as being a book more than 20 years old from my list, I can't go back and switch it to the book that was when I was born just because I am having trouble finding other comics/graphic novels from the greatest year ever!

4. I must write a review of the book in order to receive full credit. Those reviews will be listed as being part of the reading challenge. Every month I will post the challenge list to show my progress. 

5. Finally, I have until midnight, December 31st to complete my readings. That final review must be posted by January 4th, 2026 since life could get in the way. In a year that has seen power outages, cancelled flights and unexpected illnesses, a couple days grace to complete the last review is probably not such a bad idea.