By Paula R. Stiles

Supernatural Magazine. Titan Magazines, 2011. Issue #28, Nov 2011. 100pp. US $9.99, CAN $11.99. ISSN: 1752-945X.

I am pretty far behind on these reviews, but I happen to have all of the issues up through this week’s latest, #30 (except for the big, six-season retrospective), so I’ll try to catch up with them over the next few weeks. This issue is one of those periodic 100-page behemoths (for my sins) and features interviews that look back mostly into season six. In addition to the usual Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles double-hander interview (“Magnificent Seven”), there …

By Heather S. Vina

Written by: Teleplay by Daniel T. Thomsen; story by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.

[spoilers ahead]

Recap: Storybrooke

Henry is on his way to school when he finds the new Stranger in town (Eion Bailey), fixing his motorcycle in front of the Mayor’s house. He starts quizzing the guy about what the wooden box on his motorcycle is and what he’s doing in town. The Man tells him that he’s just visiting; the box contains the thing he came there to do. When Henry points out that he said he was just visiting, the man …

By Paula R. Stiles

[spoilers ahoy]

Recap: While Bo and Kenzi are moving into Duncan MacLeod of Highlander‘s old loft together, redecorating and trying to figure out how to pay for it all (legally, Bo insists), a surprising business opportunity drops into their laps. Well…it’s really only surprising if you’ve never read detective fiction, but it’s surprising to them. A Will o’ the Wisp is being harassed by some kid who stole his glowing treasure in the teaser. Will wants it back. He’s willing to trade information about Bo’s parents leaving her in his wood when she was a …

By J. Keith Haney

[spoilers ahead]

This one got under my skin…the first such episode in this series to have done so. We open in a parking garage where a very angry thug-type in a red shirt is hunting somebody with a screwdriver in hand. He growls, “You can’t hide, maggot. You’re gonna get what’s coming to you.” He goes behind a cherry-red Mustang and there’s the sound of a struggle. We see a freshly-laid-out corpse, wearing our thug’s clothes…with two critical differences. One, he’s got the screwdriver stuck in his throat. Two, the guy wearing them is a very …

By Paula R. Stiles

[spoilers ahoy]

Recap: We have the usual tripartite plot this week. First, unsurprisingly, Heggeman doesn’t manage to kill Josh. Instead, a fully turned Nora jumps Heggeman and tears him to shreds in front of Josh, who sees most of it before he turns. They later wake up in separate parts of the woods and meet up on Josh’s doorstep. Nora unwisely decides to remain in denial and goes to work, while Josh, in equal denial, persuades her to go to a medical students’ party in the evening. Josh’s guilt over turning Nora, and Nora’s grief over …

This week, we have spoilers for Once Upon a Time and Supernatural:

Once Upon a Time (Sunday nights, 8pm, ABC)
By Heather S. Vina

There’s a new press release from ABC for episode 1.12, “Skin Deep”:

“EMMA KEEPS AN EYE ON MR. GOLD WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE HE’S OUT FOR VIGILANTE JUSTICE AFTER BEING ROBBED, AND BELLE AGREES TO A FATEFUL DEAL TO SAVE HER TOWN FROM THE HORRORS OF THE OGRE WAR, ON ABC’S ONCE UPON A TIME

“Emilie de Ravin (Lost) Guest Stars as Belle. Jessy Schram (Falling Skies) Guest Stars as Cinderella/Ashley.…