There’s probably a thousand podcasts meeting that description, but whatever. This one is ours. And we run through a host of topics, some silly, some deeply silly. And we go on for the length of a Bible on them. I’m using the YouTube embed because WordPress is being every more exponentially garbage at embedding what… Read More Shallow & Pedantic 8 – Comic Books and Other Shenanigans
Probably that’s not news. I haven’t felt at home in some time, really. Maybe that’s just getting old, but even when I was young I’ve found the pseudo-devotion off-putting. One thing I’ve said for years is that the reason I never became a Trekkie wasn’t because I didn’t like Star Trek, but because I didn’t… Read More I Don’t Feel At Home in Pop Culture Anymore
Yes, I know. The first Batman movie came out in 1966, and was filled with moments of epic hilarity such as “Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb!” I watched it a little while ago with my oldest. It’s grand, campy fun. We all know what I’m talking about, nerds. Red Letter Media,… Read More You Ever Dance With the Devil in the Pale Moonlight? In Praise of the First Batman Movie
Being the continuance of a series abandoned… I never read any of D.C.’s New 52, because I objected to it on principle. The whole point of comic books is that they provide the balance of new tales as part of a coninuity. I get that managing said continuity can be a challenge. But re-booting is… Read More Comic Book Post #5
I finally got the last two issues of Three today, and I am absorbing the boulder-to-the-face that is their finale. At the fifth issue, finality. That’s several pleasant layers of verisimilitude mixed with economy of storytelling. I’m saving it for next month’s post. Besides, I thought I might chime in on something that DC’s been doing that’s… Read More March Comic Book Post: Please Don’t Humanize the Comedian
This was supposed to be January’s Post, but I didn’t get around to it. There will be a February post as well…sometime in April, the way things are going. I’ve been meaning to address this scene, from Issue #2 of The Star Wars, but I was waiting for it to get addressed. I’m waiting for Annikin… Read More January Comic Book Post: The 70’s Punching You Right in the Face
I picked up the new Three and The Star Wars yesterday. They’re pretty awesome, but I’m saving my discussion of them for a later post. Today I’m going to pick up a gauntlet cast down last month, and talk about Superman: Red Son, which will dovetail nicely into this piece by Chris Yogerst in the Atlantic, “Stop Calling Superheroes… Read More December Comic Book Post: No, Batman is not Fascist.
Yesterday I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for years, organize and file my comic books. It took me the better part of a morning, but I’m terribly pleased with the general sense of imposing order on chaos. I am no more than a dabbler in comic books. I read them sporadically as… Read More November Comic Book Post: The Geek Returneth
This is why I pretty much only read Batman. Because Batman is too completely messed-up a character to have a normal sexual life, his comic is also blessely free of this kind of horsefeathers. Green Lantern sucks. I know this because I have never read it. I have never read it because it’s a dude/series… Read More Gay Green Lantern is Gay (UPDATED)
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