WHAT I LIKED: Henry Cavill – I buy this guy as Superman, whereas Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, and Brandon Routh were more like “it’s impossible to cast Superman perfectly, but these guys are tall and seem earnest.” Cavill can be nice without seeming unaggressive, as in his “I’m not asking to help you, I’m telling [...]

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I’ve been watching Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, and have generally enjoyed it. You know who doesn’t? A Mister, um, DanimalCart on the Kotaku forums. To be fair, his complaint is more eloquent than some of the crap Sarkeesian has dealt with, so I thought it was worth further examination: I don’t [...]

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Allergy season means I get (more) easily distracted, so I find myself perusing Cracked.com a lot more lately. I kind of hate Cracked, but sometimes it gives me something interesting to complain about, so what can you do? Anyway, amid all the same-y lists like “8 Stupid Things The Man Has Tricked You Sheeple Into [...]

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Say this for World Wrestling Entertainment–by booking their schedule around big names who only appear a few times a year, they’ve turned Wrestlemania into a star-studded spectacle AND a show you can watch without knowing anything that’s been going on since the last Wrestlemania.  That might work out for them if they ever get going [...]

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I wanted to say something about this, and luckily I found an excuse to in our lord’s post about PVP, wherein MGK observed that liking comics doesn’t mean you like video games, which led to some comments about whether or not this is true.  I think the disagreement is largely semantic: Obviously a great many [...]

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Quick question: Am I the only one who wants to see Star Trek Into Darkness that doesn’t care what villain Benedict Cumberbatch is playing?  Because sometimes it feels like I am. More and more it seems to me like the rebooted Trek franchise is being treated like a superhero movie series, where fandom thinks the [...]

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To start off, I want to make a quick plug for Pro Wrestling X, a video game that’s been in development for over ten years, whose developers are doing a Kickstarter fundraiser to for the money needed to complete the project.  I don’t know if they’re gonna get up to 75 grand by next week, [...]

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Since I don’t read Hellblazer I don’t have any strong feelings about the Vertigo series ending at issue #300 and being replaced by a Constantine series about the DC Universe version of the character.  But I do find it interesting that the news led to a surge of articles about comics being relaunched and renumbered, [...]

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Last week I had a curious dream about me reading a crossover between Quantum Leap and Doctor Who.  This would not be particularly stunning except that I’m like the one contributor to this blog who cannot stand Doctor Who.1  Indeed, what made the dream amazingly vivid is that I was constantly thinking “Why am I [...]

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The HOT-T-T news in comics this week is that, in Superman #13, Clark Kent has quit his job at the Daily Planet to start a website because print is dying and internet something something.  I hate when they do this crap. This is the kind of event in comics1 that gets mainstream attention precisely because [...]

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All right, so.  Problems: 1. I cannot tell if this is ironically suggesting fake nerd girls are a menace to nerd culture or if it is meta-sublimina-ironically mocking nerd culture for believing same.  It should not be so hard for me to figure this out and that makes me very sad. 2. Are the bow [...]

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Fair warning: I’m going to be discussing events in this week’s issue of Avengers vs. X-Men, so watch out for spoilers.  Also, I haven’t read Avengers vs. X-Men, or the vast majority of the storylines I’m about to discuss, so feel free to decide I’m full of crap. I was surprised to learn that the [...]

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It took a lot longer than I thought, but I’ve tabulated all the suggested lists of Avengers from my last post, and tallied them up.  I should point out the following qualifications: Not everybody made it easy.  If you said something like “I would sub in Martinex” and didn’t say who you’re subbing him for [...]

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It’s way too early to figure out what Marvel’s going to be doing with it’s “Marvel Now!” relaunch, but one thing that seems clear is that Jonathan Hickman is going to be writing a bimonthly Avengers series that will feature a roster of 18 (or more!) heroes.  Eighteen sounds like a lot, but I suppose [...]

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This week Marvel is renaming Thunderbolts to Dark Avengers, presumably to boost sales by disguising the comic as an integral part of the Avengers franchise.  I’m not sure it’ll work, but Thunderbolts has always been my favorite comic book so I appreciate the effort.  Since I’m concerned that Dark Avengers #175 won’t exactly be a [...]

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