Yes, I have been off in the desert. I have been contemplating the universal truths, eating nothing but locusts and honey, letting the poisonous snakes nibble on my tender bits and hallucinating from their venom, letting my beard grow out as I became sunburned and progressively insane. And now, having become wise in the ways [...]

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Okay, my apologies to anyone who’s a) not seriously into Doctor Who, and b) not absolutely mega-geeky. But this is an idea I’ve had for a long time now, and I wanted to get it out on metaphorical paper. So for those of you not into hardcore fan theorizing…sorry, but shit just got real. Read [...]

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On thinking about it, I think that part of the fun I have with fandom is coming up with crazy theories. I don’t mean just crazy speculation. I know some people get a charge out of watching the first two episodes of Season Six and thinking,  “Hmm, I wonder if River Song is going to [...]

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And so with a bit of sorrow, tempered by immense joy and constant anticipation, we bid a fond adieu to another season of Doctor Who. The plots have been duly twisted, the revelations duly revealed, the jokes laughed at and the scares screamed at. (Well, not literally. Unless you’re my five-year-old daughter, who has gotten [...]

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A few years back, I had cause to buy the novelization of ‘Infinite Crisis’, by Greg Cox. (I was working on a book project that has since fallen through on account of being terminally over-ambitious and unfinishable, and it involved reading a lot of crossovers.) I didn’t get around to reading it…see “unfinishable and over-ambitious, [...]

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When ‘The Dark Knight’ came out, I confess that I did not have tremendously high hopes. Not because of Heath Ledger as the Joker or anything I’d heard about the production, but simply because I had yet to see a live-action Batman movie I actually liked after six tries (I liked the ’89 Batman when [...]

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For those of you who don’t read my own personal blog (and you’re certainly not obligated to), I recently posted an angry, possibly coherent rant about some people’s belief that Leia appears as a more empowered, feminist character in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ than she does in ‘Star Wars’, despite large amounts of extremely blatant textual [...]

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It’s a crazy thought. Honestly, I think it’s a crazy idea to even try, because I think that reboots eventually necessitate retelling of old stories because a character is more than the sum of his or her origin. (You couldn’t even write a completely clean “Hawk and Dove”, for example, because the character of Hawk [...]

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(First, let me apologize for the lack of a post last week. My job is dealing with a whole bunch of new regulations that rolled out on September 1st, and I wound up working 57 hours that week to help out. Blogging kind of fell by the wayside as a result; normal service has resumed [...]

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Last week…okay, this week, but it was meant to be last week…I talked a bit about Terry Pratchett’s latest novels, and someone suggested in the comments that I should write a “So You Want To Get Into Discworld” post. This is actually a really good idea; the question of “Where do you start with the [...]

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My book buying budget has been tight of late, so I just recently had the chance to sit down with Terry Pratchett’s most recent Discworld books. Before I begin discussing them, let me just say that I do believe Terry Pratchett to be the finest writer I have ever had the privilege of reading. This [...]

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Been a busy weekend, but let’s face it, I had to get to this sooner or later. I can’t talk about DC’s greatest heroes winding up at J.K. Rowling’s magical wizard academy without talking about Marvel’s big heroes and where they’d wind up. (I’d discuss the X-Men, but let’s face it, they already are at [...]

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Hey, it could happen. The DCU is big, it’s got magical, and the Big Two comics companies have a long and stories tradition of incorporating their tie-in comics wholesale into their fictional universe so that they can get the cheap sales hit of crossing over their established heroes with the new corporate icon on the [...]

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Doctor Doom is, without a doubt, one of the best villains in comic book history. Arguably, he’s the best; he has menace, style, wit, flair, power, and even when you defeat him, he’s still the ruler of an entire country and untouchable by the law. (Even better, when he loses control of Latveria, the writer [...]

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Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about how important it is to keep taxes low on the rich. Not, as we all might suspect, because all the Congressmen saying it have taken somewhere in the neighborhood of five hundred grand in “campaign contributions” from very rich people who generally don’t tend to part with money [...]

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