From the Tuesday, August 11, 2009 edition of The Hollywood Reporter: Universal Studios has ticket to ride on “My Little Pony” “GI Joe” director Sommers to direct 2011 tentpole based on childhood toy with no noticeable storyline by Andrew Foley “2011 is going to be a great year for fans of gritty, action-packed films based […]

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LIKED – Ghost Rider: Heaven’s Fire seems a bit gratuitous in some ways (was there a reason this couldn’t just be in the regular Ghost Rider comic instead of pumping the price to four bucks because you included a measly 70s reprint in the back, Marvel?), but who cares if it’s a bit of a […]

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So I went to see G.I. Joe and don’t belive the critics because this movie is fantastic. Unless the critics said it was good. Then you can believe them. Those critics! Never know what they’re going to be critical about! Anyway I know a lot of you are skeptical so sit back. I am going […]

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How Cry For Justice #2 is possibly the most emblematic comic book of this age: 1.) The narrative presents to the reader two fights. 2.) Of these two fights, the reader enters the first (a traditional hero v. hero misunderstanding fight between Mikaal Tomas and Congorilla) at about the 95 percent finished mark, after the […]

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It’s an odd feeling to realize you’ve been reading a comic for more than twenty issues based entirely on inertia. As I flipped open Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #27 yesterday it occurred to me that I had no real memory of what had happened in the last issue, or much genuine interest in […]

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I don’t really need to introduce the Phantom Stranger to most of you, I think, so I just want to say something about him. The reason the Phantom Stranger is great is because he is the elemental expression of something we all, deep down, want to believe is true (even if we don’t), and that […]

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Before we get started, Dan asked: …the few times I’ve tried to watch it I had to change the channel immediately when Mary Murphy starts talking. And I know more people who don’t watch the show because of her than watch it despite her. What are your thoughts on her presence and what she brings […]

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The annual Jeopardy Teen Tournament is on before SYTYCD and I’m watching it, both because i like Jeopardy and because I’m eating my dinner (which is a salad today) and I am pleased to report that these kids – who were effortlessly nailing all the answers and generally doing everything but wearing signs saying “One […]

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Today marks the second anniversary of my really having started blogging on this new site in earnest after being booted off Livejournal. (Which probably only sped matters up somewhat as at the time I’d been planning to move to a more independent platform anyway, but still, my thanks to LJ for giving me primo outlaw […]

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This is the type of utopian thinking I can get behind.

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My homie Karen asks: What do you normally eat for dinner when you cook for yourself? I really like to bake, but I don’t bake myself food for dinner because most of what I bake is desserts and I’m not so far abased as to eat strawberry rhubarb pie for a meal and I am […]

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Top comment: Guys, you’re not grasping the ramifications of this! Not only was President Obama born in a foreign country, he was born IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE in which Kenya achieved independence several years earlier! Who knows what other horrifying properties this alternate timeline has? CAN YOU PROVE IT IS NOT ONE OF THOSE UNIVERSES […]

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