Jun

Single-Sentence Review of X-Men: First Class

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

If you can get past January Jones’ horrible Emma Frost, this is the best of the X-Men movies; if you can’t, it still is.

66 comments

Jun

Why Reboots Happen

Posted by John Seavey Published in Comics, General Nerd Crap, General Nerd Shit

A good while back, in my first real post for MGK, I talked about the problems with reboots and how they rarely work from a storytelling standpoint. (There’s also an argument that they rarely work from a sales standpoint; for every high-profile success like the Silver Age relaunch or the Ultimate Universe, there’s ten failures […]

25 comments

Jun

Meanwhile, in the non-DC universe

Posted by MGK Published in Law, The Internets

I don’t typically mention the legal blog stuff I do here, but I think my discussion of the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in R. v. J.A. – the “you can’t consent in advance to sexual activity taken place while you sleep” case – would be of interest to my greater readership, so here […]

36 comments

Jun

What Isn’t Being Said About The DC Reboot

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Some points I think need to be made that aren’t generally being made. Same-day digital. It’s almost become a cliche for some nerds to say “oh you’re all talking about a reboot but same-day digital is what really matters here.” Yes and no. I’ve seen at least one news source say that the price point […]

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