Opinions
Opinions are a funny thing. We all have them, and, no matter how much we might have in common with each other, no matter how similar 95 percent of our thoughts may be, there’s always disagreements....
View ArticleFan Service
As a long time, on again, off again comic book fan, it’s no secret that I’ve had my ups and downs with the storytelling medium I used to consider my favorite. Comic books are going through a crisis,...
View ArticleThe Last 7 Superheroes I Want to See as Movies
So I asked my friends and neighbors in the Twitterverse to give me a topic to blog about because I’m pretty lazy and at this point, I sometimes feel like I’m repeating myself. At least if I do it with...
View ArticleGreen Lantern: First Flight (a review)
FIRST, THE COMIC BOOK RANT. YOU CAN SKIP TO THE REVIEW A FEW PARAGRAPHS DOWN.I don’t know if my regular readers have noticed this or not, but I tend to spend an unusual amount of time bemoaning the...
View ArticleRealism VS Surrealism
Realism is highly overrated. In particular, I hate realism applied to fantasy. Mostly because it seems to miss the point of fantasy in the first place.I recently started a Twitter mini-debate with a...
View ArticleSpectacular
I started watching Season One of Spectactular Spider-Man. It’s pretty good. It could be great except that I could never get past certain elements of the Spider-Man character. Mostly, it’s that...
View ArticleGreen Lantern (Cultural Counter Punch)
There’s a line in the cultural sand of superheroes. It’s a line that says superheroes are either “dark and sophisticated” like The Dark Knight or “slight and stupid” like Green Lantern. It’s deeper...
View ArticleRespect the Aquaman
Hey, everyone. Check out my latest guest post on SF Signal. It’s an erudite defense of silly superheroes.http://t.co/xLybYMD
View ArticleGet Real (or Don’t)
It’s starting to cheese me off (excuse my language) that so many writers and creators will resort to the Realism Defense when it suits their purposes and ignore it when it doesn’t. Maybe that’s just...
View ArticleQ&A Thursday
It’s not quite Q&A Friday, but I thought I’d go ahead and jump ahead of schedule because this week’s question is just so darned interesting I couldn’t wait. If you had free reign to write a current...
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