Archive for the 'Marvel Comics' Category

Things I Don’t Care About This Week

March 11, 2008, 8:05 pm

Some weeks, I just can’t work up enthusiasm for many, many things. So, with no commercial interruption, here’s the top things I don’t care about this week, in no particular order.

SWSX (South by Southwest)
I’m probably just jealous that other people are there. But it does seem like the whole thing is run off of "smug."
Secret [...]

Bad Movies: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

January 7, 2008, 9:55 pm

As the inaugural movie on my new Playstation 3, I could have chosen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only movie I really wanted on Blu-Ray), or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or even Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But no, instead, I had to watch Fantastic Four: Rise [...]

Things I Don’t Care About This Week

March 9, 2007, 10:17 pm

Here’s a short list of things I don’t really care about this week:

The Death of Captain America: He’ll be back, and it seems like if it was that easy to kill him, why didn’t the Red Skull do it back in World War II?
300: Do I really need to see a long, loud action movie [...]

The Patron Saint of Spandex

January 29, 2007, 10:01 pm

Each month, I’ll be declaring a patron saint of this site: characters who have meant something special to me at one point. It might be a popular character, or an obscure one; male or female; DC or Marvel. Then, for the month, I’ll be doing various posts on that hero or linking to better places [...]

Super-Mega-Hyper Comic Review Giant Spectacular

September 14, 2006, 6:44 pm

Yikes, two weeks behind on reviews. I’m abandoning my usual format in order to catch up. Next week, things should be back to normal. Extremely short comments this time, too.

September 13th Comics

52: Week Nineteen
Even more mysteries are set up, with precious little being explained. Still, Starfire wearing Animal Man’s shirt was both cute and a [...]