Friday, June 26, 2009

Goodbye Michael

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On reflecting on the career of the late Michael Jackson, I have to start by saying that I hate child singers. Their voices grate on my nerve...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

FF blogging - the Inhumans

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Continuing my blogging on old issues of the Fantastic Four... I left off with the defeat of the Frightful Four. This was followed by an annu...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Land of the Lost II

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I haven't seen the Land of the Lost movie and I don't intend to so I can't offer a review of it. What I can do is review why I d...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Futurama Returns

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Futurama was created as a companion piece to the Simpsons. Originally Fox showed it immediately after the Simpsons but the later player with...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Land of the Lost

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Hanna-Barbera ruled Saturday morning with limited-animation cartoons. In the late-60s and early 70s they had som...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Lost & Heroes

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Now that Lost and Heroes have wrapped up their 2009 seasons, how did they do? Heroes divided the year into two "books". The fir...
Friday, May 08, 2009

Star Trek's view of the future

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If you didn't live in the 1960s then it is hard to imagine the impact of the space race. When Star Trek premiered in 1966, we had gone f...
Monday, May 04, 2009

Wolverine

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Back when Wolverine first appeared in the Incredible Hulk, I doubt that anyone would have predicted that he could headline his own movie. Du...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Marvel 1965

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My last post left Reed and Sue escaping from the Frightful Four, towing a brainwashed Thing who had an anti-gravity disk glued to him. The W...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Fantastic Four - 1965

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I happened to start looking at issues of the FF in 1965 a few weeks. I chose an issue (#36, the Frightful Four's first appearance) which...
Friday, April 24, 2009

The Return of the Frightful Four

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Several days ago I wrote about the issue of the Fantastic Four that introduced the evil FF - the Frightful Four. It was an unusual issue. Pa...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Minimalist Comics

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I was re-reading an old issue of the Fantastic Four recently. Someone stole my copy of that issue shortly after I bought it so it has been o...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Monsters vs Aliens - Observations

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I love a tightly constructed plot and Monsters vs Aliens does a good job of this. Here are some observations about the plot and other point...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Monsters vs Aliens vs Incredibles

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I've seen various reviewers compare Pixar and Dreamworks as Disney and Warner Brothers. This comparison sells Dreamworks short. Their mo...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Car Clocks

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Last weekend began Daylight Savings Time. My car has a an analog clock with a simple mechanism for resetting the clock. You put a pen into a...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

The PT Cruiser

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A change of subject, instead of talking about media, I'm going to talk about cars - at least one model, the PT Cruiser. In the mid-1990s...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Rare comics

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An issue of Action Comics #1 is coming up for sale . It could possibly top $1,000,000. So, what is your collection likely to be worth? Proba...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Oscar Ratings

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Once again the organizers of Oscar night are expecting low ratings and wondering why. This is an easy question to answer. Currently popular ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Deadman

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I've been meaning to write this for a few weeks - ever since Deadman made an appearance in the new Brave and the Bold cartoon series. De...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ultimate Joker?

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There is a movement to force Warner from ever using the Joker in any movie - ever. Called the Ultimate Joker, this movement says that Heath ...