Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Comic Book Marriages

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Very few comic book characters get married. Even fewer stay married. Probably one reason for this is the conviction that comic book readers ...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Oscars - the animated movies

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The nominees for best animated feature film this year are: "Brave" , "Frankenweenie" , "ParaNorman" , ...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Books and EBooks

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Kathleen Parker has become the latest to bemoan the rise of electronic media over print. Like many, she has a sentimental attachment to ink...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

The End of Spider-Man

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In Amazing Spider-Man #700, the hero dies and the comic book is cancelled. Of course that's not the end of it. It's actually Doctor ...
Monday, December 17, 2012

The Hobbit

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Fans of the novel The Hobbit may be disappointed to know that the movie of that name is not exactly an adaptation of the book. Yes, the movi...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Lincoln and 1776

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The movies Lincoln and 1776 are very different in tone but they make interesting bookends to a chapter of American history. 1776 is a musica...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Windows 8 - XP or Vista?

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The initial press on Windows 8 has been negative. Some of it very negative . More recently there has been some push back , reminding people ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Black Friday

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According to Wikipedia, the term "Black Friday" originally came from Philadelphia and referred to the crowded streets and stores. ...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Argo

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People who want to see a movie about real espionage should give a pass on the new James Bond movie and go to see Argo instead. In November, ...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Anno Dracula

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Yesterday was Bram Stoker's 165 birthday (or would have been if he was still around). This seems like a good time to talk about the nove...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Disney and Lucas

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The headlines say that Disney bought Star Wars and go on to talk about the new Star Wars movies. There is a lot more to the announcement tha...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Mockingbird Lane

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Previously I expressed skepticism about the reboot of the Munsters. After viewing the pilot, NBC apparently decided to pass on the series bu...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Comic Book Ghosts

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It's Halloween, a date associated with ghosts. Here's a quick survey of ghosts in comic books. The most prominent comic book ghost i...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Halloween Movies

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Here are a few great movies for Halloween: Hocus Pocus - After 300 years, three notorious witches return to Salem, Mass. to suck the life ou...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Face-Off - Season 3

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Face-Off is the one reality show that my wife and I really like. It is a contest to choose the best make-up artist. There are several attrac...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Lord of Light

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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny has been one of my favorite novels since high school. I reread it a few months ago and found that I had forgo...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Vanished Genres

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Several days ago I saw a list of reasons that writers seem to disappear. One of them is that their genre vanishes. I've seen some genres...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Disney's Mermaids

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As a follow-up to last week's post about a mermaid tv show, I thought I would say something about the two main mermaid movies. Both were...
Friday, October 05, 2012

H2O Just Add Water

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A few months ago I was looking for something pirate-related to write about and decided to research the mermaid fad (women and girls are payi...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Jack Kirby

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During a q&A session with Niel Adams, someone started to compare him to Jack Kirby. Adams stopped him, saying that no one is like Jack K...