This is my place to vent, to pontificate, to educate, to defame, to expound, and yes, to wax rhapsodic. It's my personal brand of logic applied to the world, and it works for me.
So, I finally got around to reading “The Watchman” graphic novel, just a week after seeing The Watchmen movie in theatres. I’m not going to be posting a review, since this is certainly one movie that has certainly been reviewed to death. Suffice it to say, the movie did some things better than the comic, [...]
Now, it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of comics. I grew up reading them and loving them, playing X-Men with other comic-obsessed friends in the playground at school (I was always Nightcrawler, rather than the obvious choice of Wolverine. I ran around the playground yelling “Bamf!”) and being the go-to guy for continuity [...]
Yesterday, after bitching about The Dark Knight, it got me to thinking about comic book movies in general, and what makes them work, or, more often, not work, in terms of the medium of film. I think I tend to have blinders on with regards to comic movies, since I’ve been reading comics most of [...]
Well, Awards season is upon us, and as a self-proclaimed geek, I’d be remiss if I didn’t speak out against a little problem I’m having with the Academy Awards this year. Look, let’s face facts — the big winner at the box office this year was a definitive one, by the name of “The Dark [...]
[Originally Posted November 27, 2006 on another blog of mine I have decided to take down.] While leafing through Amazing Spider-man #536, I was struck by something that hadn't really occurred to me. This lead to an interesting conclusion, which I thought I might share. I was noticing the banter back and forth, during the [...]