A friend of mine recently posted the following on social media. As a geek, naturally I’m thrilled. But part of me is convinced it’s a trap. I mean, rationally, I know why there are so many geek movies out there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. It’s about an order of monks who preserve scientific knowledge after mankind nearly destroys itself in a nuclear war. Drawing inspiration from monks who preserved classical civilization in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to overstate the impact Batman ’89 had on me as a young geekling. I have a firm memory of collecting the Batman trading cards and pasting their stickers all over the case to my baritone horn. This was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Look, I loved Star Wars as much as the next guy. I had the Star Wars bedsheets. I built an Ewok village in the woods behind my house. My love for my Uncle Dale is based largely on the fact[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my quarter bin pleasures is this goofy little Charlton horror comic called “Midnight Tales.” “Midnight Tales” is an anthology piece nominally starring Prof. Coffin, aka the Midnight Philosopher, and his niece Arachne. It trafficked in light horror, PG-rated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forgive me if I’m giving all the most basic Comp 101 analyses here. I just read this a month ago. I hope some college freshman plagiarizes this essay in good health. The original Frankenstein has a lot more poetry than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just re-read Dracula, with the benefit of nearly 70 years of fanboy pathology. I read it in high school, but I found the epistolary format kind of boring. Re-reading it for my Back to Basics project, it worked a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re anything like me, you thrilled this week to see Paul McGann return as the Eighth Doctor in “Night of the Doctor.” Count me as one who didn’t hate the 1996 Fox TV movie, and one who’s really enjoyed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was looking at four, count ’em, four Shadow comics in my pull, but all I could think of was “stomach share.” I just read a book called “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” and stomach share[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… and it’s dealing with it the exact same way. There have been a lot of articles about the “death of the blockbuster” lately. Here’s a sample here: Hollywood’s Tanking Business Model from the New York Times. The writers of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…