Hey, the Super Bowl is coming this weekend! It’s a sports event and I know when it is! Now, for those There are two things I believe I am known for disliking on principal: cake and sports. Cake is a tangent that I’ll save for another day, but for sports…
Welcome to the new year! Some of you may be aware that during my day job I am a punk-ass book jockey. One of the things I do is run a book club. I took it over when a co-worker left and have been in charge of it in the…
I’m a comic book nerd, but I’ve never been a die-hard Marvel fan. My main stan is Superman, and before that I was all about The Shadow, in pulp and radio format. DC always seemed like mythology to me, and Marvel more soap opera. That’s less of a knock against…
It’s October, and that means it’s Halloween season. In fact, Halloween is just one week away and I haven’t written anything about it yet this year. Is something wrong? Have I been murdered by a masked killer and the drafts folder is just populating the publication list? No, none of…
New York Comic Con was a strange beast this year. First of all, the main panels that are a must for me weren’t even there this year. Ash vs The Evil Dead was cancelled earlier this year so clearly there’s no next season to push. And The Magicians as well…
Among current comic titles there are a handful that are acknowledged as classics in the making. Y: The Last Man, Monstress, The Walking Dead, though this last one possibly by sheer exposure and reputation more than the quality of the current story. One title that almost always comes up is…
Is it possible to go home again? Are your favorite books of childhood actually as good as you remember? Or should they simply remain just that, memories, never to be revisited? I went back to my childhood touchstones to see. The results were varied and interesting. Chronicles of Narnia by CS…
Saturday was Free Comic Book Day! I feel like this day goes by without much note to the general public each year, and that’s a shame. FCBD is an happens each year on the first Saturday in May. Well, this year it was May 5th so if you didn’t go…
Today marks the return of Hulu’s prestige literary-inspired dystopian drama for its second season, The Handmaid’s Tale.I’m not here to shit on this show. It’s good, compelling TV. It’s important TV. It walks a fine line between being pointed enough to bring women’s rights into pop-cultural discussion while still remaining…
Ready Player One has had a strange life in the world of pop-culture. The book came out to high acclaim, and developed a devoted following. However, since the release of the trailer for the film adaptation there has been a huge backlash on the title. In fact, there’s been suspiciously…
Vince Guaraldi and Wham are playing overhead everywhere, snow is abundant in decor and meager in weather, and microagressions are flying. That must mean it’s December and therefore the Christmas season! When this time of year rolls around I like to pull out an old favorite book. It is a…
Ideas tend to crop up in pop culture over and over, as fast as they become irrelevant, can just as quickly they become relevant once more. Vampires can represent a repressed Victorian sexuality, or the roiling power of young adulthood. Robots can be the cold, inhuman force of communism, or combined…
