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…
Wonder Woman landed on digital download yesterday, and comes out on DVD Blu-ray on September 19th. Since its theatrical release I have heard a number of my female friends voice interest in movie to Themyscira, with countless more mentions online. And who could blame them? Between the all-women population, the…
Fan-favorite creators GAIL SIMONE and CAT STAGGS make their stunning Image debut with this mind-bending new ongoing series! A slick and ruthless Chicago hitman. A smart but downtrodden Seattle housewife. When an inexplicable event strikes these two random strangers, their bodies, souls, and lives are switched to potentially deadly effect.…
I’ve been getting back into comics in a big way, and I’ve spent the past few weeks mainlining Revival: A Rural Noir. It’s a book from Image that finished its run in February with issue #47. It’s written by Tim Seeley and the art is by Mike Norton. The plot…
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter – polite, quiet, and always dressed as a princess. If her mother…
I’m sitting outside and the weather is great. Warm air, a bit on the windy side of breezy, but sunny enough that it’s still lovely. The most annoying thing at the moment is that my lunch keeps scooting across the table because of the wind, and there’s an occasional bee…
Superman is a strange character in terms of pop-culture. He’s one of the most well known superheroes in the world and yet most people pillory him and point out his lackluster cinematic record. There’s probably no easier A-list character to make fun of than the man of steel. He’s a…
I’ve been listening to a podcast called Potter and Daughter in which Joel Watson and Lilly Watson (his daughter) read through the Harry Potter novels and then discuss them a few chapters at a time. It’s a fabulous podcast and I highly recommend it. Anyway, I haven’t re-read the books in quite some time and…
It’s a new year and people are out there foolishly looking to the future. Resolutions are rolling as if January has a reservoir of self-determination that’s depleted by mid February. But I like to play the contrarian and do something different when the new year comes in. I like to take a…
When you climb to the top of the mountain Look out over the sea Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be Then you jump back down to the rooftops Look out over the town Think about all of the strange things circulating round It ain’t easy,…
