Look, I’m Just Gonna Say It

The Watchmen film looks to be a completely ridiculous undertaking. There, I’ve said it. I’ve been avoiding posting anything Watchmen related. Oh sure, I’d have loved to have posted a comment here and there, but thanks to every other movie/media site on the net, well, I just haven’t been able to bring myself to add [...]

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Does Heath Ledger Deserve the Oscar?

Last night at the SAG Awards, Heath Ledger was awarded the SAG Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He’s also favored to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as well. We all saw this coming. The buzz was circulating online even before The Dark Knight opened in July. But is all [...]

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A Reflection on Batman

Okay,  so we all know what happened at the end of Final Crisis by now.  As convoluted as the whole R.I.P storyline was it was only further complicated by Final Crisis.  In short, Bruce Wayne is out of the picture as Batman for the foreseeable future.   I dare say he is “dead” because in comics [...]

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‘JSA’ 2006-Present

When I picked up the first issue of Geoff Johns’s, Dale Eaglesham’s and Alex Ross’s work on Justice Society of America, as a new comic afficianado, the first thing I thought (and I’m sure you’ll make me regret this later) was, “Man, these are all second and third stringers.”
What can I say?
I didn’t know the [...]

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Hail to the Geeks

Well, I’ve become addicted to comics. The shame, really, is only overshadowed by the child-like glee I feel every evening when I pop open a copy of JSA or Batman or Infinite Crisis.
Among all the characters I’ve followed as best I could during my life (comics were never encouraged as I was growing up. I [...]

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