Refresh the Nation! With Slogans! Right.

I don’t want to do political posts here. But since media has decided to blur the line so much between politics and entertainment (next election, could someone please convince Simon Cowell to create ‘American President’ so that the public can just vote over the damn phone and be done with trying to pretend our political [...]

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2008 Retrospective Part I

Some things I probably should have said in 2008 and did not have the inclination and/or the wherewithal to post at the time. This list is not comprehensive and should not be taken in any particular order. Except the first one. That one’s important.
“I’m sorry, I was probably kind of an ass, wasn’t I?”
I don’t [...]

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REVIEW: ‘The Unborn’

David S. Goyer’s new film about a young woman slowly being possessed by a demon is nothing short of bland, overdone, mix and match horror schtick that fails to deliver on every single level it sets out to address.
There’ll be no need for a ‘read more’ link for this review. It’s not going to take [...]

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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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