Recently, io9.com posed the question: what’s the ultimate starship crew? To which I answered: I DON’T KNOW, and ran away crying because I didn’t want to choose between my various fictional friends. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt compelled to give it a shot. So … Get hard
Welcome to the Superhero Movie Guidebook! For an introduction to this series, click here. Check here for past entries and future updates most Thursdays. If you look at the syllabus for this chronological Guidebook, you might notice something missing. Namely, women. While I can certainly hope that brighter days may be ahead for women in … Get hard
Last night, my wife and I went to a party, at which I got quite buzzed. After she drove us home, she was ready for bed, but I decided to stay up and keep drinking while watching something. As I scrolled through Netflix, I suddenly came across The Hunchback of … Get hard
Welcome to the Superhero Movie Guidebook! For an introduction to this series, click here. Check here for past entries and future updates most Thursdays. If you’re a long-time reader of this series, then, well, you’re probably Andy. Hi Andy! And as Andy may recall and the rest of you can learn now, I did not … Get hard
Welcome to the Binge Project series! These Binge Projects will feature me reading or watching an entire run of comics, books, TV shows, or other media in rapid order, then writing expansively about the experience. This installment will be a slower process, as I work my way through the lengthy … Get hard
Welcome to the Superhero Movie Guidebook! For an introduction to this series, click here. Check here for past entries and future updates most Thursdays. These are the movies that suck for me to write about. The truly awful ones are fun to mock, and the good ones are at least fun to watch. But some … Get hard
Under different circumstances, I would feel bad for Wil Wheaton. Twenty years (almost exactly!) after the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wheaton is still chiefly remembered by most, myself included, as Wesley Crusher, probably TNG‘s most polarizing character. (Personally, I found Wesley to be rather lovable, but the internet often … Get hard
X-Men: Days of Future Past is out today, and if you’ve already seen it, congratulations, your life is a little better than mine. (My own viewing will wait for tomorrow morning, a short delay that feels almost interminable right now.) We’ve already thrown some X-coverage at you this week. Sira did … Get hard
Welcome to the Superhero Movie Guidebook! For an introduction to this series, click here. Check here for past entries and future updates most Thursdays. One of my hopes when beginning this lengthy project was that I would discover some gems that I previously hadn’t seen. At last, with 1981’s Condorman, that hope has been realized. … Get hard
Today is the 26th birthday of Seven Inches’ founder Andy Greene. I met Andy online probably sometime around him turning 13, so this means I’ve now known him half his life. Which in turn means I know a lot about the guy. So in honor of him turning 26, here … Get hard