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Subjective Criticism and Growing Up With Bryan Lee O’Malley
My essays on here have been getting less frequent and more personal. I’d guess that means that I’m just more focused on my personal life than on comics and pop culture right now. Probably for the...
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My Week in Comics: U2 and Grant Morrison became popular around the same time...
Annihilator #1 by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving. Legendary, 2014. Did I mention I’m not ‘keeping up’ with comics anymore? It’s not something that happened on purpose, like “ARRRRRGHHH comics! I’m...
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“I’m the Director”– Thoughts on Agents of SHIELD Season 2
Each of the three episodes that have aired of Agents of SHIELD‘s second season have featured a constant refrain from Skye, the show’s point-of-view character: “Why are things being kept from me? What...
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My Week (and Weeks and Weeks) in Comics: She Wouldn’t Let us Get Lantern...
Howdy Ho loyal readers and Malaysian spam robots. It’s been awhile — practically the whole summer, it seems — since I hollered at ya. Sorry, things got real. I helped open a restaurant and music venue....
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Peak Spader: Age of Ultron Trailer
I was just going to eat this medical cannabis peanut butter bar and catch up on Gotham (it’s not good, which is fine by me, a connoisseur of ‘meh’ television), but when I signed into Hulu I was...
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My New Favorite Marvel Comic: G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel Volume One by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona. Marvel Comics (Disney), 2014. Muslims are portrayed in American popular media all the time. Any action and intrigue fueled show or...
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Fall TV Report Card
The most important holiday on the capitalist-utopia calendar, Cyber Monday, has come and gone, and that can only mean one thing: most of the fall TV shows are either on hiatus, about to be on hiatus,...
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End Of Year Pull List
I don’t think I have it in me to do any year end Best-Of lists this year. I didn’t read enough comics in 2014 to really feel like I am qualified to survey the landscape of material and pick out what...
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Book Review: The Peripheral by William Gibson
I think the best science fiction is unforgiving. Or just un-giving; it gives you nothing. It drops you into a future, or a past (sometimes you cannot even tell which) or a present which is so...
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My Week in Comics: What if Franklin and Bash had a Tardis? edition
Chrononauts #1 & #2 by Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy with Matt Hollingsworth. Image, 2015. Time Travel is such a bummer. This century’s great Time Travel stories — Primer, Looper, Edge of...
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