Doomsday Clock #5, or, Real Fictional Resources
The fifth issue of writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank’s Doomsday Clock explores the previously alluded-to Supermen Theory, a particularly potent vein of political discourse that has taken the DC...
View ArticleCommunication Skills for Multiversal Salvation, or, Dark Nights: Metal
Dark Nights: Metal is at once a Batman story and a Justice League story, a mystery and an adventure, a fragile, intimate drama and a sprawling, cosmic epic, and the mission of writer Scott Snyder and...
View Article“&” is for Cooperation, or, Ant-Man and the Wasp
More surprising to me than its lackluster box office haul was the feeling Solo: A Star Wars Story seemed to elicit in many reviewers that the film was “inessential.” Huh? Bro, they’re movies. They’re...
View ArticleNine Inch Nails’ Bad Witch, or, The Evitable Conclusion
Well, it had to happen eventually I suppose, and five years in is as good a time as any to finally jump the shark. Which is to say, I guess I write about music now too. Nine Inch Nails is a band that...
View Article#CloneWarsSaved, or, A Poe Boy Hot Take
Have you heard the good news!? No, not that, the OTHER good news! I have a brand new Star Wars podcast, Poe Boys! Check it out on Podbean and Apple Podcasts! It was a confluence of events that...
View ArticleDoomsday Clock #6, or, Master of Puppets
Superman and Doctor Manhattan! Batman and Rorschach! The Joker and The Comedian! The… Marionette? And the Mime? Geoff Johns’ and Gary Frank’s DC Comics/Watchmen crossover Doomsday Clock promised a slew...
View ArticleMission: Impossible – Fallout, or, Le Retour de Tommy C. Dans un Film...
All too often when we talk about cinema, that stuffy moniker reserved for only the finest of film, we fall back on the same few facets of the medium – writing and acting. Specifically, it seems that...
View ArticleDoomsday Clock #7, or, That Sinking Feeling
At long last, on the outset of the back half of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Doomsday Clock, Doctor Manhattan has been revealed, as has the site of his intrusion into the DC Universe. In Doomsday Clock...
View ArticleA Hallway Fight with Something to Say, or, Daredevil Season 3
I’m pretty far behind on the Netflix Marvel Microverse. I’m about two episodes into the season two of Jessica Jones, I haven’t started the second season of Luke Cage despite my best intentions to do so...
View ArticleDoomsday Clock #8, or, The Attic is Flooded
Spoilers ahead for Doomsday Clock #1-8 “Superman’s going to clear this all up and everything will be okay.” “I can trust Superman, Professor. Because everyone can.” “Superman speaks not for America,...
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