On the one hand, it would be interesting to view this video from the perspective of someone who didn't have an innate resistance to the "New 52"—a small child, perhaps, for whom there isn't an established 75-year backstory.

Richmond Naval Air Station in Miami was the second largest blimp base after New Jersey. It was largely destroyed in a fire after a severe storm hit, though one of the corner towers from the hangars survives today. If you want to see it, you can visit Zoo Miami and the adjacent Gold Coast Railway Museum which were…

I am a high school English teacher at a Christian school. I have faith in God and trust in science, and I see no contradiction in that position.

Classrooms won't change significantly, but teaching will. We will move more and more from a teacher-centric to student-centric learning experience. Here's why. Our world is becoming one in which it is easier and easier to access information, process it using technological tools, and create something new with it. …

I agree that What If? had some wonderfully thought-provoking stories. One of my favorites (though I haven't read it in years—it probably hasn't aged any better than I have) is "What If? The Fantastic Four had different super powers?" It doesn't sound earth-shaking, I admit, but it took one of Stan Lee's…

Cypher's gift for languages wouldn't be useless if, say, one were writing an article about the X-men and needed a good proofreader. (Sorry. Low-hanging fruit).

Not to quibble over little points when there's so much more wrong with this musical, but technically, Uncle Ben only says that line in the movie—it's in the panel narration in the comics.

For a really in-depth look at the significance of the transit of Venus to the history of astronomy, I recommend Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf. It details how Edmond Halley's prediction in 1716 of a transit to take place on June 6, 1761, sparked a worldwide (somewhat) cooperative effort…

Saying that Lee deserves only 10% of the credit because because he was only a bombastic marketer is like saying Steve Jobs shouldn't get any credit for the iPod.

Clearly, it's a Sun-Eater. Please contact Ferro Lad NOW and have him get the bomb ready.

The Lois Lane of the Fleischer shorts, though not really well-defined in every one of them, wasn't just bumbling into danger and being rescued most of the time. She got into trouble and Superman often flew in, but she generally got into trouble by doing something brave or discovering a plot on her own. She was…

Guys, it's pretty obvious how he really did it. As you'll recall, the little girl was scared of Sherlock—that's because Moriarty had a double of him. It was the double who went off the roof. The favor of the coroner was to identify the body as his. Elementary.

The simplest and clearest way to define tone, I think, is that it is the authors apparent attitude toward the subject matter. Those writers and directors who manage what we think of as "tonal shifts" get away with it because they make all of it real enough to us that it feels like life as you describe it: happy one…

What they should have done was taken the movie they had planned and do it ENTIRELY in CG—including the actors. The director had the skill to make that movie, and it could have been an awesome visual feast. If not completely new (it would kind of hearken back to rotoscope animation), it would have been at the very…

I've been greatly blessed over the years, but there have been few moments in my life that filled me with as much glee as receiving this playset on a long-ago Christmas morning.

Please tell me you mean this ironically...

And that, I think, is one of the main reasons it WON'T get made—at least not with her being called Captain Marvel. I think the long-time legal wranglings over that name could get sticky again if used in a different context. (To be honest, I'd love to see a Shazam! movie, too...).

I agree—but do I HAVE to be the Brosephine in this relationship?

I'm not sure what you think it tells you about me, but perhaps if you re-read my post you'll see that I'm saying the fundamental elements of storytelling in general are pretty basic: here's the way things are; then here's something that happens that changes that; then here's some other stuff that happens as a result;…

Actually, while it might not be fair to say that every story follows the hero's journey, it is usually the case—especially in contemporary Hollywood film—that elements of the hero's journey shape the story. That's because Campbell's examinations looked at elements very broadly. Other ways of looking at the structure…