Waititi has me pretty excited for Ragnarok based on his resume and now this short. It's weird that the first two Thor films have been so bad (well, the first one was OK but definitely not as good as it could have been) when there are legions of incredible Thor stories by Kirby and Simonson to mine and only a handful…

I feel like the real-life Jimmy Stewart was as good of a guy as his typecast roles were. I remember when I was a little kid, my parents wanted to go to the Jimmy Stewart museum in Indiana, PA and I thought I would be bored out of my mind but he really had a fascinating life and career.

But Phelps and Bolt can give coherent press conferences and are kind of fun and charming. I don't know what their IQs are, but they're at least aware of why people might admire them and what kind of face to put on for the public (as are most Olympians that you've ever seen interviewed). Lochte is just mind-blowingly…

Virtually every comic title with the name "Frankenstein" in it actually stars Frankenstein's monster. Also, "The Demon" is a description of the character named Etrigan. The Sandman refers to Morpheus… there's more of these than I thought.

To be fair, he wrote the endings to his Animal Man and Doom Patrol runs.

Actually, I apologize for that - the list really isn't pretentious upon a second glance. I think the concentration of a couple of very-small-press and/or foreign titles at the end made it seem like it put a higher premium on low accessibility than it actually does. There's good representation amongst publishers and…

Anathema was the word she was looking for, maybe? That fancy word trouble reinforces my perception of this list's pretentiousness.

Tom Petty is the perfect guy for a greatest hits collection because he reliably writes 1 to 2 great songs per album, but the quality of the rest of the album is hugely variable. I can see why the piece refers to him as "remarkably consistent" and "spotty" in the post-2000 years. Although I've found his Mudcrutch…

I like Tony Visconti, so I'm a bit biased, but it seemed like what he meant to say by invoking her name is that dumb modern production styles give an inhuman sheen even to powerful voices like Adele's which need no propping up. He didn't say it too eloquently, though.

Jeopardy! was the most anticipated part of my day yesterday because I predicted this would happen. Not knowing who Louis L'Amour was kind of made me nervous for Louis's chances, but he proved me right in the end. I mean, a Jeopardy! win isn't exactly a direct proxy for someone's intelligence, but I think that…

Now we just need the guy from Corman's FF to make the "failed Human Torch to MCU success story" a standard career route.

Caitlin's comment made me literally say "oh, come ON" out loyd while I was reading this. When Spider-Man is in costume, you can't tell that he's a straight white guy; you can only tell that he's a super-hero. When the reader/viewer sees that costume come off, he/she realizes that even though Spidey's a super-hero,…

The Marvel Studios movies are definitely a bit formulaic and I feel like this movie is the perfection of that formula. It's kind of natural then to raise all of the criticisms of that formula and want to apply them to this movie, but because it's such a great distillation of Marvel movies, a lot of the good criticisms…

I used to think that I liked Dookie and hated everything else that Green Day did because they were soooooo mainstream, but then I heard their Foxboro Hot Tubs album on Little Steven's Underground Garage and realized they are and always have been a solid band and that I was a snob and also kind of dumb for not…

I've never understood the jokes about how Obama is too "cerebral" or "aloof." I'm not the biggest fan of all his policies, but he just seems like a cool dude, a good man, and a class act* which we need in American politics. A less feckless (politically) Jimmy Carter, if you will.

As much as I love All-Star Superman, I feel obligated to point out that there are thousands of other great Superman stories. The Cary Bates/Elliott S! Maggin stories from the 70s are amazing (and one of those stories' titles was used for this video). Also, the appearances of Superman in the early Fourth World stories…

This sounds like a good comic. I'll have to check it out; the price tag and Rocafort's art didn't compel me to pick up the first few issues but I love Ward. A couple comments on the background stuff: it's pretty sad/crazy there's some awful behavior from the comics industry while superhero comics (for me) were crucial…

Oh come now; Airboy was really, really good. Offensive and crude? Yes, but also very good.

This one's actually an adaptation of the book, right? The Favreau one was a CGI adaptation of the animated movie if I remember correctly. This could actually be interesting. I know that Serkis is known for acting in mo-cap, but I think, based on his performance as Ian Dury, that he really knows how to give and get…

I haven't seen the movie, but I will say that I don't think that the initial toxic press around the film was what killed it. I think the awfulness of the whole thing was what done it in, if reviews from people who weren't childhood FF fans are any indication. I LOVE the Fantastic Four and the larger-than-life…