How could you not mention that December of 1999 saw the beginning of the epic X-Men: The Twelve, revealing that the long running tease about the 12 most important mutants in history was revealed to be....a plot between Apocalypse and the Skrulls to build a machine to occupy Cable’s body. People bitch about the 90s…

Not all the other heroes were dead in Age of Apocalypse but most were unpowered. There was a two-issue miniseries at the time that followed a resistance movement comprised of Tony Stark, Gwen Stacy, Ben Grimm and I don’t remember who else. It might’ve been Carlos Pacheco’s first work for Marvel, but I’m not sure. It…

It’s just one of those things you have to accept in shared comic book universes, that the main characters have to fight their own fights even though logically other characters should notice what’s going on and show up to lend a hand. It’s less noticeable in comics themselves because everyone has their own monthly…

It’s also a revisit to Kirby’s original idea for the Kree - a mysterious alien race that visited in pre-history and mucked about with human genetics. In the earliest appearances of the Inhumans in Fantastic Four, the Kree were definitely presented as being more along the lines of the Celestials -ancient and mysterious…

It’s also a revisit to Kirby’s original idea for the Kree - a mysterious alien race that visited in pre-history and mucked about with human genetics. In the earliest appearances of the Inhumans in Fantastic Four, the Kree were definitely presented as being more along the lines of the Celestials -ancient and mysterious…

Looking forward to Mike Milligan’s origin story. Hopefully there’ll be a flash forward or two so we can get more Bokeem Woodbine.

A friend of mine once found a professionally framed movie poster for the original Backdraft at a Goodwill and was so amused/astonished that someone went to the trouble and expense of having the poster for fucking Backdraft framed (and then dumped it at Goodwill only a handful of years later) that he had to buy it. I…

Pullitzer Prize for the most unintentionally accurate book title of the year.

They did. But the Republican candidate for governor was also conveniently the person in charge of counting the votes.

I imagine I’m a decade or two older than Tom, so I have a much more affectionate view of this movie than he seems to, due to having seen it every six months or so on the Sunday afternoon movie when I was younger. But the part that always gets a chuckle out of me is when characters spout lines of dialogue that likely…

Minor typo in the article, unless I've woken up in some crazy mirror universe where Jim Belushi is interesting enough to rate a biopic.

The culmination of the Great Season o’ Culling the Characters For Whom We Have No Idea What Martin’s Plans Are. Which is fine, since at this point it’s pretty obvious Martin has no idea, either, which is why he’s taken to describing the writing process as hellish.

My issue with Dark World - which I actually like just fine and think has some cool sequences, including Heimdall’s most badass moment - is that it’s one of the entries in the MCU (Age of Ultron being the other most notable) where the balance between telling its own story vs. setting up events in the bigger MCU feels…

The top 5 shows whose untimely ends I will never stop mourning:

It’s definitely the season where they looked at their character list and thought “Holy crap, we’ve got to start thinning these people out!,” thus Roose, Mrs. Roose, Osha, Rickon and others got abruptly fed to the Ain’t Ramsey Crazy??? meatgrinder.

Based on major roles that have yet to have casting announced, I’d bet Stephen Henderson is playing Dr. Kynes, but Thufir Hawat is a possibility.

When I was a grade school kid back in the early-70s, I endured all sorts of ridicule for enjoying a bag of plain M&Ms with a bag of salted peanuts, instead of the (then) more socially acceptable option of Peanut M&Ms. Now that the rest of the world has caught up with the secret of sweet+salty and M&Ms can be bought…

They left Pete Shelley out of the In Memoriam. Fuck the Grammys.

I couldn’t hum a single Ariana Grande song if someone stuck a gun to my head and demanded I do so, but I have to admit I kinda like her as a celebrity. Her scandals have been genuinely quirky - licking a doughnut while declaring hatred for America, a brief engagement to a seemingly charisma-free doofus (I know nothing…

My favorite cat song is “Wop-A-Din-Din” by Red House Painters.