At what point are we allowed to be legitimately alarmed by this? I feel like we’re about a year or two away from the headlines turning to things like, “Yes, The New Boston Dynamics Robots Have Skull Faces And Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing” and “Boston Dynamics Spokesperson Calms Public Concerns About Reports Of Blood-…

I’ll add columns “When Romance Met Comedy”, “Popcorn Champs”. So many more. Anyhow. I get gripe-y too, I don’t want to come here and see vaguely culture-related outrage stuff I see everywhere else, even if it’s fully on my side of the aisle. But at the heart of it, so much good writing in there, and I find lots of…

Yes, this is why I’m asking for a new term. It’s neither plagiarism nor original work. “Reporting on reporting” is not the same as “reporting.”

While Yaz’s supposedly shockingly titled course, “Sex And The Novel,” might be perceived as scandalous in period series like Mad Men or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, it would hardly raise an eyebrow in the academic landscape of 2021.

I hadn’t considered that Snopes had joined the rank of “fake news” with the Trumpers, but my first thought as well was that it’s unfortunate this happened, given what I thought to be a pretty good reputation of theirs. Obviously it’s not the be-all/end-all of information, but it’s reliably sourced, and the tone and…

“ too many classes are under-enrolled”

It’s tough because race is a SOCIAL construct. I’m part Mexican through one of my parents, but was not raised in any sort of cultural connection to that parent’s heritage. I’m not only white passing, you couldn’t tell I have a biological Mexican parent (who themself and family members all look Hispanic/Latinx) by…

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that a Hollywood studio approved a movie about a rapist becoming a heroic figure, considering the company they keep.

Virtue signaling, on MY internet!?

Sam writes “there is something to be said” and then fails to actually say much of anything (other than he’s only just now coming around to understanding the premise of What If?).

Had the change not been made: “there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel refused to replace a man with a woman in its promotional materials, especially in light of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit and Disney’s tone-deaf media response.”

“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

So if I’m reading this correctly, the problem is that Marvel temporarily replaced the promotional Twitter account avatar of a character whose show dropped several months ago with a different character whose show dropped last night?

Your articles starts with:

I honestly can’t even imagine any way they could do a live action version of PPG with any semblance of the original’s charm, style, or overall feel. 

The absolute best What If from the original run, and I will not hear arguments about this, is the Invisible Woman dying in childbirth one. Yes, there’s a fridging back before we even knew the term, but hear me out.

The funeral scenes with Johnny, Ben and Reed breaking down and with Ben’s private thoughts about how he…

Maybe they should have you write these instead of Sam.

And to a lessor, lessor extent, Kick-Ass

“Superhero movie, but silly” isn’t exactly breaking fresh ground

Now that superhero movies have gone from disreputable entertainment for children to global events ushered in with awed reverence, it was time for someone to come along and pop the balloon.

He’s among the Sam Worthingtons and Jai Courtneys of the world to me, ie. the Boring Lead Men Who Must Be Stopped, although ironically it was the last Suicide Squad that actually almost took Courtney off that list for me, with his goofy scenery chewing Captain Boomerang.