The whole thing feels like it’s just gotten out of control. First Scrabble was created and everyone played with the words they knew and their own creativity but someone was tired of losing came in and learned all these obscure non-words to kick ass in Scrabble. To stay competitive, everyone else had to learn all the…

“Nothing in the rulebook says you can’t” should only apply when we are trying to determine if the cute Labrador is allowed to join the game or not.

Interesting, similar to a hemingway daiquiri (minus the grapefruit) but I’m a little skeptical of the given proportions.  Maraschino liqueur can easily overwhelm everything else and i’m having a hard time imagining that 1 oz of maraschino to 1 oz of rum wont taste overwhelmingly of maraschino.

Real missed opportunity by not making it look like Toad.

I’m not surprised Batman is right-leaning.

Shouldn’t it have a cowl?

Or... maybe in the hopelessness that has been a part of every day life for the vast majority of Americans since the economic crash and beyond, it’s nice to have fantasies of heroes who actually care about us? That there’s a group of people who don’t have to care, have the power to do whatever they want, and yet they…

Another way to put it as that there’s not much to be deduced from the fact that very large sets have overlaps.

You’d actually be surprised how liberal and open minded comic fans are, but sure, generalize because you want to feel superior. Most fandoms have loud terrible voices, but they’re usually a minority. The values comics are built on are quite liberal when it comes right down to it, just like Star Wars. There are vocal…

On the other hand, it should be pointed out that the Marvel movies make a point, probably intentionally, that strength and violence don’t actually solve all your problems. In fact, in spite of all their strengths their almost-omnipotence the protagonists fail in spectacular ways in Age of Ultron, Civil War and…

Well if you’re going there, It’s not that big a leap to just as easily dismiss The Dark Knight as “Heat, but with Superheroes” (Nolan’s openly acknowledged the influence Heat had on TDK)

I would argue that, assuming you’re correct and that Logan isn’t already a valid piece of art, super hero films are still in the infancy relatively-speaking. Compare the modern super hero film to a western in the 40's or 50's and you might find that the Western was, at one point, basically a rom-com for teenage boys…

Look, I’m not a fan of comic book movies, and I’m a film snob, and hell, just look at my name and avatar, but even I rolled my eyes a bit when Hawke invoked Bergman and Bresson.

Do you think sci-fi and fantasy are inherently worse at revealing truths about humanity because of all the nonhuman characters?

Logan, in particular, was about facing mortality and reckoning with a life’s work and purpose. I don’t know what could be more human than that.

They can't all be classics like the remake of assault on precinct 13.

I will be linking to this article (and the previous one) for my students during the fall semester when I cover the subject of plagiarism. I try to have a new “real-world” story for them every semester, to demonstrate that plagiarism has professional and legal consequences well beyond the academic sphere, and this one…

2 words: Pokemon

I do: Competition!