Wow, that’s uncanny. I haven’t seen St Elmo’s Fire but I may have to. I definitely got the Kiefer Sutherland vibe, especially from Stand By Me.

I had the chance to meet Mr Bendis at a convention. He was gracious, thoughtful, and funny. I liked him immediately. His work on comics however, is a mixed bag. For every book he worked on that I absolutely love, there is another that I can’t stand to ever read again. Perhaps leaving Marvel is a good thing and a…

You’re right. Serling definitely tooled the Twilight Zone as a speculative fiction anthology. I always thought of it as horror/fantasy as there were stories that embodied both genres and sometimes beyond. The best episodes could fill you with wonder and fear and often at the same time. Serling set a high standard for…

Twilight Zone is great but later versions of the show were a mixed bag. Part of the problem is the nostalgia of the writers caused them to look back instead of forward. The original show captured the spirit of the times, The Cold War, mutually assured destruction, racial inequity/unrest, and xenophobia were present in…

For a hot minute, pre-New 52, it looked like the JLA was going to include Black Lightning along with another Outsider, Geo-Force. There was promotional art made for that line-up and then it kind of disappeared before Flashpoint. It’s like DC just shelved everything it was working on for the New 52, and then Rebirth to…

I love the character but I only really knew him from Batman & The Outsiders, a great book but Black Lightning was more of a supporting cast member there. I tracked down some of the back issues, for a while you could get them on the cheap, and they’re pretty good. A little dated but solid storytelling and art. I hope…

I think Carpenter was trying to make a movie that became associated with the holiday like with Christmas movies. Some people watch It’s a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Story, or Elf around Christmas. Personally, I watch Diehard. For Halloween I always watch Halloween, sometimes the sequel too.  

I always thought Top Gun was pretty gay. I mean that in the best way possible.

You’re absolutely right. Billy may indeed swing both ways but I have a feeling that Hawkins, IN circa 1984 doesn’t have too many openly LGBTQ folks in town.

Yeah, I definitely got the impression that the step-dad was a major asshole.

I kinda loved him too! He was uncannily the scuzzy rocker kid who pushed me around when I was in junior high, circa 1987. I think the Duffer Bros. will try to subvert or twist the cliched 80's bully kid by adding in something different to make him a somewhat sympathetic or non-traditional villain.

I can’t really disagree with anything in this post but I do feel that Max and Billy were used well and I think both will be significant in the next season. That may be part of the problem, their presence in season two was mostly a set up for season three. Max and her relationship with Lucas and Dustin, the horrible…

The atheists kicked god outta city hall, school, and Christmas. Now they kicked god outta sneezing.

I remember being pretty excited to see this when it came out. Wes Craven was on a crest of a horror wave and Eddie Murphy was still an enormous star then. I hoped Vampire In Brooklyn would walk the line of a horror comedy like John Landis’s American Werewolf In London, one of my all time favorite movies.

So Nate Simpson’s Nonplayer is being made into movie? The first issue came out in 2011. The second issue came out four years later. Issue 3 hasn’t dropped yet, no one knows when or if it will, and at this point I don’t know if anybody cares any more.

Guess there were holograms before TOS and the Enterprise just didn’t have them?

If you’re going to check out Zappa I think “Hot Rats” is a good place to start. “Freak Out!” is a good, hard rockin’ first album from The Mothers Of Invention. “Joe’s Garage” was my favorite as a kid for all the goofiness and innuendo, but I don’t have the patience or stamina for anyone’s 3 album opus anymore.  

Whoops! I should have used Dick-Bat. My bad.

I really enjoyed the short lived pairing of Dick Grayson as Batman with Damian Wayne as Robin. Bat-Dick was a happier Batman with a devil may care attitude in contrast to Damian as the dark, brooding Robin. It was a fun twist. Even better was seeing him in the JLA. It was a refreshing change.

The Marvel heroes have always been different from other super heroes in that they are multi-faceted characters with individual definitions of right and wrong. Namor could be heroic at times but was usually an antagonist to the FF or the Avengers. Same goes for the Hulk. too. As heroic as Spiderman is he was always on…