A lot of the reviews for Semi-Pro and the previews for Step Brothers talk about Will Ferrell’s luck in comedy, and how some movies end up in the must see pile (Old School, Anchorman) and others are to be avoided like they’re airborne AIDS (Kicking and Screaming, Bewitched).

Blades of Glory keeps ending up in the list of must-sees by various ( Read more... )

It takes quite a bit to lead.  There’s a lot to be said about being brilliant, but there’s also some intangibles required to be the head that wears the crown.  Here are some of the various people who just didn’t have what it takes.

Gaius Baltar: Battlestar Galactica - Got elected President of the Twelve Colonies, and after spearheading his single ( Read more... )

Jesus Christ.  I am twenty four fucking years old.  How in the hell do I sprain my ankle stepping into a fucking hole?

I wasn’t even that drunk.

Fuck.

Matt

Mad Scientist time.  He’s got two new powers for you to choose from, as always, the powers are just that, there are no strength boosts, speed boosts, or anything else.

You have your choice of:

A.)    The ability to cling to walls a la Spider-man.  You can crawl up them sneaky like, or just walk up them like a person.  However, your core strength is ( Read more... )

I’m out of town, doing family stuff, and am currently using my cell phone to link myself to the internet.  Hopefully it won’t crap out on me.  Anyway, I’m writing my daily entries, but they may have to wait to be uploaded on Monday should this prove unreliable.

Here’s a list of things you should be reading:

“American Shaolin” by Matthew Polly - You ( Read more... )

Small week, but there’s a return of Grant Morrison’s All Star Superman, which is one of the best superhero books, period, and Ivan Reis returns to art duties on Green Lantern.

EDIT: I incorrectly credited Michael Lark with the art in this month's Daredevil.  It was drawn, quite well, might I add, by Paul Azaceta.  No one reads these entries, but ( Read more... )

Do you think Bill Gates wants for anything?  Is there something out there that he’s got his eye on and every time he sees it, he thinks to himself, “hmmm, maybe next time?”

If I had access to his money, call it 60 billion, and after I bought all the cars, big screen TVs, and giant homes all over the worlds, here’s what I’d spend the money on:

-       ( Read more... )

I’ve been watching a lot of old episodes of the “the Simpsons,” and while it isn’t new to complain that the last decent season was almost ten years ago, I think I’ve discovered something crucial to writing good episodes.

Homer Simpson must take everything very, very, very personal.

“I hate you, Walt ‘Freaking’ Whitman!  Leaves of green my ass!”

Not ( Read more... )

I’m a big believer in the idea that when it comes to art, each movement is a response to the previous one.  The films in the late 1960’s and 1970’s and the auteur style were a response to the studio system in Hollywood.  Disco was a response to 1960’s rock, and punk’s unpolished rawness a reaction to over-produced disco, and hair metal’s style over ( Read more... )

Not many out this week, but everything was really good.  Definitely one of those weeks that reminds you why you read comics.

Not many out this week, but everything was really good.  Definitely one of those weeks that reminds you why you read comics.

Captain America #36 - Bucky’s long march toward being the new Captain America continues.  He’s got the ( Read more... )