I think an argument I had has led to the opposition saying it's more important that Spider-Man is white than that he lives in New York City.

Swamp Thing is one of those characters who, like Buffy Summers, are kind of iconic despite never being huge, mainstream juggernauts. This is likely because of elements like an easy to remember name, a passionate fanbase, and having a niche that seems rather unoccupied ( Read more... )

I'm growing increasingly fed up with something I've been seeing a lot happen this month. People's growing disinterest in sticking with the laws of time and space, and deciding things mean what they want them to mean ( Read more... )

So Prince of Persia is not going to be the worst reviewed and most offensive movie about the Middle East this weekend. I wish I had a time machine so I could make some Biff Tannen money with wagers.

However, one thing Persia is drawing criticism on is the casting. That is, a lot of white people playing Middle Easterners. It's not getting quite as ( Read more... )

Last week's Lost was kind of controversial, with one of the complaints being "We don't want to spend time with new characters, we want to see what happens to the ones we've grown to care about." Now granted, I am having doubts about them wrapping things up --their economy of characters is like the economy of World War I Germany---I do wonder about ( Read more... )

Sorry ladies, this poll is just for the guys. All four of them.

Poll Arid Drag Queen-Off

So one of the news items going around is a group of boys were sent home for wearing star-spangled apparel on Cinco De MayoNow I think the administration pulled a major boner, no doubt about that. If nothing else, they should have warned the student body ahead of time. But as long-time readers know, I don't broach these subjects based on right or ( Read more... )

The The first still of Thor has popped up, and rather interestingly, it seems the God of Thunder is in his current costume from the comics. This is rather interesting, because this may be the first case of a superhero having their most recent costume change be the onscreen one in a live-action adaptation*. It's also something pretty rare to ( Read more... )

A lot of people ask why Americans tend to think the world revolves around them, or seem to know little about what occurs outside the U.S. We certainly have a special ting of jingoism, and our military strength is a large part of how we get thought of as a "superpower". But another reason is that, to a certain extent, the US is the result of some ( Read more... )

Working on The Medeival America blog, I eventually started imagining this big entire fantasy world based on Americana. It's a burning that never quite went out, and I started playing with more fantastic ideas. Of course, this soon evolved into looking at the more legend and folklore aspects of America. For the most part, it's been pretty ( Read more... )