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The Longest Eight Weeks

I don’t want to steal Josh’s thunder, but the comics page in today’s Rocky Mountain News really freaked me out and I have to talk about it. First up, Classic Peanuts:

Am I wrong in intrepreting this as sexual innuendo? In an old Peanuts strip?!? Or maybe my mind is just in a [...]

With Great Power…

I realize I probably think about these types of things more often than is healthy or normal, but I can’t help myself. They fascinate me. Here’s the conundrum. Let’s say you have a super-power – let’s take invisibility in this example. And let’s also say that 1) In order for everyone [...]

So Long, Superman

The winter of ‘78 was a magical time… blah blah blah… believe a man could fly… husky-voiced Margot Kidder… Ned Beatty? Why oh why? And Chris Reeve in that shiny colorful suit, catching that falling helicopter. As a comic book geek, it was the first movie I saw where I felt they [...]

Funnies Will Tear Us Apart, Again

This morning while eating breakfast, I come to find out that the comic strip Go Fish (a one-panel strip about a psychiatrist and his family drawn by the Fusco Brothers guy and which is not particularly funny) has been replaced in the Rocky Mountain News by a strip called Prickly City. After reading today’s [...]

Spotted Minds

Time for the latest media reviews. I get into Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (slight spoilers included) and the comic book (not the TV show) Alias. Read on, if you dare (care?)…

Why we don’t live in a comic book world

It’s a common enough question – it’s asked all the time. If you could have any superpower, what it would be? It kind of bugs me when people just rattle off an answer without thinking about it. There’s almost always a downside to the most popular ones…

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