I Can’t Believe I Forgot To Post…….
Sunday, April 6th, 2008………..trailers for “The Dark Knight” and “The Incredible Hulk.”
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A 4-D(!) Movie, Touch-Screens All Over The Place……
Sunday, April 6th, 2008…..you’ll just have to see the Newseum for itself. I just can’t do it justice.
“Amazing Power, Ooo, Iron Man!”
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Yet another reason I’ll be LIVING at the theater this summer.
Two Networks, A New Comicbook…….
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Can anything stop “Doctor Who” and its spinoffs “Torchwood” and “The Sarah Jane Adventures” other than them being worn out?
Here’s the link to the new “Doctor Who” comicbook. And if you like cartoons, here.
P.S. If you liked the Peter Davison take on the character, you’ll like this. Then you can watch this—until it’s gone. […]
Hooray For Charlie Brown!
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Book Reviews: “Incognegro” and “Democracy With A Gun: America And The Policy Of Force”
Monday, November 26th, 2007Two book reviews. The first is fiction, the second nonfiction.
The Horror Of Lynching (And The Power Of ‘Passing’), Through The Eyes Of The Black Press
Incognegro.
By Mat Johnson (Writer) and Warren Pleece (Illustrator).
New York: Vertigo/DC Comics.
136 pages. $19.99.
ISBN-10: 140121097X
ISBN-13: 978-1401210977
It’s become a cliché to say that both lynching and “passing” are parts of the African-American experience […]
What?!? No More Kids’ WB!?!?
Monday, October 8th, 2007And then, in 2008, there was none. Damn. Money really does talk, and talk well, huh? DAMN! What happened to subsidizing your BRANDS? Oh, that’s right; the network is the CW now. Boy, am I naive! LOL!
Clearly, after 16 years of geek bliss, it’s finally time to leave the house on Saturday mornings. […]
Book Review: “Sentences: The Life Of M.F. Grimm”
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007SENTENCES: The Life of MF Grimm
By Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly
Vertigo Books/DC Comics
$19.99, ISBN: 978-1-4012-1046-5
He was thisclose to getting out of The Life for good before the bullets came for his spine. But Percy Carey himself makes it hard to feel sorry for him before and after he was paralyzed from the waist down. Carey […]
“In Humble Sacrifice” :)
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Glad “Today’s Word” is back.
(And Dear Lord, I miss “Calvin and Hobbes.”)
TODAY’S WORD ON JOURNALISM — Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007
“In the world of television, the massive flows of information are largely in only one direction, which makes it virtually impossible to take part in what passes for a national conversation. Individuals receive, but they cannot […]
VERY Quick Reviews Of Black Panther Nos. 24-29 and Fantastic Four 544-548
Friday, August 24th, 2007The above—a Fantastic Four briefly led by T’Challa, with significant backup from Storm—was probably the only good thing to come out of Marvel Comics’ Civil War.
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BLACK PANTHER 24-29
WRITER: Reginald Hudlin
PENCILLERS: Marcus To and Koi Turbull (24); To (25); Francis Portela (26-27; pencils and inks on 28-29);
INKERS: Don Ho, Jeff de los Santos (24-25), Sal Regla […]