August 2011
19 posts
Superman vs. Batman. Repeat.
Andrew Weiss has already done a pretty good job of explaining why Justice League #1 doesn’t hit the mark I think it should — in short, the creators had this one chance to hook new readers, and they really didn’t do it because this issue doesn’t even really outline the big threat from Darkseid — but I wanted to go a little deeper into how the issue closes, so if you...
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“You say you want JUSTICE. I say you’re out of your LEAGUE.”
– Darkseid, to the just-gathered, as-yet-unnamed Justice League, in Justice League #1, or so I would guess
Doctor Who.
This is supposed to be a blog about comedy and comics, I know, and Doctor Who isn’t exactly either of those. But it’s kind of both, too. That’s especially true of the comics aspect. In the last two years, head writer Steven Moffat has turned the show into one, multi-season superstory about the Doctor, Amy, Rory, River Song and their ever-more-familial relationships.
And for...
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"Curb Your Enthusiasm" this season.
The night the instant-classic “Palestinian Chicken” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (pictured above) aired, pal Benjamin Birdie tweeted this:
“So I guess it goes Great Curb, Shitty Curb, Great Curb…does that mean next week’s stinks?”
I don’t entirely agree with Birdie’s assessment that the second episode of the season, “The Safe...
