The television and movie Writers Guild strike lurches into its ninth week. If it goes on much longer, we may be doomed to even more staged “reality” and contest shows. Might be a good time to rekindle a book reading habit. I’ve heard grumbling from folk who work that side of the street to the…
Happy New Year!! Ah, an election year! It’s time we express our will as Americans! It’s time we hear about all the grand new ideas that our candidates have to offer! It’s time after seven years of…eh…of… I’m not sure what the last seven years was about, but it’s time to…
Happy New Year!! Soon it will be 2008! An entire new year! A fresh start! A new beginning! A new lease on life! I love it, love it LOVE IT! Before my last rant of 07 begins, I should address some things. I’ve been asked repeatedly as to why my last two…
Danny and Fred were the last two kids in their grade to still believe in Santa Claus. Danny had first believed in Daddy, but he stopped when Daddy began to yell a lot, and drink whiskey, and throw things. So Danny could believe he had a father, because he could see a man coming and…
Last week I told a bittersweet Christmas story and this week I was going to give my Christmas list of stuff that I thought would make good gifts. Then… I remembered the young lady I met in an airport a while back. I never got her name but she told me she wants to be…
The combination of my temporary unemployment and inclement weather has enabled me to catch up on my DC comp box reading, so I can finally pick up where I left off a few weeks back. Mind you, I was looking at October books at the time and since then the November box came in. Still,…
Maybe we ought to retire the word “hero” and designate the characters whose needs and actions drive the story, more technically and accurately, as “the protagonist.” (You’ve guessed that we’re continuing our incredibly prolonged discussion of the evolution of superheroes? Good.) As mentioned in an earlier installment of this blather, the word “hero” is derived…
I LOVE CHRISTMAS! I love it, love it LOVE IT! It’s by far my favorite time of the year. When I was a kid my mother would always make sure we had a great Christmas no matter what. My mother had two jobs and was going to school year round. I learned years later that…
And on we plod, continuing our seemingly interminable discussion of the evolution of superheroes. This week, let’s leave the capes and masks and other such accoutrements, and the “super” prefix, in the trunk and concentrate on the hero part. First, a little oversimplification. Heroes come in two models: the authority-sanctioned kind, as embodied by King…
About a year and a half ago my very good friend Giselle Fernandez (yes that Giselle Fernandez) called and asked me to dinner because she wanted me to meet a young lady named Jasmine. Never one to pass up free food, I said yes. Truth be told if Giselle would have said; “Michael, Bigfoot is…
In my dotage, I’m coming to believe that a little adolescent rebellion is usually a good thing, and if the rebellion creeps a year or two into full, card-carrying adulthood, that’s okay. Much after the fact, I learned of some things my kid did in his Greenwich Village youth: I’m not sorry he did them…
This was supposed to be a lighthearted article about the wonderful time I had at Mid-Ohio Con and the “Geek List” my ComicMix colleagues and I came up with there. You know, Best Creative Team, Lee & Kirby. Best death of a superhero, Captain Marvel, etc. We came up with many great categories and it…
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