Originally published on Facebook 24 January 2015. Revised. Wandering about in the house with the Adam West BATMAN on TV for background noise, I had a thought I’ve had before: You know what would be really, really grotesque? Switching Batmen and their Gotham Cities. Imagine plopping Adam West’s Batman down in the dark and corrupt […]
Originally published on Facebook 21 October 2014. Despite it being accepted as a given by everybody who ever mentions it, the CASABLANCA TV series starring David Soul was not some one-of-a-kind, historical icon of awfulness. Really. It wasn’t. It wasn’t terrible at all. It just wasn’t special. Nor was it the crazy stupid thing TV […]
Some folks of the conservative bent are throwing public snits over Marvel’s SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, in which the current Cap, a black man, fights white supremacists. They take open offense at this, saying among other things that superhero comics are no place for politics. Now, this is shooting fish in a barrel. I […]