It’s the harrowing time of year again where you have to buy a Christmas gift for the special someone in your life. If it turns out you work for a living, and try to spend the rare moments when you’re not grinding away at the office or on a plane with your family, the pressure [...]
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The new DC 52
If you follow comics, you’ve heard about DC’s “New 52”, a fairly straightforward marketing plan that involves DC restarting all of their comics at #1, and retooling their universe to make it more accessible and new-reader friendly. Also buried in the plan is a day-and-date parity for digital comics, meaning that when the physical paper [...]
Why-Oh-Why Superman Reboot
For the record before we get into things, I didn’t mind Sucker Punch. It wasn’t a great movie, but it did surprise me that the same people who were perfectly fine with the giant mess that was Transformers 3 and Michael Bay were irritated with the lack of plot and coherence in Sucker Punch. Because [...]
The Avengers Franchise
I don’t have a lot of faith in ensemble films, which in the end is what the Avengers is. But done properly (and I have some confidence in the process thus far, and Marvel’s smart but not overbearing creative control) we may be looking at the most powerful franchise in films for the next decade. [...]
Raw Chicken
I enjoy Hell’s Kitchen. It’s my guilty pleasure. I tell people I work with that I enjoy winding down with a show more insane than my daily life, but there’s more to it than that. It’s not a smart show by any means; the format is identical every week (and lovely FOX manages to [...]
Managing up, commentary
Every company has their own culture and style, and you can tell a great deal by how people interact with their boss. I’ve been fascinated by the cultural changes I’ve experienced as I’ve moved up the corporate chain, and now with nowhere else to go it’s interesting to watch people interact and manipulate around me [...]
It doesn’t pay to be a woman in comics
I’ve been aware of the site “Women in Refrigerators” for some time; it’s a quick and dirty website devoted to the massive amount of dickery (no pun intended) that goes on with female characters in comics. Originally conceived over 10 years ago by a group that included (not yet with DC) writer Gail Simone (who [...]
Oh hai Fantastic Two
Spoilers ahead; although this falls into the category of super weak spoilers. Apparently in the next issue of Fear Itself the Thing gets a hammer thrown through him, which isn’t quite enough to get anyone to really care about Matt Fraction’s “Fear Itself” story arc five issues in, but it does beg the question [...]
Paris, apparently the best place to have awkward affairs
According to a recent MSNBC/Today article, Paris is the best place for executives to have an affair at while on a business trip. Runners-up included Milan, Barcelona, Brussels, London and Geneva. The survey was limited to Europe (which explains a few things) and I’m not commenting on the relative smartness of cheating on your spouse [...]
Total Recall remake keeps the T’s in their T&A
I’m not sure exactly why the world was caring, but the Collider reports that the Total Recall remake WILL include the infamous “three breasted woman” from the original film. The movie apparently will have several major deviations from the original, like the fact that they aren’t going to Mars and a big part [...]
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