The Year That Was My 2020
To paraphrase Dickens: “It was the worst of times. Just the f****** worst.”
Is Mattmas Pagan? How the early Thérians decided the date.
Debunking the common myth
The Year That Was My 2019
“Were all of it written down, I suppose that the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
Doomsday Clock is more of a “Fuck You” to Moore than HBO’s Watchmen
Johns’ reconstruction of the superhero genre which Watchmen deconstructed directly undermines Moore’s message
“The Rise of Skywalker” leaves fans in need of a new hope
In the parallels between the originals and Abrams’ sequels, the latter are always a poor copy of the former.
Pokémon Sword & Shield: The Very Best, Like No Game Ever Was?
Game Freak’s excuses hold about as much water as a Carkoal can carry in its coal cart: none whatsoever
“Let it go” with the anti-colonialism in Frozen 2
Frozen 2 valorizes the descendants of colonialists fixating on the sins of their ancestors and sacrificing their own society in reparation to the descendents of colonized peoples.
Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Art or Smut?
“Fiction and Fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.”
The Real Blaspheme of Mark Russell’s “Second Coming”
Second Coming is didactic to the point that the message gets in the way of solid storytelling.
The Arcs of Characters and Human History in Avengers: Endgame
The character arcs of Marvel’s Big three parallel prominent views regarding the shape of history.
Aladdin is Not Quite a Whole New World, Thankfully
The old world was just fine, and just enough of it still shines through
