Consulting the Norns: Fate and Free-Will in God of War
“Fate is a lie told by the gods.”
The Moral Philosophy of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War
How Thanos’ disagrees with Steve Roger’s mantra “We don’t trade lives”
The Dialectic of Killmonger, Wakanda, and T’Challa in Black Panther
On the competing ideologies of Killmonger and Wakanda in Black Panther and their ultimate synthesis in T’Challa
A New Direction for The Hub City Review
Regular readers will have noted that the Hub City Review had gone relatively dark in 2018. I’m finally ready to reveal the reason for this long silence. I’ve said from the start of this site that its primary purpose was as a portfolio; I always wanted to move onto bigger and better opportunities in the…
The Philosophy of Black Museum
Here’s the link to my first video that I wrote for Wisecrack exploring narrative empathy in the the Black Mirror Season 4 finale, Black Museum: Wisecrack QuickTake: Black Mirror: What’s the Point
Doomsday Clock #2
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
Snyder Gets Even More Meta in Metal #4
Snyder sees the thin divide between awe and awful, between textual and metatextual. Then he burns dow that divide to ashes.
“The Last Jedi” succeeds in surpassing the legends that inspired it
Future generations will cite Episode VIII as “the spark that ignites the fires” of their imaginations.
Klaus and the Crisis in Xmasville
Klaus is Christmas’ Superman, replete with red cape, an indefatigable product of the greatest imagination of our generation, a perfectly designed emblem of highest selves.
Doomsday Clock #1
After years of an admixture of apprehension and anticipation for the inevitable continuation of Watchman, Doomsday Clock #1 does not disappoint.
