Justice League is Dumb Fun, for Better and for (mostly) Worse

The film failed to live up to the expectations of the American pantheon sharing the silver screen at long last, and yet there was never a moment I felt anything short of euphoria.

NYCC Friday: ComiXology, Theology, Some Booze, and a Bit of Poison…

I felt the closest thing to love at first sight that the pieces of my long-broken heart are capable of experiencing… in our Dionysian drunkenness we did not realize how rowdy our revelry had been.

NYCC Thursday: Musings on meeting Ta-Nehisis, the Power Rangers, the CBLDF, and more

Despite being poisoned, I still managed to make more of NYCC than absolutely any other convention goer there

Metal #3 pits the Dark Knights vs. The Worlds’ Greatest Detective

Snyder’s thesis is this: Batman would not be made better by having powers; such would prove a crutch, over-reliance on which would cripple Bruce’s brilliance.

Playing the Detective in Dark Nights: Metal #2

Snyder’s sensational storytelling is reward enough, but the chance to crack the case while working alongside the World’s Greatest Detective adds all the more satisfaction.

Don’t let Durham be the Latest Chapter in The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The vandalism and destruction called for or committed recently evidence an eagerness to follow Rome along the same self-destructive path from civility to savagery.

Metal #1 pays appropriate attention to word meanings given that the big bad is a curse word made manifest

From the Big Bang to the Big Freeze, there was Batman and there was Barbatos, the ultimate enemy and the greatest evidence as to just how expansive the Batman mythos extends.

Dark Days: The Casting forges a strong foundation for Metal

Snyder and Tynion pull on dozens of similar threads from the works of earlier writers to weave a grand tapestry nearly unequaled in its ambition… The genius of building a narrative around a theme such as Metal is that it’s so elemental as to be ubiquitous across the pre-existing mythology with which they’re working.

The Importance of Criticism

Man’s highest purpose is to officiate the marriage of Matter to Meaning. His second highest is the appreciation and enjoyment of all the wondrous works begotten by this union.

Baby Driver is the Antithesis of Fast and the Furious

Baby Driver never for a minute romanticized the violence which drive its high-octane action sequences, not only removing the glamour from the car-crime genre, but soberingly showing the consequences of such a lawless lifestyle.