Happiness through misdirection
A look at the Marvel comics of Al Ewing, part 1 A look at the Marvel comics of Al Ewing, part 2 Ultimate We saw in New Avengers where White Tiger and Power Man ended up after Mighty Avengers, but what about the rest of the team? Well, Blue Marvel and Spectrum join the Ultimates,…
A look at the Marvel comics of Al Ewing, part 1 New to You One of the best parts of Hickman’s Avengers run is his development of Roberto “Sunspot” DeCosta from a two dimensional, rich hot head New Mutant to a three dimensional, rich leader of the Avengers. The fact that more isn’t being done…
Starting with The Mighty Avengers, Al Ewing strung together a series of great Avengers books Al Ewing should write the New Warriors. Ewing excels at touching multiple corners of the Marvel U in a single series, something that hasn’t been done well for an extended period of time since the original run of the New…
A wonderfully sad happy record from Sarah and the Sundays There used to be a genre of music called “progressive.” It was a precursor to alternative and is often referred to as “college rock.” Progressive was understated in a way that alternative was over the top. Progressive songs were spacious and minimal. It was rare…
I ostensibly moved to Atlanta because the drummer in my last band had moved there a year early. He, however, had a job at CNN lined up, whereas I had nothing at all. Not long after I moved, one of the bands from my hometown came to Atlanta to play a show. I went to…
My punk rock journey began in part 1. On the Record I mostly ordered records from Subpop and Dischord, since I knew I liked the Afghan Whigs and I knew I liked Jawbox (although I’d first heard both bands on major labels). Seven inch records cost between two and three dollars, which wasn’t much of…
Ted Lasso was great despite a foundational story problem that was ultimately its undoing.
I love the Legion of Superheroes. I could — and probably will — write endless posts about how much the Legion has meant to me over the years. I could write about how fascinated I was when I first read about them, how hunting down back issues was so much fun, how fan fic filled…
Let me start with three opinions: 1. Super Sons (Jon Kent and Damian Wayne) was fantastic and I miss both the series and the relationship that those two characters had. I loved that imaginary stories from decades earlier suddenly became real in the DCU. 2. The actual story that aged Jon was bad. It made…
More from the Triangle Years: Part One: Embrace Continuity A month before the Triangle Years begins, Clark Kent proposes to Lois Lane. She still doesn’t know he’s Superman. This is, of course, a total dick move on Superman’s part, but it’s something that’s rectified just a few months into the Triangle Years. The Triangle Years…