Jan/100
Realism VS Surrealism
Realism is highly overrated. In particular, I hate realism applied to fantasy. Mostly because it seems to miss the point of fantasy in the first place.
I recently started a Twitter mini-debate with a friend of mine.*  Watching a preview for the new Kick-Ass movie, I remarked how the movie straddles a clumsy line between superheroes and realism. This has always been a tricky prospect. Some elements of fantasy are closer to reality than others, and superheroes are about as far from reality as one can get.
Oct/090
Green Lantern: First Flight (a review)
 FIRST, THE COMIC BOOK RANT. YOU CAN SKIP TO THE REVIEW A FEW PARAGRAPHS DOWN.
I don’t know if my regular readers have noticed this or not, but I tend to spend an unusual amount of time bemoaning the quality of modern comic books. A big part of this, I’ll admit, is simply coming from a different era. Everybody tends to like things they grew up with more than is reasonable. But it’s also because comics are kind of lame now.
Sep/090
The Last 7 Superheroes I Want to See as Movies
So I asked my friends and neighbors in the Twitterverse to give me a topic to blog about because I’m pretty lazy and at this point, I sometimes feel like I’m repeating myself. At least if I do it with a suggested topic, I can pretend like it’s semi-worthwhile and not an exercise in self-indulgence.
I had a couple of good suggestions. My favorite was “Grandma Takes Rainbow Kitty to the Dentist”, but that is far too complex a subject for me to just write a spur of the moment blog about.
Jul/091
Fan Service
As a long time, on again, off again comic book fan, it’s no secret that I’ve had my ups and downs with the storytelling medium I used to consider my favorite. Comic books are going through a crisis, and it’s one from which they may never escape. Like a black hole of sucking doom, this could lead to their end.
Jul/095
Opinions
Opinions are a funny thing. Â We all have them, and, no matter how much we might have in common with each other, no matter how similar 95 percent of our thoughts may be, there’s always disagreements. Â My buddy Nik and I both share a love of pulp, of Transformers, of superheroes and Heroscape. Â But we don’t always agree. Â He thought The Dark Knight was a good movie. Â And I thought it stank on ice. Â And that’s weird. Â And it shows how delicate and peculiar our opinions are.
