Recent content by twosage

This cannot be repeated often enough. Bob can rest easy because Jurassic Park has a rare "get out of science free card" narrative that allows them to do pretty much whatever they want (within the context of dinosaur anatomy and behavior anyway). Just like continuity errors in the Matrix can...

I meant it was more of a shame on a human level. It depresses me to see anyone reduced to buffoonery by insidious memes they can neither understand nor control.

Kirk Cameron (or maybe his mother, accounts differ) got Julie McCullough fired from Growing Pains for doing a Playboy photoshoot. Once he was married, Cameron refused to take off his wedding ring when he was playing Mike Seaver (in the later episodes, you can see it was covered with a...

I guess The Death of Superman was so mainstream, Bob needed to throw an otaku hipster curveball to even himself out.

Pryde of the X-Men and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends are touchstones for my original love of these characters and comics in general. Spidey and Nightcrawler will always be among my favorite heroes and I will always have a soft spot for Firestar and Dazzler, regardless of how dated and...

Lackluster is a good word for it. Most of the plot was confused and convenient (as well as relying pretty heavily on goofy Silver Age stuff like the super androids or whatever they're called). That said: The scene where Lois introduces herself to the Kents, and neither of them know how to...

Very much so. While I'm overall a defender of the Saga, I don't pretend that it was handled at all well. The individual writers did what they could (some hit and some missed), but with different levels of editors with different ideas and orders that changed month to month, it was destined to...

The 1990's wasn't as universally blowful as it seems in retrospect. One of my favorite Spider-Man stories is the Clone Saga (or at least the later parts of it). Unlike the other replacement heroes on the video, Ben Reilly didn't reflect "the Spider-Man people wanted", but rather, "the...

Hello friend. Like you, I too once hated Superman because of the lazy writing and cheap shit powers rendered all conflict meaningless, but then I discovered "It's Just Some Random Guy". He did a series of videos called "After Hours" that actually turned me overnight into a dedicated Superman...

I have two memories of the Death of Superman. The first happened a few years after the comics themselves came out, and a friend of mine who as trying to convince me to give Superman a chance offered the trade paperback for me to read at school. I read the first few pages, asked him "do they...

Most mainstream science fiction (and at this point that's as far as the conversation goes in our culture) seems fairly reluctant to address the question. I'd characterize it as "everything played by a human actor is up for grabs, but everything else is perversion". Just to hammer that point...

My only problem with Howard the Duck in modern movies (including his GotG appearance) is the lack of cigars. No way in hell is Disney going to have the funny-animal-quotable-toy-merchendising-magnet character smoke on screen. At the same time, Howard without a cigar is like doing a movie about...

The new Nickelodeon show really is pretty good. I was amazed at how well they developed and balanced the brothers' personalities, while keeping them from being irritating slogan-machines. I've only seen the first season, but damn, they finally got "Teenage" right. As for all the rest of it...

Okay, after three or four brainstorming passes, I really love that "Dressed to Kill" game. Seriously, if we don't do that, I'm going to try do that.

"Dressed to Kill" An action platformer where you play a pair of boxers shorts and each level you must collect your clothes and equipment. You must collect each article of clothing and secret spy gear (adding each one to your ensemble) until you are a full super-spy tuxedo ready to shoot...