Boy, it’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, huh? The strange whims of network television has made it so that we haven’t had a new episode of the Simpsons in quite a while. But, things are going to be pretty consistent from now on, marching […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back for yet another installment of Bat signal, my never-ending mission to read every single issue of Detective Comics that’s ever been published, in random order, and without any context. We’re taking a trip back to one of Batman’s weirdest time periods this week, the […]
Last year I decided to primarily focus on reading new novels, trying to keep up with the popular novels that were defining modern literature. And, I read a lot of really interesting stuff. But, I also found myself occasionally feeling a little like I was stuck doing […]
This is not an original thought, but there really is something fascinating about the fact that the stars of two of the biggest fantasy franchises of the modern era, Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, have taken their cultural cache, and the money they earned from the roles, […]
The DC Extended Universe is one of the absolute strangest franchises in recent memory. From the very beginning it was a pretty blatant attempt to copy the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while seeing everything that made that series such a massive hit, and doing the […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to yet another installment of Bat Signal, my never-ending quest to read ever issue of Detective Comics that has ever been published, in random order, and with basically no context. And folks, we have a very strange issue to talk about today. On the […]
One of my favorite strange aspects of Marvel Comics is the fact that a shocking amount of their principal characters are heads of state. There are a plethora of weird, fake countries in the Marvel Universe, and there has to be people to run those countries, […]
Over the last few years there’s been a real resurgence in a very specific type of horror movie. More arty movies, full of impeccable set-design and cinematography, which largely attempt to generate horror more from mood and tension than out-right scares. These films have been largely associated […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back for a new installment of Bat Signal, my never-ending mission to read every issue of Detective Comics ever written, in random order, and with basically no context. And, as you can tell from the cover above, it’s time to talk about the continuing misadventures […]
It sure can be fascinating to look at the ebbs and flows of a director’s career. Everyone’s going to have highs and lows, periods of creative growth and relatively creatively fallow periods. And when there’s a director whose work you’ve generally liked in the past, and they find […]
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