So when I wrote my Justice League review last week, I mentioned that there was no real story to the movie. I said that it was more or less just an instantiation of what I decided to call “Comic Book Movie Plot #3.” I also mentioned that there were roughly five standard comic book movie…
Make no mistake, we live in the future. A lot of times I like living in the future. I have a giant flat TV with 3D projection software hanging on my wall that can pull up a million different movies at my instant command and I can control it with my watch. I own several computers…
Ok, so I just spent waaaaaay too much time designing an infographic for a SINGLE slide of the presentation I am doing this weekend. Like, literally, I just meant to throw something together and then I went overboard. So now that I have, I’m wondering does it even make sense. I’m sure it will with…
I always forget to pimp my academic appearances. I’m trying to be better about that. So I hereby announce that I will be speaking at Mr. Aloysius College’s Charity Con, this Saturday. I’ll be talking about the nature of continuity in comics and superhero narratives and how as comic fans we care way less than…
So I’ve been doing dissertation research (because apparently that’s just the rest of my life) and I’m currently reading all the way through a book that I’d only read sections of before. Peter Coogan’s Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre. One of the things I’ve been struggling with in writing my dissertation was the…
If you pay attention to me at all, you might have picked up that I have kind of a preoccupation with sex and gender in comic books and superhero movies. Did you miss that? It’s kind of subtle maybe? Oh it’s not? I talk about it all the fucking time? Huh…. Anyway, here’s something weird…
So, in the name of continuing to pimp my academic career (since some people have said that they’re interested in knowing what I do… and also just because it’s probably a good idea that I try to do that more than I have been) – as well as proving to all you motherfuckers that I…
So in the name of continuing to pimp my academic career… I’ll be speaking TWICE at the 3 Rivers Screenwriters Conference at Point Park University (in Pittsburgh) this weekend. Despite the name, the conference is NOT just for screenwriting. Though there’s plenty of that going on. It’s an academic and professional conference devoted to “the…
“Jeepers! A Dame — And she’s been croaked!” – Seriously… there’s totally a reason I used this picture here.A while back someone, I don’t remember who, asked me how I could possibly be an academic, let alone an English teacher, given the way I write — the topics, the humor (or…
I’m a red-blooded heterosexual American male. As such, it turns out that I enjoy seeing sexy women in their underwear. I am not ashamed to admit this. Women in their underwear kick ass. I am decidedly pro-lingerie! Yeah, I know… not exactly a controversial statement to make. But really my point is, for all of…
Because my job is better than your job, I spent all day reading about sex and looking at porn. Awesome huh? Ok, So I’m currently reading Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacida Jetha. It’s an anthropological history on sexuality, monogamy and non-monogamy… because my job is awesome. Anyway, they’re talking about human male predisposition to enticement…
I was talking to my friend Kaitlin the other day and she mentioned a friend asking her to see 50 Shades Darker, the new 50 Shades of Gray movie. Now, I know that a lot of people I know are very split on the 50 Shades books/films. First off, since I know a lot of people…
(This is going to be a long one… I’ve put off writing about this for a while.) So about two and a half months ago, America seemingly got really bored and decided to end itself… you know… cuz why not? At least that’s one view. Another view is that a small sect of megalomaniacal billionaires, the…
(This is my review of Rogue One. I promise, there are no spoilers.) So there’s this new movie out, have you heard? It’s a movie. With this war…like… in the stars… kind of a Star War, if you will. Oh, you have heard? Well, good. But in case you haven’t there’s totally a Star War happening.…
Now that my class on comics is over, I can get back to focusing on some of my own work. It’s another one of those times where I am doing some research for a comics paper and so it’s totally useful for me to just outsource some of my research to the internet. In this…