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A few notes on women in fiction

tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that... (More...)

Watchmen movie notes

They've started shooting the Watchmen movie! For a March, 2009 release! A blog entry on the official site shows some... (More...)

Y: First issue free online

A year and a half ago, I reviewed the comic Y: The Last Man for SH. The series is about... (More...)

Travel, comics, TV, spam, Halloween, birthdays

Sorry so out of touch lately. I have dozens of things I want to post about, as always, but somehow... (More...)

Small superpowers

As I've probably mentioned before, one of my favorite superpowers is that of Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute... (More...)

Things to do on dates

A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)

What you should know ahead of time about Superman Returns

The following is a spoiler, of a sort; kind of a meta-spoiler. But I nonetheless claim that almost everyone will enjoy Superman Returns more if they know this than if they don't know it; knowing this will help you set your expectations appropriately (and most of you probably know it already anyway). However, I know some people won't want to know it, in which case don't read the rest of this entry.

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Super Rescue

It occurs to me that most superheroes are, in a sense, super-cops. The main thing they do is fight crime.... (More...)

Weekend update

Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)

Father's Day plus assorted miscellany

Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow... (More...)

Review: Fantastic Four

Kam and I finally saw Fantastic Four. It was, pretty much as expected, fun fluff. Better than Daredevil (which I... (More...)

Naked swearing cartoon lesbians, $24/year

No, I haven't entered the porn business. This is a post about the economics of publishing. Really. Well, okay, and... (More...)

Long week

Assorted bits and pieces from the past week or so (some good, some not): (More...)

Productive

Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)

Superman Returns

Last month, Nick pointed to the teaser trailer for what he called Jesus Christ, Superman, for reasons that will become... (More...)

Items: Comics, videos, photos

Assorted comics and comics-related items, plus a few cat and lizard photos, and some other stuff. Nifty comic strip in... (More...)