John42
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Mark Waid wrote this! No Age of Ultron knowledge necessary. This is a one-off Hank Pym biography that’s simultaneously a…
Read full review and commentsLast couple issues I rolled my eyes at a tired would-you-kill-Hitler debate. Now I get it: This is a comic…
Read full review and commentsJason Aaron is boiling over with empathy. He’s professed his love for grey-area characters, and that love is genuine. No…
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Pick of the Week #665 – Young Justice #1
January 13, 2019 2:59 pm Wow yes great song but 18 years ago did I realize how much of a Dylan pastiche it is? Show opened and I thought it was a subterranean homesick blues cover. Everybody must get high!
Also great show, great point about GL being more of a military than a cop book recently.
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Pick of the Week #568 – Motor Girl #3
January 23, 2017 5:30 pm Haupted!
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Pick of the Week #568 – Motor Girl #3
January 23, 2017 5:30 pm Josh you might have killed James! Or at least made him no longer a living being. One of the requirements to fit the biological definition of life is metabolism, which includes taking in organic matter to break it down into energy. If he's a closed system that isn't taking anything in, he's not considered alive.
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Special Edition – Suicide Squad
August 14, 2016 6:36 pm Bandwagons are large for a reason.
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Pick of the Week #511 – Airboy #4
November 16, 2015 3:48 pm The prequels are expensively produced fan-fiction. As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to know what the clone wars were. I still do.
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Pick of the Week #467 – The Fade Out #4
January 15, 2015 1:20 pm I've always wondered about Michael Lark's thought process when it came to designing Forever in Lazarus.
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Pick of the Week #467 – The Fade Out #4
January 12, 2015 4:50 pm The homogenous coloring has a lot to do with that for me, leaves me with feeling waterlogged.
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Pick of the Week #467 – The Fade Out #4
January 12, 2015 4:35 pm Great show, love the movie talk!
Both Johns Ford and Huston did amazing war docs, filmed as-it-happned. Camera shakes from explosions. YouTube has Ford's Battle of Midway (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8l5DOurqR-4) and Huston's Battle of San Pietro (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1pAPOifAaQY). They're not a big time commitment: 18 and 32 min respectively.
And anyone interested in how the old studio system should listen to Jimmy Stewart's DVD commentary for Winchester '73 (directed by Anthony Mann, one of movies' best visual storytellers, I'd say best western and film noir director).
Also fascinating because Stewart talks about his PTSD from WWII, which helps explain his transition from pre-war "aw shucks" to post-war frenzied and scary.
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Special Edition – X-Men: Days of Future Past
May 28, 2014 2:42 pm Just watched O Lucky Man (pretty sure Grant Morrison said it was is fav movie, but I can't find the source), I think Evan Peters is our Malcolm McDowell. He's got that perfect mix of innocence and rebellion.
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Pick of the Week #428 – American Vampire: Second Cycle #29
March 24, 2014 8:35 am The "of course" non marvel/dc superhero book: the authority
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