Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Captain America: the original is still the best

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We watched  Captain America: The First Avenger  the other night. It was my fourth viewing. Yesterday, I brought home  Winter Soldier , whic...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Rebels: A Well Regulated Militia

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Rebels: A Well Regulated Militia  by Brian Wood is a graphic novel that explores the lives of otherwise ordinary folk caught up in the extr...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Superheroes Live in Cities

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The easy narrative is that good guys protect cities because bad guys want to rule millions of people and that is hard to do by extending yo...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Captain America

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Directed by Joe Johnston I watched  Captain America: The First Avenger  expecting no more (and hopefully no less) than the other superh...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Blaming Ayn Rand for the 2010 Financial Crisis

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The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis  by Darryl Cunningham (Abrams, 2015) is a closely written and tightly ...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN

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Canon exists. Once you stray from canon, you go from a slippery slope to a  reductio ad absurdum in which all you have is an em...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Green Lantern Outshines Green Hornet

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The Green Lantern (2011, Martin Campbell) not only kept to the story line, it took itself seriously.  The Green Hornet (2011, Michel Gond...