A week or so past Memorial Day and there’s this sense of dread. We’ve see the growing infection rates throughout the rural communities of the country that started ramping up throughout the re-openings. We’ve seen the pictures of so many … Continue reading The Politics Thread Looks For New Ways To Protest
After our wrap-up about a week ago of our 30 Day Comic Book Challenge, I wanted to do something that stepped a bit outside of my own comfort zone just a touch but also was a bit broader in that … Continue reading 30 Day Disney Challenge Day 1: Your Favorite Villain
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Considering the way fears of each generation, or even each decade, can change, it’s sometimes hard to remember what it was like living under past ones. We’ll all certainly remember the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder of our lives, but … Continue reading The Politics Thread Gets Back To Work
We just came to the end of our thirty-day challenge and it’s been an absolute blast for me. I originally did this run of questions when I first relaunched my own site back in 2011 as a way to re-introduce … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge: Epilogue
Comics into movies and TV shows continues to be big business, employing many and bringing a lot of ancillary products into play which raises all boats along the way. We’ve seen the obvious strong push from Marvel Studios and the … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 30: Make It Into A Movie
We’ve spent most of the past thirty days talking about all sorts of things comic book related and it’s been an absolute blast. I suspect a lot of us have discovered at least a few things to try or a … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 29: Recommend A Book To Try
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
While I like a wide breadth of material, styles and genres, there are things that just don’t appeal much. One area, particularly in film, is that of horror. While I grew up with plenty of scary films – which now … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 28: A Surprising Book
The final days of the 30 day challenge are here and it is probably one of the harder ones to answer in a way. With a long lifetime of reading comics, can you really have a favorite book or run? … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Run
Watching my evolution as a comic book fan has definitely been an interesting one since I first got into it during the waning days of the 1970’s as a little type that discovered my first Star Wars comic. I grew up as … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 26: Favorite Publisher
Considering the way fears of each generation, or even each decade, can change, it’s sometimes hard to remember what it was like living under past ones. We’ll all certainly remember the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder of our lives, but … Continue reading The Politics Thread Asks If You Want To Play A Game
With as many artists as there are out there, a favorite is a hard thing to pin down because so many have done so many unique and influential things that it’s a disservice to any of them in a way. … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Artist
There’s almost a cottage industry of people talking about favorites, polling them, ranking them, and all that. Which is certainly a fun and enjoyable pastime, since we’re no longer comparing a couple of films made a few decades ago and … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Comic Book Movie
Similar to my view on the whole dream versus match, I don’t have a heck of a lot here to be honest. I’ve seen so many permutations of characters going at it over the years and then team-ups later on, … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 23: Dream Team-Up
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Picking a favorite writer is licking picking which of your children is your favorite. You can do it, but you find yourself a bit uncomfortable with it as well. Having read comics since the late ’70s, I’ve seen many writers … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 22: Favorite Writer
As the challenge continues, we get to touch on some of the ancillary aspects of comic books. One of the first questions that come up is what one thinks is the most overrated comic book movie. Now, there are plenty … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 21: The Most Overrated Comic Book Movie
The weirdness of writing this a week in advance continues to sink in because as I think of what things will be like on the day of its posting, I’m mired in the events of that day itself and what … Continue reading The Politics Thread Looks Back On May 12th
The question that gets asked of most people at one time in their life, comic book fan or not, is that if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Often that leads to a bit of a psychological … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 20: Favorite Super Power
The question of which comics universe you would want to live in is always an interesting one since there really are so many choices these days. If you live in the Marvel universe, you could be an Inhuman, a mutant, … Continue reading 30 Day Comic Book Challenge Day 19: Where To Live
