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Oh Hey, Here’s That 3,000 Word Column About Batman: Year Two That Nobody Wanted
I do tend to babble on, but this week it just gets ridiculous, when I explain why Batman: Year Two is monumentally awful, and why I love it anyway. Also, it only comes up briefly, but man oh man is Son of the Demon good. As for what [read more]
The Week In Links
Yeah, I’m reusing the title from last week. In fact, I am seriously considering turning my laziness into a regular feature. Moreso than it usually is, I mean. Anyway, here’s this week’s articles: First up, I’ve written a review of Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated Season One, where I delve [read more]
The Week In Links
Get it? Because I used to have a regular feature called… oh forget it. Here’s what I wrote this week: In this week’s Ask Chris, I’m once again invited to write way more than anyone cares about reading regarding one of my obsessions. And now that I write [read more]
Your Monday Morn — er, Afternoon Dose of Links
I didn’t want to push my frustrations over Twilight‘s weird reproductive systems too far down the page last week (because really, vampires? Completely logical. Vampire reproduction? COME ON NOW!), but in case you missed it, here’s a few things you can catch up on: This week on War [read more]
FunkyWatch: December 2011
It’s that time again: Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve got a rundown of Tom Batiuk’s most depressing offerings for the past month, featuring Alzheimer’s, terrorism, and good ol’ fashioned existential dread! Enjoy! Although if you actually do enjoy this, keep in mind that there is probably something wrong with [read more]
Why Not Start 2012 By Wasting Quite a Bit of Your Time Reading Things I Wrote?
I am finally back at work after a refreshing long weekend of playing Skyrim for like 9 hours straight working diligently on other projects, and I have returned to usher in 2012 with my usual amount of self-promotion. For starters, here’s how I ended last year! In a [read more]
What Time Is It? Adventure Time Interview With Ryan North Time!
Did you know I like Adventure Time a lot? It’s true! That’s why I was stoked to interview Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North about his new job writing the Adventure Time comic! It’s a good one, too: If you measure by capital letters, North’s enthusiasm for the project [read more]
Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism
While some people opted for turkey and togetherness, I spent this Thanksgiving writing up a column on the Scooby-Doo franchise as a bastion of secular humanism and why the presence of the supernatural cannot possibly work in the universe of the show. I know, it’s crazy: Me? Getting [read more]
The Green Lantern Animated Series Pilot is Pretty Rad
The new Green Lantern: The Animated Series premieres tomorrow on Cartoon Network, but thanks to the friendly folks at WB Animation, I got a review copy. I watched it this week, and even as a guy who doesn’t really care one way or the other about Green Lanterns [read more]
Ask Chris #72: Casualties of the Suicide Squad
Apparently I was so ready to be done with the week that I completely forgot to link to anything I wrote on Friday. Fortunately, my column from last Friday is still up and ready to be read, so if you’re ready for a look back at one of [read more]
The Best and Worst Justice League Lineups Ever
Well well well, look who decided that self-promotion was less important than playing Fallout 3 yesterday. That’s a first! Point being, in order to prepare for this week’s release of Justice League #1, I put together a rundown of Justice League lineups over the past 50 years! Thrill [read more]
The New DC Logo Roundtable
Today at ComicsAlliance, Andy Khouri, Chris Haley, Curt Franlkin and I are sitting down for a roundtable discussion of DC’s new logos, focusing on both the ones that we really like and the ones that look like they were probably knocked out at 4:55 on a Friday afternoon. [read more]
An Hour In the Car With Jonathan Hickman
Believe it or not, one of the coolest things about Comic-Con this year was my ride home from the airport. Jonathan Hickman volunteered to give me a lift home, and when you’re a comics journalist sitting in a little room with the writer of Fantastic Four for an [read more]
While I Was Out
I was in San Diego last weekend for Comic-Con International, and in addition to eating In-N-Out Burger, after which every other hamburger I eat will seem like a lie I’m telling to my mouth, I actually did some work, too. Most of what I did hasn’t gone up yet, but [read more]
Alphas: A Show On Television
Oh hey! Looks like I forgot to do my mandatory self-promotion. Sorry, everybody. I know you were waiting for it. Anyway, today at ComicsAlliance, I reviewed the SyFy Channel’s Alphas, a new show about super-heroes created by a guy who apparently wants to make it abundantly clear that [read more]
Jim Shooter’s Dazzler Movie Pitch, Starring Four Rodneys Dangerfield, KISS and the Village People
Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve got a rundown of one of comics’ strangest stories: a pitch for a Dazzler TV special/movie written in four days by Jim Shooter where KISS fights the Village People because of Rodney Dangerfield. It is somehow even crazier than it sounds. [read more]
FunkyWatch: June’s Most Depressing Funky Winkerbean Strips
It’s that time again: Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve got my monthly roundup of June’s most depressing Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft strips! I have to admit, though, this month’s installments weren’t that bad. I mean, they’re another litany of tragedy for the characters, but since I’ve come to enjoy [read more]
The Goon’s Greatest Hits (and Stabbings, and Gunshots…)
This week, Eric Powell’s The Goon returns from a hiatus of almost two years, and I’m pretty excited. So excited, in fact, that today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve run down 13 of my favorite moments from the series thus far! There’s zombie chimps, unholy bastards and of course, crushing [read more]
Ask Chris #61: Southern Fried Super-Heroes
This week in Ask Chris, fancy Yankee city slicker Aaron (of Awesomed By Comics fame) asks me to list off my five favorite super-heroes from the South! And that has virtually guaranteed that I’m going to be having barbecue and hush puppies (or as my local gas station [read more]
The 5 Greatest Knockoffs In Comics
Oh man, you guys. I think I’ve stumbled onto something big here. Something huge. Did you know that on the Internet, you can write comedy articles based around lists?! I know! It’s craaaaaaazy! As proof of concept, I’ve put together the Top 5 Knockoffs In Comics, going through [read more]