Perhaps the best article I’ve read on the issue of Northstar’s impending nuptials belongs to Andrew Wheeler over at Comics Alliance. Though he is himself a gay man who hopes to get married some day, he makes a number of solid points against the upcoming marriage – most notably, that comic book writers treat weddings [...]
Batman Incorporated is back and in full swing within the new 52 universe. And it now comes with 100% more Batcow! While my fellow ranter Cal has touched upon this issue in his “This Week in Comics” I still felt the need to touch up on it far more than he did, and perhaps even [...]
This week in comics, Marvel breaks ground in Astonishing X-Men #50, Justice League Dark gets a new writer and a new sense of purpose, and DC continues to beat up on owls, like, everywhere. All-Star Western #9 (A “Night of the Owls” Book) This was either the laziest possible tie-in to Scott Snyder’s “Night of [...]
I heard this as a rumor, and through searching I found this Bleeding Cool bit and a few others that seem to point that it isn’t just a rumor. Didio apparently has claimed that an iconic and major character in the DC Universe is going to be coming out as being gay. To begin, well [...]
Winter of 2011 saw the release of two comedy-dramas starring members of the cast of the Ocean’s Eleven films that dealt with a family coming to grips with the loss of a wife and mother. Both films were written and directed by A-list talents after a relatively long sabbatical. We Bought a Zoo and The [...]
*Warning: Mild spoilers for Mad Men* Earlier this season, an elevator opened in the lobby outside the Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce offices on the umpteenth floor of their building on AMC’s Mad Men. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) looked straight down an empty elevator shaft, seeing that there was no elevator, but that there was a [...]
You can go to Disney World without a lot of planning. But I wouldn’t recommend it. Those who do frequently find themselves waiting in longer lines, unsure of what to do next. They are excluded from the most popular sit-down restaurants and miss out on a lot of experiences without even realizing it. On the [...]