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04.06.07 by Widge @ 5:43 pm So Go give it a read. I'm not going to say that I don't agree with a lot of what the author, Ryan, has to say. But here's what I found interesting. I was going to take him to task over what Cory at Boing Boing quoted: But we don't believe having free, usable, uncrippled media is a feature -- it's a right. Categorized as: Music and Rants
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04.05.07 by Widge @ 2:57 am  Well, I'm not here to give you a rundown on the latest Previews. Chris over at the Invincible Super-Blog does that much better than I could hope to. I'm here because I still get Previews even though I can't remember the last time I found something while flipping through it that I decided I positively had to special order. And while flipping through, I noticed something. On pages 64-66 of the April Previews, you had one, two, three covers with blood on them. Batman #667 has a nice helping of blood and Robin #163 does as well. In fact, the Robin cover makes it look like Robin is in pain. Since we already know that DC Comics writers are not only passing off bad fanfic as writing but also are closet sadomasochists (since they never seem to lose an opportunity to inflict pain or rape or both upon their heroes--their heroes, mind you), I started to wonder: if I looked at all the DC covers, what would I find? Categorized as: Columns and Comics and Rants
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03.19.07 by Tuffley @ 3:32 am  In a blaze of publicity, Marvel Comics announced the death of Steve Rogers (aka: Captain America). The parting shot made headlines across the globe, and came at just the right time for the cable news pundits--because you can always stop talking about a dead supermodel's baby daddy just long enough to talk about a dead fictional character. Yes, I'm being a bit cynical about this. After all, with everything else that's going on in the world--analyzing the political impact of Captain America's "death" seems like a terribly inappropriate thing for a responsible media outlet to do. But then again, who am I to say--considering the last time a Four Color Fury column showed up, Anderson Cooper was still the host of The Mole. But everything changes, I'm told. And besides, it's not as if Marvel hasn't done this before... Categorized as: Rants
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11.06.06 by Widge @ 9:04 am  Latest podcast is up over at Kevin Smith's Quick Stop Entertainment. Subjects covered include but are not limited to: MySpace, YouTube, Comedy Central, the MPAA, the RIAA, the IRS, Christopher Nolan, Borat, and laundry detergent. No, seriously. Categorized as: Rants
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10.26.06 by Widge @ 10:49 pm  On November 1st, the most WTF-worthy crossover since Archie met The Punisher will take place. A character on Guiding Light is going to be granted superpowers and wind up attracting the attention of many Marvel characters in an eight-page backup story in many Marvel titles. If you don't believe me, go watch the dreadful trailer. Kudos to Marvel for trying to bring together soap opera fans and comic book fans. I'm sure they think they're going to spawn some kind of bizarre "You got your peanut butter in my chocolate/You got your chocolate in my peanut butter moment" or something, but somehow the two demographics have never seemed like the type who would want to hang out at the other's conventions. I mean, hell, Marvel--you can't keep comic book fans going to comic book stores on a regular basis (and not just due to your inability to meet your own schedule). You really think you're going to get a bunch of housewives to descend upon the direct market? At least the quality of writing on Guiding Light will certainly be better than anything I've seen in Civil War. So that's something. Categorized as: Comics and Rants
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