It's weird that it's taken so long to get here. A hundred-plus comic reviews. Dozens upon dozens of articles on the genre. Lists of all sorts. And I've never just sat down and written up a list of my ten favorite comic book characters? That's not entirely true. On the Ghosts of the Stratosphere podcast,... Continue Reading →
Well. This has been a disappointing summer. Stupid pandemics! Anyway, earlier this summer, back in June, we covered the best Summer Blockbusters ever released. But summer isn't all about movies! After all, you can't watch a new movie while you are poolside. You can't enjoy the new smash film while you are parasailing. There's no... Continue Reading →
I was improperly raised on horror movies as a child, as I have detailed before. In addition to the semi-regular Jason-based nightmares that are just ingrained in my DNA at this point, it has given me a lifelong love of the genre. Horror cinema just combines some of the best parts of every other field of... Continue Reading →
Here's the thing about me... I am not much of a gamer. I LIKE video games; I PLAY video games damn frequently. But it's more that I'm not good at games, and because of that, I tire of individual titles easily. I also have a bad penchant for buying games and either NEVER playing them... Continue Reading →
(The Playlist of my Top Ten! Play it in the background while you read for maximum effect!) It's mid-December, so it's List Challenge time! What's more, it's still the end of the 2010's, so we have another Best of the 2010's list. As you might remember, in November, we presented you with our Best Non-Comic Book Movies... Continue Reading →
Sure, maybe this isn't thematic for November, BUT it dawned on me that we are nearing not just the end of the year, but the end of the DECADE! The 2010's are rapidly leaving us, and who knows what the 2020's have in mind? Depending on whether you say "Twenty-twenties" or "Two-thousand-twenties", they may bring... Continue Reading →
WrestleMania is rad. Whether you like professional wrestling or not, there's still a national mystique around WrestleMania. It's wrestling's Superbowl, it's Academy Awards. The biggest night of the wrestling calendar. And while the general wrestling viewing audience is comparatively small nowadays, there is still a curiosity about 'Mania every year. Because so many of us... Continue Reading →
Am I alone in just not liking Jean Grey? I mean, apparently not, but in my recent Top Heroines of Marvel article, Jean Grey was the most divisive character in the comments. Some said my leaving her out was "tragic" or "outrageous"; others noted she is "meh" or "sucks". She didn't make my Top Ten,... Continue Reading →
I've got two of these lists coming by the time Women's History Month ends. I bet you can guess what the second might be. (I bet you can also guess, if you've ever paid attention to anything I've ever written, who #1 will be here. I'm nothing if not consistent!) I've long been a big... Continue Reading →
Today's topic: The Best Comic Book Movies of the 2010's! The 2010's were a perfect storm of GREAT comic book movies and relatively average everything else movies. There was stuff I liked, obviously, or I wouldn't have made my own aforementioned list, but there was little that really got my blood pumping. Not in the... Continue Reading →
I turned 40 recently. I know it's "just a number" and "you are as old as you feel" and all (which... isn't useful ever since I fell down the stairs in December and hurt my back; I feel 65), but it's still a whole thing, right? Turning FORTY, man. Thirty is no big deal; you're... Continue Reading →
I take no pride in being something of a harsh grader when it comes to comic books. I am not really sure why it is--I tend to grade out movies much more generously than I do comics for whatever reason--but if you look at my grading history, it is easy to see I am typically... Continue Reading →
Nobody liked 2020. I mean, it's even kind of boring as a meme at this point, but yeah, we all know it... 2020 was kind of a dogshit year. That's brutal, but honest. My 2020 more-or-less started with appendicitis (and that, having happened in January, genuinely feels like an eternity ago), and really... everything just... Continue Reading →
This started off as a slightly different list. Originally, this was going to be my Top Five fight scenes of all-time in comic book history. It's another one of those Top Ten list ideas for our podcast that we have not gotten around to yet, and one that I thought had some legs and was... Continue Reading →
What am I even doing right now? I forgot already. Let's look up at the title of this article again... oh, right! Gimmick matches! Got it. Let's start the show! 5. Falls Count Anywhere Starting off really basic before we get to the more convoluted match types that I love, FCA is a bout that... Continue Reading →
