Good Riddance, Comics Code

January 28, 2011 at 1:46 am
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Comics Code AuthorityI am the first to admit that parenting is a ridiculously tough job. It’s a task that is both Sisyphean and Herculean. It’s a Gordian  knot and even when it goes well, it’s often a Pyrrhic victory. What I’m saying is, it’s hard on a Greek level. It’s the most important job I have, and I never feel completely satisfied with my performance. But as difficult as parenting is, I resent it when other people try to do it for me.

So I get angry when parent groups try to influence what can be shown on TV, or when a particular religious group protests a movie that they find offensive. Or when a stuffy psychiatrist from the fifties tells me what can and can’t be put in a comic book. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Webcomic Spotlight: The Wormworld Saga

January 21, 2011 at 10:42 am
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This Webcomic Spotlight is unique in that technically, this is a comic that has so far only released a single page. But that one page is so amazingly good that I had to bring it to your attention. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Our First Look at the New Spider-Man

January 13, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve always been a big fan of Spider-Man. I loved the first two of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, even if they weren’t perfect. The third installment was a huge disappointment after the success of the first two, though I tend to believe that this was due to studio interference.

I’m fairly ambivalent about the upcoming “reboot”. On one hand, if it’s good, I certainly wouldn’t mind some more web-slinging action on the big screen. On the other hand, I kind of feel like the franchise has run its course, and it seems ridiculous to reboot a series that only just ended. But it’s coming whether I like it or not, and the first image of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man has been released today. Check it out: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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One Bad Apple

January 7, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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Looks like I have a need for a blog post after all. Someone has started posting obscene comments, which forces us to change our comment approval policies.

You will now be required to provide an email address when you comment, and the first comment from a specific email will have to be approved. After you’ve been approved once, you can comment all you like (so long as you don’t do anything that causes us to ban you, of course).

We’re sorry we have to take these measures, but we obviously can’t have a bunch of X-rated comments on what is generally intended to be a PG-13 site.

Shawn

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Ooh, Monkeys!

January 7, 2011 at 12:52 pm
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I try to do a blog post every week, but this week I’ve been distracted by some personal stuff. That’ll pass, but in the meantime, please enjoy these dancing monkeys:

(Yes, I know chimps are not monkeys.)

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