So over the weekend, I got to go see Spider Man: Far From Home. Like Endgame, it’s another Marvel movie that’s really hard to review without spoiling anything, so here’s my thoughts before we get into this post, which is going to be about the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you want a more detailed …
Continue reading Far From Home – The MCU Still has a Villain Problem
Neon Genesis Evangelion sounds like it was named by someone playing the most pretentious game of mad libs ever. The Japanese name of the show, Shinseiki Evangerion, literally translates to “The Gospel of the New Century”, which is somehow even worse. If you don’t know anything about it, the name conjures images of some kind …
Continue reading Neon Genesis Evangelion is on Netflix, and you Should be Watching It
Sup nerds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRuuF-5ZST8 You know what’s great? Buying nerd stuff. Comic books, dice, RPG rule books, dice, miniatures, dice...there’s something pure in the experience of having a new piece of nerdiness in your hands. And as much as I love the convenience of ordering off Amazon, there are some things you can’t quite recreate in …
Continue reading Why Comic Book Stores Will Always Beat Amazon
So my last post ended up turning into a nineties nostalgia trip. Most people know the nineties stuff that holds up well in modern times or was super popular at the time. Animaniacs, Power Rangers, Pokémon, Rugrats, you know the words, feel free to sing along. But the nineties, like the 80’s, were full of …
Continue reading Three Classic 90’s Shows You Probably Forgot About (If You Ever Knew Them)
I didn’t make it out to see Dark Phoenix this weekend. My close friend and I absolutely intended to go see it. We even texted about it over the week. Then it was time and we found as the weekend went on we were more interested in hanging out, playing tabletop roleplaying games, and working …
Continue reading The X-Men Movies In Review – Never has Quality been this Variable
In 2012, The Avengers came out and completely reshaped the pop culture landscape in a way that hadn’t happened since 1999, when The Matrix did the same thing. Almost overnight, it felt like every other company was looking at creating their own version of the same thing, wanting to make the Marvel Cinematic Universe magic …
I’m going to be honest with you all up front: I don’t know if I can review this movie. Not because it upset me like Shazam! did. This movie did something completely different. Godzilla: King of the Monsters completely bypassed the logic centers of my brain. Every time I started to think about underlying themes …
Fantasy, as a genre, has a ton of subgenres. There’s no way a single post could cover them all, unless I wanted to write a thesis. I’m not getting into hard or soft magic again, or urban fantasy compared to epic fantasy compared to steampunk, or the thousand other flavors that fantasy comes in. Instead, …
Continue reading Heroic, Realistic, and Grimdark – the Shades of Fantasy
With the end of Game of Thrones, fantasy has been on my mind a lot lately. Fantasy, as a genre, is an interesting beast. It revolves around the fantastic and the impossible, without the constraints of pretending at science like even the least grounded sci-fi, which means in theory that it should have limitless possibility …
Continue reading Hard Vs Soft Magic – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Which to Use
A little while ago I did a blog post about three youtube channels that are good for writing research. This is not a continuation of that blog post. As important as dedicating time, effort, and energy are to writing if you want to make a real go of it, it’s also important to have fun. …
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