Adventures with at least one eye open.
I get asked so often: Where are the positive portrayals of gay men?
There’s such a hunger to see stories of decent men living lives full of love.
Maybe it’s because the world is so shitty and getting shittier every day. But representation matters, and the stories we share with each other are important.
And American pop culture is a wasteland.
Supergirl, Wonder Woman and Lois Lane walk into a bar ….
That’s the premise for this great, loopy one-of-a-kind promo CW cooked up for the new “Wonder Woman” film.
It was a surprise when it aired during the “Supergirl” season finale earlier this week. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) has been fighting her arch-enemy Rhea (Teri Hatcher) while the president (Lynda Carter) works to repel the Daxamite invasion.
But clearly somebody at CW saw an epic chance to bring together Supergirl, the original Wonder Woman (Carter) and Lois Lane (Hatcher) for this trippy salute to DC’s first stand-alone female super-hero film. I love it.
And the early word on “Wonder Woman” is good, too. Maybe the Amazon can shatter that box office glass ceiling.
One of the most tantalizing tidbits dropping from the San Diego Comic-Con: Mr. Terrific will be joining “Arrow.”
Whoa. That’s huge.
And suddenly I was ready to forgive the show for the godawful slog of season three. That League of Assassins story ran so long and so aground, I was ready to shoot an arrow into my own beloved TV.
OK, but for comic readers – and fans of the Justice Society – there is one question: Which Mr. Terrific will be joining the CW hit? There are two.
Continue reading “Hey, ‘Arrow’! Don’t screw up Mr. Terrific!”
Next summer, “Dark Shadows” marks its 50th anniversary.
The supernatural soap (1966-1971 on ABC) didn’t have a long run as far as daytime serials go – “General Hospital” recently celebrated its 52nd year on the air – but it made a mark like no other.
With its suspenseful tales of remorseful bloodsuckers, handsome ghosts and malicious witches, “Dark Shadows” captured the imaginations of housewives, college students and kids, who would race home from school to watch the show spin out its increasingly crazy stories. Continue reading “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About ‘Dark Shadows’”
