America had a choice between a leader who promised to a president for all people and a traitor who campaigned on fear and hatred.
And America chose the traitor.
Vice President Kamala Harris offered a vision to take this country forward, off the robust economy she and President Joe Biden built.
Mango Mussolini repeatedly referred to America as a “garbage can” at his rallies.
Continue reading “Make It Make Sense”
There seems to be some confusion surrounding the final issue of DC’s “Justice Society of America.”
Readers online have groused that the issue no. 12, cover dated December 2024, has no villain, no plot, no story.
With artist Todd Nauck delivering a blast of glorious double-spread pages featuring hundreds of characters, the issue is a sort of heroic spin on “This is Your Life.” Courtney Whitmore, better known as Stargirl, looks back on her life and her adventures with the first and greatest team of super-heroes.
The climax of the tale finds Courtney delivering her high school valedictorian speech and looking forward to her future.
Hardly the time-trippy cosmic battle royale fans are used to.
But if that’s all you’re seeing, you’re missing the point.
Continue reading “Thank You, Geoff Johns”
In my continuing battle to celebrate the most ridiculous comic books ever published, I present to you my greatest find:
“The Story of the Year!” the cover proclaims.
Hell, let’s make it the century and call it a day.
“Batman Becomes Bat-Baby!”
It’s a premise so absurd, you just know you need to know more:
Continue reading “Beware the night! Beware … the Bat-Baby!”
Characters on long-running prime-time dramas rarely grow emotionally.
From the first episode to the last, they stand as the same.
Olivia Benson is still the depressed detective apprehending perps on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Dr. Meredith Grey remains the same passionate life-saver that she was in the first season of “Grey’s Anatomy” as she is now in the 43rd season.
It’s part of the appeal of genre TV, what marks them as comfort food.
But the 100th episode of the first-responder show “9-1-1” earlier this month stunned viewers as it pulled on a string lingering for approximately five seasons, give or take, as firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark) was kissed by a man.
Continue reading “ABC’s ‘9-1-1’ Shocks Fans with the Best Possible Twist”
For the last several months, as background for a novel I am working on, I have been researching the French Revolution.
The question that fascinates to this day, historians and lay people alike, is just how it happened: How did the state justify sending so many thousands of people to their deaths?
King Louis and Marie Antoinette were seen as living symbols of despotic rule, and so they were beheaded. Some nobles and clergy also met their ends at the guillotine.
But hundreds and hundreds of average people, from soldiers to journalists to actors to farmers, also were swept up in the Terror and destroyed.
Continue reading “Trump Crosses (Another) Line”
Mark Perigard 