Just about any hour of the day, Harvard Square teems with students, tourists and locals looking to take in the unique sights, sounds and shops of this Cambridge destination.
Yet about two blocks away from the crowds and the noise, you can find a park that is an oasis from the madness.
Yes, I’m calling it.
I can almost hear you now: “Sure, Mark, you’ve wasted half your life and most of your money on those four-color funnies, but how can you really single out one – one – comic book and claim it is the worst ever published?”
True, I haven’t read every single comic book ever published, and there is a lot of dreck out there (DC’s “Convergence,” the stink is mighty from your direction), but I’m confident in my pick.
“The Avengers” No. 200, issue date October 1980.
The Tardy Movie Review is an irregular feature here because the Tardy Moviegoer would sooner eat nails than go to the opening week of a film. If I want the back of my seat to be kicked or listen to idiots chatter for two hours in the dark, I’ll take the Red Eye to New York.
Insane.
George Miller’s reboot of his “Mad Max” franchise hits the gas with the opening credits and almost never lets you catch your breath.
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Did you see it?
It was a blip in the news.
After Ireland’s historic vote to legalize same-sex marriage, the Vatican weighed in.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, a top Vatican official, said the vote was a “defeat for humanity.”
Gosh, that seems a wee extreme.
The Tardy Movie Review is an irregular feature here as The Tardy Moviegoer finds going to theaters second only to flying to be the worst way to spend time with a mob of strangers. He never goes to opening weekends, nor even second weekends, because the glare of a sea of cellphones in a darkened theater is too damn bright. Idiots ruin movies.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
What incredible battle sequences.
What horrible story when the Avengers stopped fighting and started talking.
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