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Back in 2012, there was an absolutely amazing set of short cartoons done by Lauren Faust (of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fame) for DC that focused on three super BFFs: The titular Super BFFs, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl oozed enough fun, chemistry, and general kick-buttedness that my daughter […]

DC Finally Realizes Girls are a Targetable Demographic – ‘DC ...

22 Apr, 2015 in Comics / Pop Culture tagged Comic Culture / DC / DC Super Hero Girls / Lauren Faust / MLP:FIM / Solomon Grundy No Fight Girls / Super BFFs by Anthony Karcz

Ever since I signed up for the incredibly awesome Marvel Unlimited service (you get access to nearly all of Marvel’s library, with a six-month delay on new issues), New Comic Day coincides with Marvel’s Monday refresh of the app. This morning I was thrilled to see I’m finally getting the […]

Bring Me the Brain of Charles Xavier!

6 Apr, 2015 in Book 2 / Comics / Pop Culture / The League Cycle tagged Axis / Book Two / Charles Xavier / Marvel / Marvel Unlimited / The League Cycle / X-Men by Anthony Karcz

Yup. yours too. Being a modern geek, I’m trained to be cynical, especially of things that others are excited about. And I tried. I really did. But a new Mad Max: Fury Road trailer just dropped and I lost it right about the time the guy started playing a […]

New ‘Mad Max’ Trailer Melts All the Eyeballs

31 Mar, 2015 in Movies tagged Mad Max / Movies / Uncategorized by Anthony Karcz

So there are people on the internet that are absolutely losing their shit over the newly leaked “All-New, All-Different Avengers” cover. The new line-up actually hews fairly closely to modern team incarnations: Thor, Iron Man, Captain American, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Vision, and Nova (who’s not a regular, but there’s always […]

“All-New, All-Different Avengers” Cover is Comic Evolution in Action

26 Mar, 2015 in Comics / Pop Culture tagged Avengers / Captain America / Comics / Diversity / Iron Man / Marvel / Ms. Marvel / Spider-Man / Thor / Vision by Anthony Karcz

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6 Mar, 2015 in Pop Culture tagged Jaws / t-shirts / TeeFury by Anthony Karcz

The End is Nigh offers up end of the world nightmare scenarios by some of my favorite authors: Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, and Paolo Bacigalupi (among many others). I’m usually not one to go in for anthologies. They can can be questionably curated, with only a few stories worth the price […]

What I’m Reading Now: The End is Nigh

2 Jul, 2014 in Books / Pop Culture tagged apocalypse / bacigalupi / fiction / hugh howdy / reading / seanan mcguire / t.s. eliot / trousers rolled by Anthony Karcz

Well damn, looks like I only have a few months in which to lock myself in a heuristically sealed control room with my DVR and some Cool Ranch Doritos and catch up on Arrow! CW has announced that The Flash is going to bow on October 7! I love what […]

Premiere Date for The Flash set for October

26 Jun, 2014 in Pop Culture / Television tagged Arrow / DC / Flash / Johnny Dodge / Latex Coffin / The League by Anthony Karcz

One of my early jobs out of college, I found myself with an entire month and nothing to do. Lucky for me, I had the internet and I’d just stumbled across a cache of digital comics that included the entire original run of Transformers, all 80 issues! As I pored […]

More than Meets the Obsession

19 Jun, 2014 in Comics / Pop Culture tagged Generation One / Hasbro / Marvel / More than Meets the Robo-Torture Porn / Nostalgia-bait / Transformers by Anthony Karcz

Welcome to The Backlog in which I comb through my ridiculously long library of unread titles (and some slightly more recent comics) and ruminate on issues that have been out for years/decades. This week, I tear into Avenging Spider-Man #1, which has a heavy Red Hulk presence. He was in […]

The Backlog: Avenging Spider-Man #1

20 Jan, 2014 in Comics / Pop Culture tagged Avengers / Avenging Spider-Man / Backlog / Jog Hippies / Marvel / Red Hulk / Spider-Man / Spidergirl sideboob by Anthony Karcz

A surprising thing happened this week on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. No, wait, sorry – surprising things don’t happen on that show unless Joss Whedon has taken a direct hand and written a scene. A surprising thing happened to me this week regarding Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I found that I […]

Agents of Meh

16 Jan, 2014 in Pop Culture / Television tagged Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. / Blizzard / Coulson / Deathlok / Graviton / Marvel / Quinn / Sandbox / Skye by Anthony Karcz