Oh, the good ol' days…
Oct 06…when major comic events were short! And on time!
Apparently Marvel and DC have been scaling the scope of their event arcs to match my income bracket, the bastards.
Big image after the jump.
Here come da judge!
Oct 05A wise writer friend predicted, after LOST’s first season, that the backlash would begin in season three – as cool as the show was and as hot as the show was, he contended that the straights couldn’t roll with the show for more than two seasons. It may well survive beyond season three, but the whining would begin at that time; and holy shit, he was right.
I’m just calling bullshit on Dahnart’s whole piece – the ongoing mystery, the waxing and waning of things that keep us wondering, that whole sine wave of a comic-style plot, is the major conceit of the show. The show is entirely about wondering what is going on and what will happen next. That’s the whole point.
It would be like complaining that you weren’t going to watch 24 any more, because, oh, those writers think they’re so clever, making every episode a single hour of rough real-time. Or complaining that Oz had too many shankings.
Somehow, soap operas have survived for decades on the same principle as LOST, only in a much suckier way – a never-ending story, where twists and turns abound, threads are dropped without explanation, only to be revived years later, to keep things moving and to keep viewers on their toes. And nobody complains.
You try it in primetime, and suddenly your writers are hacks.
Whatever, Andy. I think your Mom’s calling you to dinner and Prison Break (you know, that show where every season is about… a prison break.)
Dresser – 25 years
Sep 25What happens when a guy has the same pair of dressers from childhood as a cartoon fan student to adulthood as a cartoon fan, rockstar, and Dungeons and Dragon illustrator?
You get nerdness as Anthropology.
Oh, to be in Italy, now that Fall is here…
Sep 20Spotted this one on the shelves of the local super magazine store and it damn near killed me.
Oh, what? Like Matt and Sarah get to have TV crushes, and I don’t?
