It's official, Disney has just purchased Marvel and their beefy line of characters for $4 billion and stock options. Diseny has made the move in a push to secure the male demographic that has eluded ...
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Read more »When the film adaptation of one of your favourite books comes out, there are usually two reactions one regularly feels: excitement and caution. With the release of Watchmen I felt both as I lined ...
Read more »- Unfiinshed David Foster Wallace book. Apparently, he was trying to ween himself off anti-depressants and write with that type of existential turn: the clear mind. Below is part of a speech that he ...
Read more »Today I thought I'd talk about how great Garth Ennis is. I picked up his latest opus The Boys recently and it destroys almost everything else I'm reading right now. The story follows a group of "boys" ...
Read more »As most of you are aware, I was writing a comic called "Body of an Intern," which I shelved due to writer's block, lack of interest, laziness, etc. As I was writing it, I wrote a companion journal to ...
Read more »5) Green Lantern Hal Jordan is the greatest of all the Green Lanterns. Or so the Guardians thought. After his mental breakdown following the destruction of his hometown of Coast City, Hal Jordan ...
Read more »2008 was an important year in the world. The Russians attacked Georgia, the economic crisis took the world by storm, and Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected president of ...
Read more »"And there is some pretty sick porn out there with overt violence against women. Even the mainstream stuff has a very male-dominants-a female object vibe. But I don't know if that necessarily translates into misogynistic attitudes. I watch violence on TV ..."
Aman"I am definitely not a fan of exclusion either. I think the Internet has sped up the sharing of culture and language (slang) so much that it's only natural that other people would get genuinely interested in facets of black culture. Granted you always run ..."
Aman"I will say one thing I love about her (besides her acting): she's one of the few actors in Hollywood I actually want to hang out with. Just watched her on Kimmel and she's hilarious. Fun, funny, self-deprecating, doesn't take herself seriously, prone to ..."
Colin"I'm skeptical of the stat saying rape has declined. I know it's referring to incidences of rape, but a stat I read from Stats Canada said one-third of rape victims don't report the crime. So how do you really measure such a thing? I'm also not buying ..."
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"i doubt there's a causal relationship between porn and rape... but i think a society that tolerates more liberal attitudes towards sex (and porn) would be much less stifling, and likely to create an environment that will create people to act in a ..."
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