Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the One Last Joke
I posted my final cartoon making fun of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Friday. (I don’t usually post new cartoons on a Friday, but I was running one day behind last week.) If you missed it, just check out the Archived Comics page! See you back here tomorro
“Me… I’m Gone!”
I remember the first time I heard a George Carlin album. It was when I was 13, spending my summers (as I always did, and still do!) at Camp Ramah in New England. Someone in my bunk had a cassette tape with a short routine: Carlin’s classic “seven words you can’t say
Narnian Questions
First of all, sorry for no new cartoon today! Slight technical difficulties. I’ll be posting it tomorrow — a rare Friday post! But as Bill Cosby says (in the greatest stand-up performance ever committed to film, Bill Cosby Himself), that’s not what I came here to tal
The Greatest Generation
I have been (and always shall be) a die-hard Star Trek Fan. But this past decade has been a rough time to be a Star Trek Fan. The last two Star Trek TV series have been terrible (Star Trek: Voyager) and mediocre (Star Trek: Enterprise). The last two Star Trek movies have been mediocre
News Around the Net
Every now and then a great, cancelled-before-its-time TV show earns a magical second chance. My favorite recent example of this is the staggeringly underrated Futurama. This wonderfully bizarre and hysterical show, created by Matt Groening, was cancelled back in 2005, but it was reviv
Season Finale Round-up
Well, its been a somewhat bizarre strike-interrupted TV season. The most exciting new program I watched this year was The Wire which, as I’ve mentioned in this blog before, is what got me through the months-long writers strike. But there was still a lot of fun TV-watching to be
“They only lack the light to show the way”
As an addendum to my list of my five favorite super-hero movies posted at the start of this week, here are three super-hero movies that I consider to be tremendously under-rated: Superman Returns — I just don’t understand the almost universal apathy or even dislike towards
With Great Power…
I love comic books. And that means that I grew up with a great love of super-hero stories. These days its true that many of my favorite comic books have little to do with super-heroes (looking through my “to-read” pile I see titles like David Lapham’s Young Liars, St
Indiana Jones and the Long Weekend
I’ve gotten quite a response, via e-mail, to yesterday’s review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! I truly wish I had better things to say about that movie. Maybe some of you out there will enjoy it more than I did. No new cartoon on Monday because of t
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I just returned from a midnight showing. What follows are my spoiler-free thoughts. Boy. They did it to me again. I have never been more disappointed walking out of a movie theatre than I was after sitting through Star Wars: Episode I back in 1999. It truly never occurred to me that E