Spawn of “Everything You Need To Know About Comics”
Apr 28My regular readers are already familiar with the terrifying radioactive origins of Batman, Robin, Man-Bat, Black Canary, and Green Lantern. But wait, there’s more! Iron Man was a man who got his powers through being bitten by a radioactive iron. The Sandman was a man who got his powers through being bitten by some radioactive [...]
Between Two Russells
Apr 28As Aristotle observes, virtue is often a mean between a vice of deficiency and a vice of excess. I think the same is true of attitudes toward reading the “great books.” On the one hand there is the vice of deficient deference to the text; this is what Arnold Bennett complains of in his article [...]
Click Here For Punishment!
Apr 28I see that my 1999 Social Philosophy & Policy article “The Irrelevance of Responsibility” (which is mostly about the application of libertarian rights theory to issues of legal responsibility and punishment) is now online at Google Books. (The preview of the issue is limited, but my article is complete.)
Bilbo Del Toro
Apr 26Right after my fake Hobbit announcement is perhaps not the best time for a real Hobbit announcement, but here it is anyway. (Conical hat top to AICN.)
Bag End
Apr 26Check out Frank Miller’s little-known adaptation of The Hobbit. Really. Would I fool you?
Space Space Baby
Apr 25With various Jack Kirby collections out (Fourth World, Eternals, Black Panther, Devil Dinosaur, Silver Star, the first half of Kamandi) or on the way (OMAC, Demon, Captain Victory), one more I’d like to see (though the copyright issues are probably trickier than in the other cases) is his 2001: A Space Odyssey material, which consists [...]
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