Don’t Know Dick
Feb 25Sam Register, one of the minds behind the animated Teen Titans series (not a bad show, but miles below Bruce Timm’s groundbreaking Batman/Superman/League animated series), when asked whether the Robin in Titans is Dick Grayson or Tim Drake (aside: incidentally, Grayson is the only answer that makes sense), answers: “I am so completely bored with [...]
I’ll Take Manhattan
Feb 25I’m watching Maddow interviewing Pelosi on security briefings that Pelosi received but was not allowed to reveal. Pelosi says that thanks to security requirements, she could not speak out against policies she disapproved of. Duh, of course she could. Has she never heard of civil disobedience? Maddow compares Pelosi to Spider-man and Dr. Manhattan, both [...]
Brainiac versus the Toyman
Feb 25Here’s a piece of both comic-book trivia and IP trivia that I didn’t previously know: the DC character Brainiac – humanoid computer and frequent Superman antagonist – originally was just some green alien guy and (despite his computer-sounding name) not a computer at all. But when the prior inventor of a toy computer likewise named [...]
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