I don’t actually like horror movies. I’m not afraid of them or anything like that. I mostly just don’t care for them. It’s actually kind of weird that I don’t. I tend to actually like genre fiction a lot. And in fact I find the genre conventions of horror fascinating (and in fact, if you’re…
So I’ve been doing dissertation research (because apparently that’s just the rest of my life) and I’m currently reading all the way through a book that I’d only read sections of before. Peter Coogan’s Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre. One of the things I’ve been struggling with in writing my dissertation was the…
To paraphrase the Man, “Whether you like it, or you hate it, learn to love it, ‘cuz it’s the best thing going today.” I really didn’t see myself doing another comic book post so soon after the last one. I was intending to write my thoughts on why I think the FCC really needs to completely…