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Gerry Conway got away with murder, back in the day. He was a young kid who got some prestigious writing gigs at Marvel. He’s the guy that wrote Spider-man #121, the death of Gwen Stacy. Must admit, I think I kinda hated him after that for awhile. It wasn’t entirely his fault but that’s anotherContinue reading “Fantastic Friday looks at FF #137”

As a Doctor Who fan, first, if you haven’t caught the latest ep, spoilers coming, you’ve been warned. But damn, showrunner Chris Chibnall has presented fandom with a puzzle regarding who exactly this new Doctor is. What makes this particular puzzle extra tricky is that the guy who set it up, Chibs, may have totallyContinue reading “Wracking my brain about Jo Martin”

Chris Chibnall is the current showrunner on Doctor Who. He is not thought too highly of as a writer or a showrunner in many circles. Some things about Chibs: In the mid ’80’s, an early teen Chris Chibnall appeared with other members of a Doctor Who fan club on a live TV show with thenContinue reading “Chibey Chib Chib-Chibs’ first half of his era”

The dead machine burst through the clouds at Mach one within a green sphere. Inside the renegade flight simulator, the test pilot had no control, so he held tight, trying to keep a cool head. In the distance, large rocky outcroppings were approaching very quickly. But just as the pilot’s heart threatened to hammer freeContinue reading “No Evil Shall Escape His Sight”

***WARNING: Spoilers abound!**** With this daring adventure, Chibnall either began unveiling his own master plan which has been brewing since he got the gig but decided to wait until he was halfway through his run to enact it… or the Beeb had made it very apparent that he had to up his game BIG timeContinue reading “DWS12E4: Fugitive of the Judoon!”

I don’t think I have an unhealthy obsession with Breaking Bad. If I did, I’d probably still be watching it now, over and over. I believe I’ve watched the entire series at least five times. It’s not exact because I’m sure I went back and rewatched the earliest eps more often whenever I went backContinue reading “I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!”

Time was, in major league baseball, pitchers could and would add substances to the baseball. Vaseline, an emery board, you name it, anything to get the ball juuuust right for their pitches. Eventually, it went very public and the League had to step in. Gaylord Perry bragged about his mistreatment of the ball (cheating) allContinue reading “There’s No Crying in Baseball! Plenty of Cheating Though”

Today, we’re going to highlight a few of the more unusual pieces from my Thing collection. Once in a while, I would search through eBay for interesting figures of the Thing in one form or another. There are some truly great ones and bizarre ones that I’ve never bothered with because of the price butContinue reading “Look at my Thing”

Time to put this to bed. I’ll say they stuck the landing, what the hell. It would have been very difficult to maintain the quality they built to in part 3 but they did a decent job.  Arrow: Part four was the establishing of Ollie as the Spectre, the origin story of the Monitor andContinue reading “CW’s DCVU Crisis Completed!”

• As a regular contributor to the Doctor Who Companion — a lovely website run by a lovely man, Philip Bates, — it was my turn to do the full on review for the latest episode of Series 12, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror”. Written by Nina Metivier, the story takes place in 1903 NewContinue reading “Shameless plugs…”