Scritti Politti: March 10, 2009
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but readers of Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room know that as the weather turns warmer, the uptick in ne...
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but readers of Romenesko's Obscure Store and Reading Room know that as the weather turns warmer, the uptick in ne...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.04.2009 | Entertainment
The production is handsome, the acting is exceptional, and the special effects are mostly effective. But, at the end of the day, Watchmen is not an exciting story.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.25.2009 | Entertainment
Exciting, funny, violent as hell, and displaying an almost angry feminist streak, Wonder Woman succeeds so well as a definitive origin story that it almost renders the eventual live-action movie a moot point.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.20.2009 | Entertainment
Based on one of the most collected and memorable comic book runs in history, the movie Watchmen tries to be all things cosmic and ambiguously moral to all of us.
AP | LISA TOLIN | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted t...
Harut Sassounian | Posted 12.23.2008 | Entertainment
The mayor of Batman, a small city in southeastern Turkey, is planning to sue Christopher Nolan, the director of The Dark Knight, and Warner Brothers studios for royalties.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.09.2008 | Entertainment
In this current age of rebooting one comic franchise or horror franchise after another, it is still something of a milestone that we have a single property that has been rebooted twice in just four years by the same studio.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment
Stan Lee turned out to be about the nicest famous person I've ever met. First, he let us sit in on the interview. Then when the interview was over, he didn't turn off. I don't know if he has an "off."
Daily Telegraph | Posted 11.21.2008 | Entertainment
Hergé's startling confession is just one of the revealing insights into his private thoughts, including love declarations to his first wife and a gui...
The Daily Telegraph | Jon Swaine | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics • He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball • His name mea...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment
I know I give Marvel all kinds of crap (the recutting of Incredible Hulk and Daredevil, forcing Sam Raimi to use Venom in Spider-Man 3, playing chicke...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.08.2008 | Entertainment
Just for fun, here is a rundown of the best performances by an actor/actress playing a comic book villain in the short, 30-year history of the modern ...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment
I didn't get to see Mad Men till just before the first season came out on DVD/BluRay. Everything you've heard about the show is true. It really is t...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
You can have all the paper ballots in the world, but if you don't demand to look at them, publicly, in a recount, you might as well mark them with invisible ink. Democracy requires vigilance.
CNet | Rafe Needleman | Posted 09.01.2008 | Business
Word surfaced Monday of a Web "comic book" introducing Google Chrome, the search giant's long-rumored open-source browser project. While the illustrat...
Bryan Young | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment
Former Presidential Candidate Savage Dragon announced today his intention to endorse the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. Some of you ma...
New York Magazine | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
Last week, when Warner Bros. announced it was developing a video game to promote the release of next year's Watchmen film, we figured it'd be just ano...
Jack Donaldson | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment
The comic book genre in general hasn't really inspired much wonder for CGI; if anything, it's provided a glut in effects that makes the films less impressive.
Peter Miller | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
Howard Zinn's new, A People's History of American Empire provides a damning account of America's empire building - And it does it all with cartoons.
Guardian.co.uk | Kira Cochrane | Posted 01.23.2008 | Living
Think of a comics convention, and what springs to mind? Gaggles of teenage boys gawping over the latest Batman toys? Men leading reluctant girlfriends...
Joan Garry | Posted 12.14.2007 | Living
It has been a fascinating exercise. Eileen and I won this item at a school auction. A fellow parent creates a comic book for and about our family. ...
Tom Tomorrow | Posted 10.25.2007 | Media
A public schoolteacher has been forced to resign -- and faced the threat of criminal prosecution -- for giving a student a graphic novel as a reading assignment.
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HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.10.2009 | Politics