As evidence of the title of this post, I offer the following three exhibits. Last Wednesday, Robert Culp died. Robert Culp first became a TV star in the late 1950s as the lead in a Western series entitled Trackdown. Culp played a Texas Ranger whose job involved — as the more mentally nimble among you [...]
Archive for March 2010
On television, everything dies
March 29, 2010Comic Art Friday: Not for little boys
March 26, 2010It’s one of the two most indelibly memorable introductory lines ever written for a woman in comics: I am P’Gell… and this is NOT a story for little boys! Over the past three Comic Art Fridays,we’ve met a collection of ladies I like to call The Spirit’s Bombshells! — the pivotal female characters from Will [...]
Supergirl is now officially Superwoman
March 25, 2010Twenty-one years ago today, my daughter KM was born. And, as they say in the comics, nothing would ever be the same again. Clearly, from my perspective, KM’s birth is far and away the most significant event ever to occur on March 25 throughout the entirety of human history. (Which, if you think about it, [...]
The Swan Tunes In: Justified
March 24, 2010I’m a notoriously tough hombre to convince of anything, but after a mere two episodes, I’m ready to say this straight out… Justified is the best show on television right now. The words “right now” are key to the above sentence, because TV’s best drama (and, not coincidentally, another FX series), Sons of Anarchy, is [...]
Dancing in the dark, walking through the park, and reminiscing
March 23, 2010This headline struck me with a lightning bolt of nostalgia: Fruitport Township Board OKs casino agreements with Little River Band You know, I loved me some Little River Band back in the day. A series of charmingly pleasant pop hits made the Melbourne, Australia-based LRB ubiquitous on American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary radio in [...]
Comic Art Friday: Sand storm
March 19, 2010In our most recent Comic Art Friday editions, we’ve looked at two of the four pinups that artist Darryl (Green Lantern) Banks created for my Bombshells! commission series, spotlighting the memorable women of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Two weeks ago, we talked about the genesis of my Spirit’s Bombshells! project, and featured Darryl’s lovely rendition [...]
Idol 2010: Your Top 12 finalists, America
March 16, 2010When last we left those crazy kids on American Idol, there were twice as many of them. Now that we’re down to the Top 12, let’s see how the competition has shaped up. First off, my prognosticating skills positively reek this season. In forecasting the six female singers who’d make it this far, I batted [...]
Comic Art Friday: (Silk) Satin doll
March 12, 2010Last week on Comic Art Friday, we debuted the first of artist Darryl Banks’s four Bombshells! pinups featuring the women of The Spirit, Will Eisner’s groundbreaking comic series from the 1940s and ’50s. Here’s the second of The Spirit’s Bombshells, Sylvia “Silk” Satin. Before we get to Satin’s story, though, let’s talk a little about [...]
The Two Coreys: Now with 50% less Corey
March 10, 2010The subhead on the San Francisco Chronicle‘s SF Gate home page got it wrong about Corey Haim. According to the Chron, “The 1980s teen star of Lost Boys and Lucas struggled with drugs as an adult.” That’s exactly backward. Corey Haim didn’t struggle with drugs. He struggled to be without drugs. Apparently, he lost. The [...]
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