Secret Report
The report of the Select Committee on Intelligence is full of redactions and omissions, but there are a lot of interesting things left. Here's a link to a fully-searchable Adobe PDF file of it. […]
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Stop Stan Lee!
If you surf political websites, as I do when I need to get away from the more realistic worlds of comic books and animation, you may come across ads that say "Stop Stan Lee!" These have nothing to do with the Editor Emeritus of Marvel Comics. There's a very Conservative Republican State Senator in Kentucky […]
The Cat's Coming!
We're about two weeks from the official release of the DVD set of Garfield and Friends, Volume One, and reviews (like this one) are beginning to appear. I wrote almost everything on this set…which is not, by the way, the first season. There are 24 half-hours on this new DVD release. We did 13 half-hours […]
Recommended Viewing
If you haven't seen this yet, take a few minutes and enjoy a clever bit of Flash animation and political humor. It's a parody of "This Land Is Your Land…" performed by Mssrs. Bush and Kerry. And it's awfully good. […]
Comic-Con Schedule
The programming schedule for this year's Comic-Con International has been posted and once again, Programming Director Gary Sassaman has done an incredible job of assembling an array of panels, interviews, screenings, lectures and happenings. If you'd like to see which events you're going to miss because they're on opposite other events you want to see, […]
Semi-Great Debate
Tonight around 20 minutes after Midnight, C-Span 1 is rerunning the Howard Dean/Ralph Nader debate. (An online video is also available on the C-Span Website.) The theme, more or less, was Dean's contention that Nader ought to get out of the presidential race, lest he suck up enough votes to get Bush 'n' Cheney another […]
Stan All Over the Place
Stan Lee guests on Dennis Miller's CNBC show on Friday, July 16. The A&E Channel reruns the episode of Biography about him (and with me among the interviewees) early the morning of Sunday, July 18. And then the weekly Variety that comes out the following day features a special section on Stan and another special […]
I'd Rather Fight Than Switch
Okay, it's time we stuck you with this one to think about. Let's say you go on the game show Let's Make a Deal, and you have your choice of three doors. Behind one is the grand prize of a car. Behind the other two are goats. You pick a door. Let's say you pick […]
We Like Jon Daily
We continue to recommend The Daily Show With Jon Stewart as the cleverest show on television. Lately, we've especially enjoyed this report by correspondent Samantha Bee on a man who's making a documentary against Michael Moore. We also recommend this commentary by Lewis Black on folks who are merchandising the death of Ronald Reagan. (Stay […]
Speaking of Steve Ditko…
Over on his weblog, Jim Henley asks some pointed questions about how Ditko's well-known Objectivist philosophy meshed with the famous theme of "With great power, there must come great responsibility." Well, one answer is that it didn't. Ditko quit the company, remember — and while a lot of that was because he felt the publisher […]
Weather Report
For what it's worth, it looks like those of us attending the Comic-Con in San Diego in two weeks will do so under mostly clear skies. Expect highs in the mid-seventies, lows in the low-sixties. And while we're at it: No, I don't know where you can find a hotel room at this late date. […]
Ditko in the Press
Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man, doesn't do interviews but that didn't stop the author of this article from quoting some personal correspondence with him. I hope he got Ditko's permission to do this. […]
Mark's Comic-Con International Schedule
It's less than two weeks until a lot of us will be truckin' on down to San Diego and the Comic-Con International. Here's what I'll be doing there and where I'll be doing it… THURSDAY, JULY 22 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM / Room 8 • SPOTLIGHT ON MIKE ROYER He started assisting the great […]
Peak of Excitement
One of my favorite commercial illustrators was the late Bob Peak. You may not know the name but you know the style. The repros on this website do not do his work full justice but are still enjoyable. […]
Recommended Reading
A lot of people have savaged Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, and I agree that Moore left himself open to a lot of criticism. But in the negative reviews I've read — and I've read a lot of them — I don't think I've seen any criticism or fault found with two of the film's […]