I wrote up the following piece for IFC.com, looking at some of the elements I thought were going to be in “Captain America: The First Avenger” but weren’t, and some of the elements I would’ve liked to see a little more of: Last week, I reviewed “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Marvel’s final solo-superhero film [...]

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I received a lot of nice messages about the last two Monday Mix link roundups, so it seemed appropriate to start running one of these on Friday, too. After all, that’s the day of the week when things usually slow down enough for me to surf the ‘net at a leisurely pace instead of the [...]

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I’ll be absent from Comic-Con this year (but hopefully following along with the fun via the COMIC-CON PHOTO HUNT), so you should picture a single tear running down my cheek while I wrote my first piece for Movies.com. Comic-Con is almost here, and while the thought of everything that will happen during the four-day event [...]

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Merry Christmas! Now go burn some stuff… From Wikipedia: The first mention of the Yule log in the British Isles is a written account by the clergyman Robert Herrick, from the 1620s or 1630s. Herrick called the tradition a “Christmas log” and said that it was brought into the farmhouse by a group of males, [...]

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From “The Gingerdead Man” to “Evil Dead” Christmas comics, it’s been far too easy to find five days of holiday weirdness. Now, for Day Six, I bring you the gift of song (or something resembling song): Twisted Sister: Oh Come All Ye Faithful But wait… there’s more!

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So… some of you might know that I get paid to write about comics and the comic book industry. Yes, some of you might be well aware of the fact that covering comics is actually my job. I know — it amazes me sometimes, too. What you might not know is that the holiday season [...]

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Yesterday was murderous holiday cookies possessed by the soul of Gary Busey, and today is, well… It’s hard to follow up Gary Busey with anything, really, but I hope this will suffice. In this round of Holiday Weirdness, I give you the successor to murderous holiday cookies: a Genocidal Christmas Tree. Yes, it’s a Christmas [...]

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