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There are certain comics that are really just meant to be looked at, and Brendan McCarthy’s Spider-Man: Fever is one of them. McCarthy makes images that lunge for whatever part of the brain feels the tremor of the uncanny. His most spectacular pages elicit a giggle, then a slow stare, and then (if you’re really [...]
Barnes & Noble Nook, you take the lead in e-book readers this round. Amazon, we’re awaiting your counterpoint software update.
A friend forwarded me a review of The Losers by the Hollywood Reporter, and I was a little startled to read the opening sentiments: “The Losers is a cartoonish nonstop action movie in which characters zip around the world, breaking, entering and blowing things up without any pretense to logic,” it begins. “It’s a world [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sorry about the late post, this week has been busy. That, and I’m nearly out of synonyms for terrible.
There’s only so much I can say about a Windows Mobile device without wanting to gnaw my own foot off. The software is horrendous and the only people I ever encounter that have one are Microsoft employees or the PR folk who represent them. But the HTC HD2 for T-Mobile is different enough – screen [...]
Say hello to the next victim of the Madden Curse. It’s real!
I know some of my colleagues have had choice words for Roger Ebert this week – mainly over his refusal to even consider the possibility that video games might be their own art form.
Capcom’s throwing another hapless dude into a modern American zombie horde later this year and they’re finally talking about what the experience will be like.
At first, it’s tough not to dispel Del Ray’s upcoming Little Women & Werewolves ($14, Amazon) as just another literary mash-up. After all, there are almost too many monster-infused titles to separate the good from the groan-worthy.
