Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Having me review the 1980s American TV series The Golden Girls can ultimately become a review of the sitcom format itself. The very observational tools I have for evaluating a sitcom comes from watching this show. Glimmers of that television show are some of my first viable memories. The timing...

Although the burst of steam I had for The Venture Brothers tapered off enough to cause an almost month-long gulf since the last blog post about the show, the sting of the show’s ending still lingers in the flavors of my thoughts. The television show (essentially about growing out of youthful...

There are still plenty of Venture Brothers graphics to go around, so there are plenty more blog posts to come pontificating on the graces of super science, calamitous intent, and brotherly love. Maybe eight posts will be the goal. There were about eight seasons of the show.

The second...

For the past dozen blog posts, the precedent has been set that the graphic material for each blog post is representative of the blog post content. Given that precedent, there will be an abundance of written material to go along with the nine or so Venture Brothers pictures I’ve made over the...

Today I’m going to be talking about the X-Men. The animated X-Men ‘97 is the catalyst that stirred me to reach into the deeper mythos of the X-Men franchise. I can already tell this will be a multi-part blog entry so let's get down to brass tacks about The Uncanny X-Men before we talk about how...

Although the actual subject of this review is the 2024 TV series production of Shogun, I will be mostly talking about the novel it is based upon. Before we get onto my ramblings about Japan and fiction, I’ll give a summary appraisal of the series (I’ve watched up to episode 8 of 10). The show is...