Bottom Line Up Front: Sixteen years later, DC's ambitious death-and-resurrection epic remains the blueprint for how to simultaneously kill everyone and immediately regret it—while somehow managing to influence every major comic book event that followed. Death Becomes Them In 2009, DC Comics made a bold creative decision: What if we killed literally everyone and turned … Continue reading The Future of Heroes: A Look at Blackest Night and Brightest Day
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The Weight of Paper and Time
The tremor started in my left hand on a Tuesday. I was hunched over a 1940s land survey map, magnifying glass poised above a water stain that might have been hiding a property boundary crucial to a decades-old inheritance dispute. The kind of painstaking work that had always felt like meditation to me—just me, the … Continue reading The Weight of Paper and Time
Question of the Week #457
When was the last time you felt real excitement and passion in your work? What about your life in general? How important is passion to you? This week's question from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions arrives loaded with cultural baggage about what passion is supposed to look like, when it's supposed to strike, and … Continue reading Question of the Week #457
Question of the Week #454
If your teenage son died in a freak accident, and you wanted another child, would you rather clone an identical twin of your dead son or try to have another child naturally? This week's question from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions ventures into territory that feels almost too sacred to explore—the devastating loss of … Continue reading Question of the Week #454
Question of the Week #418
Welcome back, dear readers, to another installment of our Question of the Week series. Today, we're diving into a real head-scratcher from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions. Brace yourselves for some existential pondering and maybe a mild existential crisis or two. Here's the question that's been keeping me up at night (not really, but … Continue reading Question of the Week #418
Question of the Week #358
It’s time for another philosophical and intriguing question from Gregory Stock’s The Book of Questions: If you knew that in a year you would die of a heart attack, how would you alter your life? But, hold on, what if I told you that you wouldn't be likely to make any changes? Sounds paradoxical, doesn't it? … Continue reading Question of the Week #358
31 – Ikiru
Welcome to The Best Movies I’ve Never Seen! This is the part of the blog where I work my way through 100 films I’ve never seen that are generally considered to be great. You’re invited to watch along with me if you can find a copy or find it streaming. So grab some popcorn and let’s … Continue reading 31 – Ikiru
Question of the Week #354
Today, I want to get into another thought-provoking scenario from Gregory Stock’s The Book of Questions. Imagine this: you go in for a routine medical examination, and your doctor delivers some earth-shattering news - you have a rare lymphatic cancer, and you've got only a month to live. Your world turns upside down in an instant. … Continue reading Question of the Week #354
Question of the Week #344
Ladies and gentlemen, and all the brilliant minds in between, after a nearly year-long hiatus, it's with great excitement that I reintroduce the much-awaited "Question of the Week" segment! It feels like a reunion with an old friend—albeit a friend who keeps asking the most thought-provoking and slightly perplexing questions. So, without further ado, let's … Continue reading Question of the Week #344
It’s Not Fair
I know... I know... Life's not fair. And to complain about something being unfair is to sound like a petulant child not getting his or her way. But it's really not fair to wake up in the morning with a headache. I mean, I haven't done anything to deserve the headache. I've just been sleeping. … Continue reading It’s Not Fair
The Confusing Middle 