OK, so you know how "Watchmen" is coming out on Friday? And how it's based on what is usually agreed to be the best comic book of all time? And how every comic book nerd on the planet has his Ambush Bug boxer shorts in a twist, hoping that it'll be good but secretly worried that it's going to suck like every other adaptation of an Alan Moore book ( Read more... )

I finally felt well enough today to go see "The Dark Knight" and I am still, hours later, at a loss to accurately describe it.

It's one of the most complex, nuanced movies I've seen in recent memory, despite being "just a comic book movie." Chris Nolan and his brother Jonathan took the idea from Alan Moore's legendary one-shot The Killing Joke ( Read more... )

A full review is forthcoming, but I'm completely engrossed in the audiobook version of this Neal Stephenson novel from Audible. I can't ever seem to make a Neal Stephenson book sound compelling when I describe it; they always come across as strange hybrids of fiction and textbook but I can't seem to get enough of it. I think I read "Snow Crash" ( Read more... )

Or "The Perfect Casting Job ( Read more... )