Back in 2010, I ran reaction to the trailer to the then-upcoming Green Lantern movie, starring Ryan Reynolds in a role he would later regret taking. With
NEW YORK It’s been a slow walk toward respectability for comic books, a medium that in the 1930s and 1940s was disreputable and lowly enough that it accepted Jews. Of course, the industry didn’t just accept them it was created by Jews who ran every aspect of the business.
Two such young men who singlehandedly invented the concept of the superhero comic are Cleveland’s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. To find scribes with a greater impact on culture, one may have to travel all the way back to Mount Sinai. Advertisement
From the days of my youth, I’ve obsessed over outlandish science fiction and fantasy stories. My whole childhood was punctuated with sighs as my mother discovered me ignoring my homework to watch “Star Trek,” which she naturally called “Star
The past decade has been a golden age for children’s animated television, and
Adventure Time led the charge. Starting life as a cute but seemingly inessential fantasy about a candy kingdom, a bubblegum princess, a boy named Finn and his malleable talking-dog best friend, Jake, the series quickly expanded its scope without ever losing its sense of wonder and playfulness. Exploring the pains of adolescence, building a mythology without ever seeming to strain for it, experimenting with different formats, finding depth and tragedy in a villain as goofy as the Ice King nothing was out of bounds. At once complex and instantly accessible,