Tonight, with a living room full of ten-year-old girls, we discovered that Monopoly is still incredibly boring, even if it’s cat-themed and the actual cat wants to keep jumping on the board. Widget also had problems with my alternate rules of the game (I was trying to explain the shorter, “shuffle-and-hand-out-properties-so-that-the-thing-finishes-before-doomsday” version), even though we use the “pay your fines to Park Place and collect if you land on Free Parking” variation on the game. When it comes to boardgames, there’s a fine line between fun and murderous rampage, and games such as Sorry, Backgammon and Parcheesi are still banned…
Browsing: Major Spoilers
Everybody has their berserk buttons when it comes to the things we enjoy, and for me, one of the biggest is the woefully frequent moment where somebody whines that Ted Mosby hasn’t yet met the mother of his children. (A close second is the point where people chastise us for being called ‘Major Spoilers’ and still having reservations about spoiling everything…) That far-too-literal mindset tends to fill me with inexplicable rage, from people who want to know why Deep Space Nine doesn’t have enough “trekking” in it or how one actually breaks bad. It’s a facile, superficial thing to complain…
This week on The Want List Audio Edition….we cover your feet, we’re hunting ghosts, Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang!
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Shhh… They’re listening to you Zach. This week Zach gets inside The Conversation.
As a comic-book fan for the better part of 35 years, I’ve seen a lot of change, but few properties (short of the Legion of Super-Heroes) have been through the iterations that have gripped The Batman. When I began reading comics, Bats was in his mid-30s, ready to adopt his ward and dealing with the likes of Nocturna, The Night-Slayer and Black Mask, in his very first appearance. Over the ensuring decades, DC has printed literally THOUSANDS of Bat-comics, some of which have been wonderful, and some of which have been All-Star Batman. Stephen likes to needle me that I…
The latest Dueling Review is up and running, and the content of the issue makes me once again wonder about the fate that DC editorial has planned for Dick Grayson, the man known as Nightwing. Many on the internet make a lot out of the previous plans to kill Nightwing (during 2006’s ‘Infinite Crisis’) and how this is just delayed editorial caveat, but there’s more to it than that. In a reworked ‘5 year old’ universe, Grayson is either younger than previously or became Robin at a *much* earlier age, in addition to having spent a much shorter time in…
Books We’ve Read Recently Top Five is a show where the hosts categorize, rank, compare, and stratify everything… from cars to gadgets to people and movies. From stuff that is hot, and things that are not nearly as interesting – it’s Top Five. We do read other things besides comic books and cereal boxes – sometimes we actually read those other word books, and this week we run down five books we’ve read recently.
Matthew and Stephen are back, Jack! This week the duo take a gander at Nightwing #29 and discuss the issue of why every book is someone’s first book.
This summer marks the 15th Anniversary of the release of “Mystery Men,” a movie based on Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot comics, and one which gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield at Venice Beach. “At least it’s better than *Mystery Men*”, goes the refrain of certain wags at my comic shop, leaving me to wonder what the problem is. Admittedly, the film has its flaws (it willfully provides employment for Dane Cook, for one), but “weird” is not the same as bad. I have a similar problem with a friend’s assessment of “Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan”: She denounces…
It’s New Comic Book Day! What should you pick up this week? The Major Spoilers Staff runs down the titles they are most looking forward to this week.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, more Flash, ComiXology get hacked, the Six Million Dollar Man, The Movement, Witchblade, and your comments! Thanks to Shades of Vengeance for sponsoring this episode, check out their Era: The Consortium Kickstarter Tabletop RPG campaign.
Even though this website is called MajorSpoilers.com, I still don’t like it when serious plot points in a story I’m looking forward to reading are given away. And I steer clear of ruining a story for anyone else as a result.
This week on Munchkin Land, a trio of players sit down to play another card game – FLUXX. Thanks to Shades of Vengeance for sponsoring this episode, check out their Era: The Consortium Kickstarter Tabletop RPG campaign.