We’ve talked before about the “earworm,” a song or snippet thereof that gets stuck in your head, repeating and repeating, chiming endlessly through your poor skull until you want to run your head over with a clockwork train like Gomez Addams. This afternoon, it happened to the Widget in the car, forcing me to play OTHER songs at top volume to keep her from humming three seconds of a song that she didn’t know the end of, thereby making it impossible for her to end the process by singing the song all the way through. I once knew a woman…
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It’s the 101st episode! This time, I have a fun discussion with Curt Pires, scripter of such good things as Theremin at MonkeyBrainComics.com! We talk about what makes this book so unique and his past work as well. Don’t miss it! Then I give the latest “News & Previews,“ including what’s going to arrive in comics shops on Wednesday, September 25. Next week: Episode 102! http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/wcomics101.mp3 Direct Download Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe to the Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed! Major Spoilers Podcast Network Master Feed RSS Feed Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a…
In this episode of Critical Hit, A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: The team says farewell to the Everdeep Forest and enters the Mootlands, where they learn more about the Seven Clans Total Control Area.
This week I was shocked to find that the endless promos heralding the return of ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’ weren’t just some elaborate joke on the viewers (insert remark about how the show itself is the joke blah blah blah fishcakes.) For my part, if they were gonna reanimate the pop-culture corpses of the Clinton Administration, I’d have preferred that they bring back Mystery Science Theatre 3000, or perhaps throw Jim Carrey’s floundering career a bone with a retake on ‘In Living Color.’ Even though, when it comes to talk shows, I’m not particularly interested in watching even when I…
As a young lad on the plains of Kansas, I enjoyed the arena-rock stylings of Styx, Journey and especially Boston. One of Boston’s most impressive songs, ‘Rock & Roll Band,’ is a classically embossed tale of their rise to prominence, the kind of self-aggrandizing madness that I find myself having to admire. Later, I encountered the works of Tenacious D (the greatest rock duo in the history of the universe), a band that actually has several different songs explaining their history and/or cosmic origins. Maybe it’s because of my love of professional wrestling and the traditional badass entrance theme (I’m…
Film Techniques We Would Like to See Removed 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. There are some film techniques that are overused to the point where they have become a bore, and in this episode we rank them from five all the way to number one.
Recently, Grant Morrison made some waves with his interpretation of the last scene of the 1988 Alan Moore/Brian Bolland graphic novel opus, ‘The Killing Joke,’ (which also triggered our discussion of that rather imposing tome in the latest Major Spoilers Podcast.) Morrison opined that “no one gets the end” of the book, explaining that (in his analysis) the final sequence depicts Batman finally crossing the line and snapping his old enemy’s neck just off-panel, finally giving their decades-old rivalry an ending. The roots of the idea do touch something which admittedly is an appealing concept for comics, providing the story…
IT’S NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! Major Spoilers runs down the comics we are looking forward to, and recommending, this week.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: The Killing Joke. No, really. We haven’t done this book before. Also, the Champions, The Legend of Korra, and The Shadow! But no Zach…
Smart kids. Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s something about the precocious little tykes that continues to attract the imaginations and minds of creators around the world. But which kid genius is the most brilliant? Who could outsmart whom? VOTE! [poll id=”302″]
Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games. This week on Munchkin Minute, we ask the question, how big of a set is too big of a set? We also want to hear from you to find out how many Munchkin sets you own.
When it comes to the definition of a pop-culture badass, it’s often in the eye of the beholder, and while you’ll hear a lot of talk about Batman, Wolverine and Jean Valjean, you don’t often hear people discussing Eddie Izzard or Prickle the clay dragon. Spending time as I do on the internet, I find many people enthusing about the wonderful Mal Reynolds, or that guy Walter Breakingbad from that show whose name I can’t remember, but it’s also wonderful when there’s one guy who has an entire site devoted to the most epic moments of awesome by the likes…
Another week has come and gone, and with the days getting shorter (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere), the time we’re able to spend checking out this site grows ever shorter… right? In any case, here’s a rundown of some of the top stories you may have missed this week.