Culture of Pop
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 10 - Ellen DeGeneres
Image courtesy of the "Ellen DeGeneres - Here and Now" video posted on YouTube. Ellen DeGeneres has been making people laugh and offending no one (except I suppose homophobes) for a long, long , time....
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 16 - Hellboy
While two powerhouse comic book companies were defining themselves as either bright and fun or brooding and provocative, Dark Horse Comics was redefining the dichotomy with the character known as Hellboy. The wisecracking demon was...
Culture of Pop
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 11 - Katt Williams
Image courtesy of the "Katt Williams on Evolution and Atheists" video posted on YouTube. 11. Katt Williams If you ask any stand-up comedian from the most well known to those just getting their starts at...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 17 - The Incredible Hulk
The lost film in the MCU, The Incredible Hulk deserves a hindsight spotlight for how ahead of its time it was and how it is still impacting some of our favorite superhero adaptations today. Anchored...
Culture of Pop
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 12 - Bo Burnham
Image courtesy of the "Bo Burnham's Sad from what" video posted on YouTube. 12. Bo Burnham He will offend relativists because he has a strong point of view and he will offend those who prefer...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 18 - X-Men: First Class
I didn’t hate X-Men: The Last Stand nearly as much as the rest of the world, but it still left the franchise in desperate need of some kind of reboot. When it was announced Bryan...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 19 - Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
I wish I could in good conscience put Spider-Man 2 higher on this list. It’s a wonderful film in many ways and the wall-crawler has always been one of my favorite superheroes. If pushed, I...
Podcasts
The Cross/Over With DC & Ryan: The NFL Playoffs, Comic Book Adaptations, Hollywood, Taylor Swift, & Katy Perry
On Episode 15 of The Cross/Over, DC and Ryan talk about the NFL’s violent playoffs, 2016 as #YearoftheNerd, Marvel and DC Comic adaptations, the collapse of the FPS genre while video games overtake Hollywood, and...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 20 - Thor
In order to put together a list on 35 of the best live-action comic book and graphic novel adaptations of all time, one must be predisposed toward accepting some silly things, but I must admit...
Comic Books
Top Comic Book Adaptations: No. 21 - Ant-Man
The neverending debate, Marvel versus DC, seems to always be boiled down in its simplest form to an argument of light-hearted fun versus dark and brooding gloom. Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man was a huge chip in...
