Day: April 29, 2011

Somewhere, Obama is Breathing a Sigh of Relief

Posted By: Kathleen DavidPosted On:

Because now the news media gets to obsess over an even MORE pointless citizenship story than his place of birth.

In Superman #900, in a back-up story, Superman renounces his American citizenship.

And news media from coast to coast went completely bat guano.

Why do I have a feeling that, when President Obama said the news media needed to focus on important matters rather than silliness, the media going nuts over the decisions of a fictional character in a nine page backup story wasn’t what he had in mind?

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UPDATED April 30th, 8:44 AM:
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I want to make it clear that when I’m talking about overreaction or matters of more importance, I’m not taking issue with the fan reaction. In fact, most of the fan reaction I’ve seen has been in response not to the story, but to the media’s coverage of the story.
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Fans will spend days, even weeks dissecting the latest developments, and that’s SOP. But you don’t see Fox, CNN, Entertainment Weekly and the Associated Press weighing in on whether Utopia is a good idea or is Cyclops just being a paranoid dìçk.
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Furthermore, some members of the media are using it as an excuse to tee off on Obama, liberals, and even comics fans themselves. Witness Cal Thomas of the ever reliable Fox News who declared, “Construed? Would comic book readers have heard of such a word? This storyline sounds as if it was written by an acolyte of the Obama administration.” I don’t which is more appalling. The notion that comics fans, some of the most literate people around, are challenged by any words that are polysyllabic. Or the implication that fans of the Obama administration being intelligent is somehow a bad thing, presumably because presidents and their supporters should always be monosyllabic.
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Hey. Cal Thomas. On behalf of comics fans everywhere: Go defenestrate yourself.

A Mash-Up I’d Love to See

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

I’m no good at putting these kinds of things together. So I toss the idea out there, in case no one has done it already: Intercut the little girl and reaction shots from “Adventures in Babysitting” with footage from the trailer for “Thor.”

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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

As a final reminder, tonight is my next episode of “Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.” Airing at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Cartoon Network, it’s entitled, “Prisoner 775 is Missing.” I should mention that the basic concept for the story was something that the late, great Dwayne McDuffie came up with. He wanted to use science fiction for its classic purpose: As a metaphor to comment on social issues. After it airs, I’ll be putting up specifics of how the episode came about.

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