I’m reasonably sure that I remember them going into the All-Star break on a high note in previous seasons.
And then invariably they come out of the break and promptly go into a massive losing streak. They were moving up and then they lose thirteen out of fifteen games.
So it’s kind of hard for me to feel good about their current winning ways.
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Originally published February 2, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1420
Once upon a time in comics, it was simple: No one really gave a dámņ about what other people were doing.
So when a new origin for a character cropped up, it needed no reason other than that a writer or editor (or both) had come up with what they thought was an interesting twist on the hero’s origin. Or perhaps it was nothing more complicated than that they had a ten-page space to fill that month and they were fresh out of ideas for new stories, so they decided to recycle the hero’s birth one more time.
Originally published January 26, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1419
They almost had me. They almost had me totally sold on DVDs.
Several years ago, I complained quite bitterly, in this very column, about the new format which was rendering my beloved laser disks obsolete. This upstart, this annoyance. Sure, my lasers were taking up a ton of room, but the picture quality was great, you could jump around for specific chapters instead of trying to fast forward with video tapes. And then these… these little frickin’ coasters called DVDs come along, with patchy transfers and totally different players, threatening to push out my movie format of choice.
Originally published January 19, 2001, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1418
How the Grynch Stole Fandom
By Doctor Spoofs
All the fans who were fannish liked Fandom a lot,
But the Grynch who lived up in Dotcom
Did not.
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