Originally published August 1, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1237
Vic Chalker: Hello, this is Vic Chalker, on special assignment to But I Digress, and I’m here with Ruth Beder-Batten, the President for the Coalition of Moral Animated Responsibility. Welcome to the column, Ruth.
Ruth Beder-Batten: Happy to be here, Vic.
Kath and Caroline will be in Italy vacationing with Kath’s folks until Sunday. So basically here’s my line-up for things to do today: The Mets vs. the Phillies. Then at 5 PM they’re running “1776” on TCM. Then there’s the Capital 4th celebration on PBS. All that time I’ll also be writing. So my day will be productive, entertaining and also sadly quiet.
Happy 4th to everyone else, and nobody blow off any parts of their bodies with firecrackers.
PAD
The short version was that I had a great time at the film. Then again, it’s hard NOT to at a Marvel screening. More detailed, spoiler free comments following:
Continue Reading “More detailed comments on “Amazing Spider-Man””
Originally published July 25, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1236
One of the interesting thing about computer boards is that entertaining stuff can be sent along with greater facility than ever. So I thought I’d pass some of it along to you. For starters, there’s a charming Gilbert & Sullivan spoof sent along to me by long-time net buddy Tom Galloway, and reprinted with permission of the original author, Kevin Wald. It’s entitled:
Heroine Barbarian
When the SCOTUS decision came down, Kath and I were in a car somewhere in Pennsylvania en route to New York. Radio reception was for crap since we were in the mountains. So Kath, using her iPad, went to the website of the New York Times. Here is, from rough memory, what the paper of record had up a couple minutes after ten o’clock:
The Supreme Court has released its decision on health care. We are reading the decision and will provide a detailed report once we are confident in the accuracy of our analysis.
Meanwhile at that exact moment, both CNN and Fox were busy providing reportage about the decision that was 180 degrees wrong.
All reporters love scoops as much as anyone else, but I think television is more interested in getting news first while newspapers–at least the good ones–are more interested in getting news right.
PAD
Originally published July 18, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1235
Let us now praise famous butlers…
Just as “But the dinosaurs were great” became my personal mantra for slogging through The Lost World, I very quickly found that a new mantra helped to stabilize me and anchor me through the assault on both my visual senses and reasoning faculties called Batman and Robin, as follows:
Thank God for Michael Gough.
This is the cover to “Run, Layla, Run.” In this issue, Layla has 23 minutes to get across, on foot, a gridlocked, blacked out NYC, so she can save a teenaged girl’s life. I just LOVE this cover and am sharing it with you.
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