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I mentioned it a few months ago, but there’s yet another Spider-Man cartoon hitting the airwaves. Despite the fact that the previous incarnation of a Spider-Man cartoon was just shy of perfect it got cancelled – perpetuating the myth (or curse) or Spider-Man shows never making it past two seasons. In fact, the original Spider-Man…

We’ve been waiting for it, people. We’ve been filling our days with Sons of Anarchy, or Castle, or The Walking Dead. We’ve been mildly sidetracked by movies and books like The Hunger Games and season or series premieres of new shows like Person of Interest, Alcatraz, The River and cartoons like Ultimate Spider-Man, Green Lantern and Young…

Properly executing a sequel or a spin-off to a beloved franchise has always been a difficult task. For every Stargate: Atlantis there are dozens of failed projects that make it a single season, or more often never get past the pilot pitch. The worst or craziest get tossed around by pop culture buffs as examples of terrible,…

Tower of Babel is up there as one of the coolest Batman stories put to paper. It’s one of those stories that bleed over enough into other kinds of media that everybody who knows anything about Batman and the Justice League knows that Batman has such a tactical mind that he has contingency plans for…

A series of unfortunate and ultimately painful events led me to a startling moment of clarity earlier this week. The village I live in has nothing in the way of jobs. It has been like that for a surprisingly long time — if you won’t work at the Tim Hortons (or in my case, can’t…

It has been said once or twice before in this column that I have a serious case of zombie fatigue. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it’s because of the massive influx of zombie related media that came out of nowhere in the last decade, but that’s only part of it. The other part which I…

Over the months I’ve been exposed to bits and pieces of the television show Archer, but what little I had seen didn’t seem appealing. When it comes to comedy of any kind I tend to have very specific tastes, and often don’t wind up liking what everybody else seems to like. This past week was…

My grandmother has been watching British television for as long as I can remember. Her show of choice is, and has always been Coronation Street. She knows the characters and even has a massive book detailing the history of the show; a show that has been running for over fifty years has quite a bit…

The formula itself for most television hasn’t changed all that much. It’s starting to, but it’s only creeping forward a small bit at a time.