I was dreading Glen Weldon’s new book, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Not because Weldon’s a bad writer. He’s not; he’s outstandingly good. A movie, book and comic book critic…
America loves conspiracy theories. “Freaking out over imagineered shadowy plots,” wrote James Poulos for The Week last spring, “is one of our most durably American habits.” In his self-described “weird Western” novel The Man Who…
When I brought Ryan Britt’s new book home from our local library, my 8-year-old daughter—who came to Star Wars last year by way of Rebels and now proudly proclaims herself “a bigger Star Wars geek than…
With Lent’s penance now just hours away, confession is in order. Here’s a mea culpa from me: When I was still preaching weekly, I sometimes relied too heavily on preachers’ magazines. I never lifted another…
In 1978, as Star Wars reached its first birthday, I was in first grade. One of my few clear memories from that school year is sitting at a lunch table, happily reading the paperback novelization of…
If you’ve ever listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, then you already know this fictional (one can only hope) little town that bakes under a desert sun (one presumes it is our sun,…
In his introduction, Caseen Gaines sets the bar high for We Don’t Need Roads: You may not believe Back to the Future is the most important film trilogy of all time, but after reading this…
At the risk of my geek cred losing some hit points, I confess I still haven’t read Ernest Cline’s acclaimed debut novel, Ready Player One (which, like another book on my must-read-ASAP list, is coming…
We spend much money, effort, and time in our culture candy-coating the Christmas season with superficially “pretty” things. Colored tree lights, shiny wrapping paper, glitter-covered snowflakes—I think we hope these trappings will distract us from…
The murdering lasts a full year in The Long Halloween. In this classic Batman story, spanning 13 issues, a villain known as the Holiday Killer executes someone once a month, and always on a holiday….
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