Monthly Archives: August 2014

Fantastic Friday: Evil twins, yet again

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rereading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Need a quick and easy story idea to crank out a comic on deadline? Evil twins! Issue #96 begins with some comedy shtick as the Yancy Street Gang has mailed Ben a … Continue reading →

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21 Jump Street rewatch: “Loc’d Out, Part 1”

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching 21 Jump Street. Season three was when the show went big. It was the height of its popularity, it had ambitious storylines and feature-worthy production value. It’s fitting, then, that the season finale cliffhanger is a two-part epic. The … Continue reading →

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James Bond rewatch: A View to a Kill

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the James Bond films chronologically. Of all the movies made in 1985, not many scream “1985” more than A View to a Kill. Blond blurb: Bond is investigating a new type of microchip, one that can survive an electromagnetic … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: The Monocle? Seriously?

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rereading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. The so-called “middle years” are famous (infamous?) for introducing a bunch of hokey, one-off villains, and that’s the case with issue #95. We begin with a man on the street taking photos … Continue reading →

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21 Jump Street rewatch: “Next Victim”

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching 21 Jump Street. It’s another Booker-centric tale, one that attempts to solve all of society’s ills at once. It’s season three, episode eighteen, “Next Victim.”  What’s goin’ down: An obnoxious college radio DJ, known for making outrageous and inflammatory … Continue reading →

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James Bond rewatch: Never Say Never Again

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the James Bond films chronologically. It’s still 1983, with the second of two Bond movies in theaters that year. Never Say Never Again, although not part of the “official” Bond series, nonetheless brings back Sean Connery as 007. The … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Season of the witch

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Mac McEntire

 Rereading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Generally speaking, fans divide the first 300 or so issues of FF into three eras, the Lee/Kirby years, the “middle years,” and the John Byrne years. Although Kirby is still with the … Continue reading →

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21 Jump Street rewatch: “Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light”

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching 21 Jump Street. The show’s creators are back to pushing the envelope and going to extremes in season three, episode seventeen, “Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light.” What’s goin’ down: Homeless male teen prostitutes are being savagely beaten … Continue reading →

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James Bond rewatch: Octopussy

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the James Bond films chronologically. Just like 1967 gave us two Bond movies, an unofficial one with Casino Royale and official one with You Only Live Twice, the same thing happened in 1983, with two Bonds in one year. … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: In the arena

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Here’s issue #93, which came out in December 1969. It’s the end of the 1960s, and it’s the unofficial end of Jack Kirby’s time on the FF. Sure, he’ll be around for … Continue reading →

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