Author Archives: Mac McEntire

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Fantastic Friday: The retcon of Doom

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Writer Matt Fraction continues his time travel epic by revisiting the characters’ own origins in vol 4, issue #9. What is Dr. Doom’s real origin story? Gimmie a gimmick: Where deep in … Continue reading

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Forgotten TV shows I still like – Push Nevada 2002

Forgotten TV shows I still like. With an intriguing mystery, a celebrity producer, and a million bucks on the line, Push Nevada came out swinging in 2002, only to get cancelled before it even got going. Jim Prufrock (Derek Cecil) … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Pool-ius Caesar

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Writer Matt Fraction keeps connecting the dots between the two dual comics he’s writing, as a familiar face from Fantastic Four vol. 4 #6 returns in FF vol. 2 #9. Recap: The … Continue reading

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Forgotten TV shows I still like – Mighty Orbots 1984

Forgotten TV shows I still like. Time to blast off into space and get robotic with… Mighty Orbots! It’s the distant future. Mankind has spread across the stars as part of the United Planets, living peacefully with aliens and robots. … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: There goes the neighborhood

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Writer Matt Fraction’s multi-part sci-fi epic across the multiverse goes back to Earth in vol. 4 issue #8, but not in a way you’d expect. The FF are in the midst of … Continue reading

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Forgotten TV shows I still like – Big Wave Dave’s 1993

Forgotten TV shows I still like. Let’s hit the beach and get our surf on with 1993’s Big Wave Dave’s. It’s winter in New York City. Lawyer Marshall (Adam Arkin) has just been laid off from his firm. His childhood … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Hair smash

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Matt Fraction’s dual-series epic continues on, with a brawl between two heroes that you could’ve sworn were friends. Recap: When the Fantastic Four seemingly vanished during their expedition through space and time, … Continue reading

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Forgotten TV shows I still like – Pandamonium 1982

Forgotten TV shows I still like. Except sometimes shows are forgotten for a reason, and they do not live up to your memories. And by “sometimes” I mean 1982’s Pandamonium. Discussion of the show has to begin with the opening … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Crunch time

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. The previous issue took us back to the big bang. This issue, vol. 4 #7, takes us all the way in the other direction, to the end of time. That’s quite the … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Get Bentley

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’ve spent a lot of time with the genius kids from the Future Foundation, but now it’s time for their first big superhero slugfest in FF vol. 2 #7. While the Fantastic … Continue reading

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