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Fantastic Friday: Oops all villains

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Time to start breezing through the rest of Jonathan Hickman’s run multiple issues at a time, with FF #8-11. Fantastic Four’s “lost years” in the 1970s is where things got all confusing … Continue reading →

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Star Trek movie rewatch – The Voyage Home 1986

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the Star Trek movies! After the life and death seriousness of the previous movie, it’s time for the franchise to let its hair down and have some fun in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Here’s what happens: Kirk … Continue reading →

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Star Trek movie rewatch – The Search for Spock 1984

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the Star Trek movies! While Spock’s death in the previous film is moving, everyone doubted he was really dead. Hence 1984’s The Search for Spock.   Here’s what happens: The Enterprise returns to a Federation space station following the … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Kree will rock you

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Here’s FF #7, the second half of an extended flashback that… Oh, I just can’t.   Recap: Two issues ago, the conflict between four recently-discovered lost civilizations was complicated by four evil … Continue reading →

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Star Trek movie rewatch – The Wrath of Khan 1982

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the Star Trek movies! Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) is considered one of the high marks – if not the high mark – of the entire franchise. But what does it say about our characters? Here’s … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: King me

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Is Black Bolt your favorite Marvel character? He’d better be, because FF #5 all about him. Recap: Four evil alternate universe versions of Reed, of the interdimensional Council of Reeds, are running … Continue reading →

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Star Trek movie rewatch – The Motion Picture 1979

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the Star Trek movies! What’s the point of blogging about Trek when every bit of trivia minutiae has already been explored at length? I’m rewatching these in terms of characters, and hopefully sorting out the characters’ arcs over the … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – The perils of Paulina

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Make that Re-re-reading it.   After finishing the final scene for my last post, I felt frustrated in that it felt like Paulina had become the main character all of a sudden, and I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: The real Defying Gravity

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #5, writer Jonathan Hickman continues tying things together and connecting all the dots with everything he’s set up. Recap: The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with around twenty … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Dr. StrangeReed

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #4, we have a meeting of the minds and a city under attack. Where were we? The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with close to twenty members, most … Continue reading →

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