THE MARVEL MOVIE UNIVERSE

by Xaviar XerexesMarch 7, 2018March 8, 2020

Marvel movies and teevee series have become enormous in their scope raising all kinds of questions of how they all fit into a shared universe and more importantly, what order to watch everything in. Luckily others have done all of that work already — CNET, Collider, and Fandom Marvel Wiki all have put together comprehensive lists of the movies, shows and shorts in chronological order. To begin with, the first Captain America: The First Avenger and the two seasons of Agent Carter are clearly set in World War II and thereafter — a bit disconnected from the other movies and teevee shows which …

Favorites, Bookmarks and Years-in-Review

Every year I look around for supercuts, mashups and other lists of the best movies, music and games of that year.

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From time to time I look back on a specific year or category and try really, really hard to decide what my favorites are/were/will be.

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Mostly for myself, but maybe interesting to you, I often try to create a bookmark page for myself to keep track of the works in a series or works by an author/auteur.

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Dave Kellett is a National Treasure

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 19, 2016

Every now and then Dave Kellett hits a grand slam (baseball or Denny’s – it’s all good) — today is one of those days.

Reading Comics! Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba

by Xaviar XerexesFebruary 14, 2016

Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, is dang good. Just missed this when it came out but glad I grabbed a copy of the collected series. The structure of it is really interesting – -I guess the structure of the story is a bit of a spoiler? but it’s been out since 2011 so I’m not sure it’s a big deal. Every chapter the main dies but then it’s a meditation on life and death and so this is not so much a gimmick as a way to provoke thinking about the chapter you’ve just read. What’s important in life? …

The Man in the High Castle

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 22, 2016

The novel The Man in the High Castle is my favorite novel by Philip K. Dick. (Granted I haven’t read all of them yet so that could change.) I was interested when Amazon did a pilot for a teevee show based on the novel. Mostly I thought it was an interesting adaption. It did a lot of work to recreate the alternate universe. I was a little less excited about the change from a book to a film for the central plot device. (A macguffin or a metaguffin perhaps but important to the story). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I?rel=0&controls=0] I haven’t had a …

I Like the new DC United Logo

by Xaviar XerexesDecember 18, 2015

I was happily surprised when the new logo for the hometown futbol club came out. The new logo is a nice modernization of the existing logo that ties in the District of Columbia flag. I like the wings pushing out past the outline of the shield. It’s a nice way to play with the traditional shape of a soccer club crest.

Women’s League Soccer

by Xaviar XerexesOctober 3, 2015

We’ve had a decade and a half of professional women’s soccer in the U.S.which is often lost on people not paying attention. Yes there have been three leagues in succession – because the first two only last 3 seasons each – but taken in total there has been professional women’s soccer in the U.S. since the famous 1999 U.S. world cup victory. The first league, Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) launched a bit late – 2001 – to fully capitalize on the popularity of the U.S. women’s team victory but it did have most of that team plus a number …