Posts Tagged ‘DC Comics’

A Case For Step-Dads!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The smell of stale gym socks infused my nostrils with testoterone and bravado. I had just finished swimming at the rec center and was changing into my dry clothes when a young muscular man struck up a conversation with me.

“Hey how’s it goin’?” he asked.

“Good, you?” I answered. All the fears of high school locker rooms flooded irrationally back. Does this guy want to kick my ass? Why is he talking to me?

“Great!” he answered. “So do you have kids in here?”

Batman Returns to Camp With ‘Brave and the Bold’

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I just caught an episode of ‘Batman: The Brave and the Bold‘. I am a lifetime Batman fan, and have watched him evolve for what seems my entire life. After Frank Miller‘s ‘Dark Knight Returns‘, Tim Burton‘s Batman films, Batman: The Animated Series, and the current bat-film franchise, I thought that we had moved past the Adam West era of campy Batman. Turns out Warner Bros. animation wanted to give it another try with ‘Batman: The Brave and the Bold’.