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Welcome to Check It Out. Feel free to leave your shoes on, it’s cool.
So, there will be a lot of different stuff going on in this blog: All sorts of television – the great, the not-so-great and “Vinyl,” a show that should really be called The correct title. (Thank you to...
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Why the trailer for “Rogue One” makes it look even better than “The Force...
Oh, man. So, I liked “The Force Awakens.” Was it satisfying? Sure. Was it better than the prequels? Yes. Did it have its flaws? Yes. It was, as a friend once put it about a Liz Phair album,...
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How “Captain America” stripped this week’s internet outrage cycle clean away...
At the end of last week, Warner Bros./DC was collecting all of the ire mainstream comics fans could muster. By Wednesday morning, all anyone could talk about was Disney/Marvel. It went something like...
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Even if you hate the movie, read “Suicide Squad” (1987-1992)
There are few phrases sillier in the ever-more-shrill world of internet cultural complaints — I mean, criticism — than “So-and-so remake/reboot/update of beloved pop culture property has ruined my...
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This week: ‘American War,’ an X-Men relaunch, the music of Waylon Jennings...
“American War” by Omar El Akkad (Knopf). Terrifying, post-apocalyptic debut novel from this Egyptian-American author, perhaps a bit slipstreamish (think “Station Eleven,” maybe, “) on the sci-fi...
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Austin cartoonist Jen Sorensen named Pulitzer Prize finalist
Jen Sorensen Austin cartoonist Jen Sorensen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in editorial cartooning, it was announced Monday. I was so busy drawing Trump, I missed the announcement!...
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10 essential titles to pick up on Free Comic Book Day
Saturday, May 6, is Free Comic Book Day, coming as it does the first Saturday after the summer’s first big comic book movie, aka the first Saturday in May. (“Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2” is the...
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