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Thoughts on Labor Day

braak It’s not real hard to figure out why the labor movement in the US is probably doomed in perpetuity.  It’s built right into the way we think about labor.  Watch, we’ll do a thought experiment. So, the way that the Free Market is supposed to work is that different economic actors want different things […]

Cloning John Lennon: The Case Against

This particular tooth, upon which mad science is about to be zapped, is a rotten molar Lennon lost in the early 60’s and gave to his housekeeper (y’know, like you do), who gave it to her son and yada yada yada now a Canadian cloning enthusiast has it.

I Play Video Games Sometimes – Thoughts on Deadpool, Tomb Raider and Assassin’s Creed 3

Holland Deadpool I managed to bang through Deadpool in a week. Not even a week of furious game-playing. Just an hour or two a night. Yes, it was on Easy, but then I wasn’t looking for a challenge, just some fun. It’s what I like about Activision’s Marvel games – they’re pretty straight-forward. You play […]

Dramaturgery: Wolverine 3: Madripoor Drift

braak The Wolverine was pretty okay, but I think we can all agree that there was room for improvement, and I think we all know what that improvement is. To that effect, I am going to write a treatment for the third installment of the Wolverine series. I am actually torn between this title and […]

Harry Potter and the Endless Domestic Drama

Harry Potter just turned thirty-three.  Threat Quality Press has received THIS exclusive outline for the next seven books of his adventures.   Harry Potter and the Glengarry Plot Some years after the Battle of Hogwarts.  Ginny has left the Hollyrood Harpies to care for her family.  Harry is taking a creative writing class at the […]

Chris versus the Movies: The Wolverine

braak Here’s the thing.  I actually don’t know if I’m in the tank for Wolverine or not.  As I have written, Wolverine is one of my favorite characters.  But am I the kind of fan who is going to like his favorite character no matter what, or the kind of fan who is never going […]

Comics Primer: Wolverine

Holland Here’s the thing about Wolverine: It’s actually pretty hard to do an outright BAD story with him, because as a character, he is remarkably easy to get a handle on. A lot of writers get these weird anxiety attacks over how “hard” it is to write Superman, which is basically how things like Man […]

Saving Hollywood Movies with Moon Knight

The tale of a terrifying badass putting on disguises to get what he wants, from people who deserve to have it taken from them.

Dramaturgery: Wonder Woman

braak You know, it’s more than a little bonkers that we’re going to see Rocket Raccoon and Groot the Sentient Tree in the movies before we see Wonder Woman, that we got two Tomb Raider movies and an adaptation of a board game, they’re going to do Batman vs. Superman and probably the Flash, a […]

Dramaturgery: Man of Steel 2: 2 Man, 2 Steelious

For Dramaturgery this time, I’m going to forgo dramaturgering Man of Steel, since plenty, PLENTY of people have already worked on it, and Holland has already stolen my gimmick title.  INSTEAD, I am going to use my INVINCIBLE ATOMIC INTELLECT to put together a treatment for the sequel to Man of Steel (Man of Steel […]