I was once a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory. It was funny. They made jokes that only geeks would get and it included cameos from Wil Wheaton (and other geeky celebrities). The first few seasons of this Bill ...
Read More »The Acquirers: Buried Stargate?
Buried Stargate? There has been a lot of plot exposition in the last few panels but rest assured we will be back to making dated pop culture references next week. As a side note we kinda like the Dusty Weasel ...
Read More »The Heat
These days it seems I’m always watching dark, serious films. Even the surperhero films have forgotten how to have fun. I readily admit to missing the camp, silly, ridiculous superheroes of the past. I did see The World’s End recently, ...
Read More »Why you should be excited for the Veronica Mars movie
There are two factors that feed into possible excitement for the new Veronica Mars movie, slated to hit cinemas in 2014. The first is that Veronica Mars, the television series, was absolutely brilliant (and if you haven’t made the time ...
Read More »The Acquirers: NDA on RDA
NDA on RDA The original script for this called for a dodgy looking bar patron. Ash somehow managed to interpret that as a cross between Aragorn and Noel Fielding. In either case I can only read the script in Noel’s voice. ...
Read More »Nostalgic Impulse: In defense of… Wesley Crusher
I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction thanks to geeky parents and a firm belief in family time (aka sharing our loves – which just happened to coincide). One show in particular that I loved was Star ...
Read More »The Acquirers: The Dusty Weasel
The Dusty Weasel So our heroes have retreated to their favorite watering hole The Dusty Weasel. We had a lot of fun with this strip, there are a lot of great bar/pub scenes that we wanted to include but we only ...
Read More »Interview with Theo Fearing: Must-hear new indie music
This week, Pop Verse interviewed 22-year-old independent singer-songwriter Theo Fearing. Theo released his new track ‘Boxes’ on July 22nd on the Australian Heads With Tales label. Based in London, Theo is originally from Perth, Western Australia. With musical influences ranging ...
Read More »Blacksad: Graphic novels are for adults
Occasionally I get in a jazz and blues mood. On Thursday I started listening to my collection of women singing the blues, and by Saturday I was deep into Louis Armstrong. So I suppose it was something akin to fate ...
Read More »The Acquirers: SuperBat
SuperBat I’m oddly intrigued about the Superman/Batman crossover that was revealed during SDCC. On the one hand it will be amazing to see two giants of the film/comic book world in the same film together (The franchises have made a ...
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