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Wolverine Flick Falls Flat
The writers hired to script the X-Men movies truly are an amazing group of folks. They have somehow found a formula for producing scripts with less plot in each successive movie. X-Men Origins:...
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Confession: I Don’t Like Live-Action Superhero Movies
Uncanny X-Men #137, the original end to the Dark Phoenix Saga, far superior to the move version. Whenever there’s a new superhero film coming out, my friends who know my interest in superhero comics...
View ArticleThe Cooper-Xavier Fallacy: “The Big Bang Theory” Sacrifices Accuracy for Humor
Pretty much all of us at GeekDad love “The Big Bang Theory.” It’s possibly the first show that has ever successfully managed to make fun of and celebrate geeks at the same time. Plus, they have an evil...
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Wolverine and The X-Men is Good Despite the Title Character
I don’t like Wolverine. Fortunately for this show, my kids don’t feel the same way. I’ve been reading X-Men comics since the original Uncanny X-Men #115. That means I like Logan fine as a foil for the...
View ArticleWolverine’s Claws — In My Heart
This week I watched the first X-Men movie with my son. My husband declined, saying he hadn’t been that impressed with the plot when we saw it in the theater. He was right. The movie is more about...
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The X-Men Family Tree Explains So Much
When it comes down to it, comics are just soap operas with bigger effect budgets. But in the end, it’s the relationships that matter. Which is why Joe Stone’s graphical illustration of how the...
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Happy Birthday, Sir Ian McKellen!
There aren’t many people celebrating their 72nd birthday today who can say they’re playing a major character in a surefire blockbuster. I dare say there’s only one who can say he’s doing so in two...
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X Things Parents Should Know About X-Men: First Class
It’s 95 degrees in my city today, school’s out and it’s Friday, which can only mean one thing: the time for summer blockbusters is most definitely here — and today’s release of X-Men: First Class sets...
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Checking Back in With the X-Men After All These Years
It’s been almost a decade since I was a regular X-Men reader. I was completely and utterly hooked on the original title, Uncanny X-Men, but around the time the title split into X-Force, Generation X,...
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Happy 70th Birthday to Harrison Ford, and Happy 72nd to Patrick Stewart!
Please join all of us at GeekDad in wishing Harrison Ford and Sir Patrick Stewart a very happy birthday, and many more to come!
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8 Things to Look Forward to in 2013
As the new year gets underway, we all begin to look expectantly toward those things we know will happen in the near future. I've compiled a short list of some highlights for this year: Snake Plisskin...
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