Commentary

This is where I keep all the past columns, essays, and musings, I've written. Take a peek and enjoy what's in store here.

April 24, 2024 TV's Law & Order is a long-running problem

June 27, 2023 The Kind of Meals that Could've been Seen in Comics, but Likely Weren't

April 5, 2022 20 Years for this Site

January 27, 2022 Scorpions in Sheep's Clothing Take the Moral High Ground

July 21, 2021 The 1st Daredevil series is decidedly the last good one

June 7, 2021 Where the Ruin of Green Lantern began at the dawn of the 1990s

March 26, 2020 A bad omen was finally rid of in the comics medium

February 7, 2019 What will become of Marvel now that Stan the Man Lee is gone?

February 8, 2018 When the panels are tainted by real life evil

February 23, 2017 A Big TV Accomplishment

July 29, 2016 Superhero games based on the wrong source material

October 2, 2015 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part eight

October 2, 2015 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part nine

October 2, 2015 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part ten

October 2, 2015 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part eleven

July 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part four

July 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part five

July 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part six

July 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part seven

March 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part one

March 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part two

March 10, 2014 A look back at some personal experiences and memories, part three

May 26, 2013 The 11th Anniversary of this Site

September 7, 2012 The Marvel vs. Capcom games didn't accomplish much

June 29, 2012 After several years, I find Greg Rucka's take on WW overrated

September 17, 2011 Green Lantern movie's failure can serve some good purposes

April 22, 2011 Sometimes whites are the biggest victims today

August 2, 2010 How inconsistency in writing, art, and a movie obscured a potentially good item

July 18, 2010 How Geoff Johns is ruining DC Comics

February 1, 2010 Did a short-lived TV program ruin a great comic?

December 9, 2009 He-Man and the Masters of the Big Ripoff

September 24, 2009 Did Ironside inspire Oracle?

July 20, 2009 A trio of Poems

June 10, 2009 Why would an anti-war leftist want to read comics about patriotism and selflessness?

January 18, 2009 Recipe for Honeyed Nahit

November 21, 2008 An avalanche of Anime

September 29, 2008 If only I'd known: the downside of "Zadzooks"

April 12, 2008 Cream puffs recipe

February 9, 2008 Two changes of opinion

November 22, 2007 Why I will no longer oppose Gambit of the X-Men

August 21, 2007 Bagels and a Thought

March 10, 2007 Squandered Development Potential

December 21, 2006 Yummy Roast With Herbs

November 24, 2006 It wasn't for nothing...

July 27, 2006 Madeira-Mornay

February 12, 2006 Welcome Home, Lion of Judah

August 8, 2005 Why Resurrection is a Wonderful Idea

July 21, 2005 Yearning for the Baxter Days

July 18, 2005 Stacy and Scarlet Shamed

July 14, 2005 For Healthy Loaves of Bread, Here's the Perfect Recipe

July 7, 2005 Destroying the Atom, Shredding the Elongated Man

July 3, 2005 Recipe for Quiche-Rochefort

July 1, 2005 Inside the Mind of a Chomskyite

June 8, 2005 "Zadzooks!" Scores a Big Win over "Dear Captain"

May 14, 2005 Great Golems of the Comics

May 9, 2005 Fans cannot emote?

May 9, 2005 The pointless discrimination against comics fans' freedom of speech

March 26, 2005 Hamentashens Recipe for Purim

March 24, 2005 Duck A L'Orange Recipe

March 17, 2005 Media Double Standards on Comics Coverage

March 13, 2005 Why I can no longer be a fan of Paul Jenkins

March 12, 2005 French Potato Salad Recipe

March 7, 2005 Does persona power the person in the pamphlet?

March 4, 2005 Steven Spielberg: Coward or Wimp?

March 3, 2005 Whatever happened to the Real Pros?

March 2, 2005 The Partnership that Could've Been Longer

March 1, 2005 Favoratism for one, Abandonment of the other

February 23, 2005 The Man Who Would Know All

February 22, 2005 Why Destroy a Universe? Part Three

February 12, 2005 Why Destroy a Universe? Part Two

February 12, 2005 Why I won't be looking forward to J. Michael Straczynski on the Fantastic Four

February 11, 2005 Why Destroy a Universe? Part One

January 20, 2005 Seven old questions I once asked Peter David

January 12, 2005 The Worst and the Best of 2004

December 5, 2004 Special: Justice History of America

November 3, 2004 Greg Land and other amazing similarities in character and facial expressions

October 21, 2004 Misunderstanding the Concept and Characters

October 16, 2004 The 4th Tel Aviv Comics and Sci-Fi Convention

September 7, 2004 Great Eggplant Cubes

August 27, 2004 The Betrayal of an Icon and Other Cases of Volte-Face

August 10, 2004 The Best Times when I've Eaten a Meal

July 4, 2004 Living in Zion

June 27, 2004 When Superheroes aren't looking for trouble, trouble is looking for them!

May 31, 2004 Showcases for just one writer: Good or bad idea?

May 19, 2004 Retrospective Article: Avengers Anniversary Assemble!

May 19, 2004 Retrospective Article: Uncool Covers

May 10, 2004 What's to Come on this Dear Site

March 27, 2004 The Worst and the Best of 2003

March 22, 2004 The Experimental Upcoming Comics Commentary Schedule File

March 11, 2004 Bethany Snow represents what many TV-based media sources are like

January 18, 2004 The Secret of the Speedster's success

December 9, 2003 Blintzes and their Fillings

October 17, 2003 The 3rd Comics Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque

September 26, 2003 Fish Balls 'n Egg Rolls

August 25, 2003 Chile con Carne

July 31, 2003 Chicken Cantonese

June 10, 2003 Recipe for a Great Cake for the Summertime

May 2, 2003 Well, it was a great Passover allright

April 20, 2003 Why Take Credit When it isn't Neccasary?

March 21, 2003 Remembering the Columbia

February 6, 2003 Messengers Everywhere

January 11, 2003 The Villain's Safe Haven and its Real Life Equivalencies

December 19, 2002 The Worst and the Best of 2002

November 10, 2002 The Wrong way to go about doing promos

October 7, 2002 Roller Coaster Crossfire

September 28, 2002 Ben Grimm, we hardly knew ye

September 9, 2002 The 2nd Tel Aviv Comics Exhibition

August 22, 2002 The Big Movie HoaX

July 28, 2002 Spider-Man Swings Onto the Big Screen

July 16, 2002 But Isn't the Marvel Universe a Fictional One?

June 24, 2002 The Last Lighter Side of...Dave Berg

May 29, 2002 Jewish Resemblances that Comic Book Characters have

May 10, 2002 Grant Morrison's flawed vision of the X-Men as "pacifists"

April 17, 2002 J. Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle Reflect many Media Outlets in the World

March 19, 2002 Kids need Encouragement

March 11, 2002 The Worst and the Best of 2001

March 3, 2002 Long live the great John Buscema

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