Miles Morales, the new Spider-Man, in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The late Stan Lee was fond of saying that Spider-Man resonated with wide swaths of humanity because anyone, regardless of color, could be under the mask. But there’s a more direct way of talking about race in the context of the character that is more compelling. A couple of years ago, I interviewed novelist Walter Mosley about comic books. At one point, the lifelong geek was talking about the early adventures of the first Spider-Man, Peter Parker, and he said something that’s rattled around in my head ever since, which I’ll quote in full: Read More...
From the start, you know the Tiny Toons Adventures Christmas special is as harmless as it is cute. They even reedited the opening to be Christmas-y!
As with a lot of Christmas specials, this parodies It’s A Wonderful Life. Maybe “parody” is too generous - it is It’s A Wonderful Life. There aren’t a lot of jokes on the classic movie, it’s just a vehicle to move along a story about Buster Bunny considering quitting his Christmas special. Read More...
Gridiron Football achieved two firsts in Arizona during the past weekend: first, a coaches conference and showcase only for females flag football; and second, a youth football competition for flag and 7v7 teams. Among the noteworthy figures that joined them were Trey McBride, starting tight end for the Arizona Cardinals, Lyndsey Fry, who won a…
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