Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Whew! Look at that title! A mouthful of self-evident tautological emptiness. Still, let’s not let that get us down, huh kids? What we have here is Infinite Crisis. It’s the sequel to Crisis On Infinite Earths and the prequel to Final Crisis, both of which I’ve reviewed on this site before and, hence, it makes [...]

Table of Contents

#24 – Executive Action
#25 – Scorched Earth
#26 – Our Army At War
#27 – The Bigger They Come
#28 – Crisis Times Five, Part One
#29 – Crisis Times Five, Part Two, World Turned Upside Down
#30 – Crisis Times Five, Part Three, Worlds Beyond
#31 – Crisis Times Five, Part Four, Gods And Monsters
#32 – Inside Job, [...]

AKA

Dr Charlie Salinger
Matthew Fox
Doc Do-It-All

Strengths

Natural born leader
Doctor
Nice guy

Weaknesses

Serious father issues
Way too damn nice

Highlights

Helping Sayid torture Sawyer
Growing a kickass beard

Other Facts

Has a dead (?) father who used to operate on people while drunk
Has a half-sister fathered by that same drunken dead father – Claire
Would like to bone Kate, but is still way too damn nice
Can cure [...]

Geoff Klock (www.geoffklock.com) knows more about the evolution of superhero comic books than anyone else in the room. This is true regardless of whether the room contains just one other person or more comic book geeks than you can poke a cosmic power rod at.

For his book, How To Read Superhero Comics And Why, Geoff [...]

‘Twas the night before Star Wars, and geeks queued round the world
Counting the hours ’til the new flick was unfurled
The TIE fighters were hung atop the cinema with care
In hopes that Lord Vader soon would be there

The action figures were nestled home snug in their ship
With light sabre clutched tight in Skywalker’s grip
The Yoda masks [...]

Cast Away is the thought-provoking movie about a volleyball trapped upon a deserted island with only a washed up Tom Hanks and his beard for company. (Tom Hanks’ beard that is, not the volleyball’s beard. The volleyball has no beard. (And yes I’m fully aware that making fun of the volleyball has been an easy [...]