2016 Election… No More Gritty Reboots: Why Lego Batman and Legion Are the Future of Superheroes 12 Feb 201731 May 2017 Yes, this blog is dedicated to "an ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot." But, as written about in the previous post on this blog, The World Needs Bad…
2016… The World Needs Bad Men: Bush, Trump, and the Anti-Hero 22 Jan 20174 Oct 2022 How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense…
2016… The True Theme of 2016: Never Meet Your Heroes 28 Dec 201611 Apr 2019 Hating 2016 and wishing for it to end has perhaps been the meme of 2016. It has been called a dumpster fire and was declared to "even sucked for Kim Kardashian." Beginning…
2016 Election… Let Them Eat Freedom Fries, and Ten Other Headlines to Anticipate in 2017 3 Dec 20163 Dec 2016 It's early December, which means two things: time to start recapping 2016 and predicting 2017. While not as exhaustive as The Economist's The World in 2017 or as doomsday-esque as…
2016 Election… What Would Kurt Vonnegut Say About the 2016 Election? 29 Sep 20161 Oct 2016 Or, When Did We Start Living in a Fictional Satire? I've compared recent events—and, in particular, this presidential election—to many things: Armageddon, Alien, every Batman story, and almost every '90s action movie.…
2016 Election… Some Thoughts and Observations That Won’t Appear in My Next Blog Post 8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016 Sometimes, I don't want to dedicate a full blog post to an idea, but I still want to share the idea. Is 2016 the Year of the Feral Child? First, a fun…
2016 Election… Who Would Donald Appoint? Some Predictions for Trump’s Cabinet 19 May 201621 Oct 2016 Interested in reading D. F. Lovett's fiction? Buy his books here. Donald Trump made waves this week by releasing his list of SCOTUS picks. He must've had some help from…
2016 Election… How the Republican Establishment Has Become South Park’s Stan Marsh 10 May 20167 Jul 2016 Jeb(!) Bush recently made headlines by declaring he would not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, proclaiming "I cannot support his candidacy." With this announcement, he has fallen…
2016 Election… Which Batman Character Does Trump Resemble Most? Part 6: The Conclusion 24 Mar 201624 Mar 2016 For the past several weeks, this blog has investigated which Batman character has the most in common with presidential candidate Donald Trump. We have considered five Batman villains thus far:…
2016 Election… Is Bane the Batman Character Who Trump Resembles Most? 23 Mar 201621 Jan 2017 "Do you feel in charge?" It is with these words that the power shifts from one man to another in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, as the terrorist…