Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The first issue of “Invincible Iron Man,” featuring Riri Williams, debuted Nov. 9 from Marvel Comics. (Marvel) On Wednesday, Riri Williams — a female, black Iron Man — finally debuted in her own Marvel Comics series, “Invincible Iron Man,” both in print and digitally. After the character was announced in July, it was clear the…
On Tuesday night I felt briefly the old urge to find a book to deal with hard times, and took The Berlin Stories off the shelf. As is so often the case lately, the tug of my phone was stronger, and I left the book sitting on the floor after leafing through its pages….
Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…
GIF It’s very short, and it doesn’t give us much, but it’s enough to have us squealing alongside Felicity in agreement: Best superhero team-up ever. The brief teaser doesn’t show much other than what appears to be Kara’s first introduction (beyond Barry, of course) to the wider world of the CW-verse, meeting Ollie and the…
Okay, so we only really have a few actual pictures from the upcoming mega crossover between Supergirl, Arrow, Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow—and everyone looks appropriately stern or heroic for a crossover about an evil alien invasion. But the pictures shot for Entertainment Weekly to go with it? So much joy. Okay, let’s…
GIF The fact that they basically happened one after the other in an episode that was already an absolute blast just cemented my thoughts that Legends has gotten so much more fun now that its eagerly accepted the goofiness of its premise. “The Justice Society of America” was just jam-packed with brilliant moments,…
Amy Schumer accepts the Critics’ Choice MVP award at the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Jan. 17. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Update: Schumer posted a note to Medium Thursday night saying the video was “never a parody.” “It was just us women celebrating each other,” she wrote. “The video Beyoncé made was so moving and I wouldn’t ever…
Romance is part of the essential fabric of the comic book movie. Where would Christopher Reeve’s Superman have been without Margot Kidder’s vivacious Lois Lane in the Richard Donner and Richard Lester films – the flawed, human counterweight to the tedious perfection of everyone’s favorite big blue alien boy scout? Would the early Sam Raimi…
Illustration: Jim Cooke ESPN is doing a very bad job of pretending it isn’t deathly afraid of rapidly declining subscriber numbers. At the end of October, Nielsen released its monthly television subscriber numbers report, and it showed a loss of 621,000 subscribers for ESPN and similar losses for ESPN2 and ESPNU. Other networks, like Spike…
This October, when Ido Alexander saw photos a young man had posted on social media, he thought he had hit the bankruptcy jackpot. Mr. Alexander, a Florida lawyer working for a court-appointed trustee, dispatched an appraiser to the man’s home to inspect the expensive-looking gold chains and other jewelry he had been posing in, which he hadn’t…