Posts by Mike Gravagno
BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD
BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD Round 1, Battle 5 follow the bracket here! INHUMANS: ATTLIAN RISING #1 VS THE INFINITY GAUNTLET #1 One of the major dangers of a GIANT, EPIC, WORLD-ALTERING, CROSSOVER EVENT in the comic world is to lose the humanity amongst all of the SWEET EPIC SHIT. The small, simple moments that make fans fall in love…
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THE 2015 POPFILTER TV CHALLENGE: MARCH MADNESS Follow the tournament here! Round 3 THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT VS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH RYAN: With no one proving themselves trustworthy enough to select the two shows that will make it into the final round of the March Madness Television Tournament (patent not pending, if you…
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THE 2015 POPFILTER TV CHALLENGE: MARCH MADNESS Follow the tournament here! Round 1 ONE BIG HAPPY VS iZOMBIE On paper, the winner of this battle was obvious. Even if One Big Happy was an awful throwback sitcom, it had to be better than iZombie. Right? Produced by Ellen, created…
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THE 2015 POPFILTER TV CHALLENGE: MARCH MADNESS Follow the tournament here! Round 2 AMERICAN CRIME VS THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT I can’t believe Round 2 of the bracket is already here, and I can’t believe these two shows are pitted against each other. It seems like just yesterday that The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was cast…
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THE 2015 POPFILTER TV CHALLENGE: MARCH MADNESS CSI: CYBER VS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH Follow the tournament here! It can’t be a shock as to which of these two shows will be moving on. I could try and be coy about it throughout this article, trying to feed you a ‘fair and balanced until…
Read MoreI MISS MY MTV
I MISS MY MTV In which we pretend music videos never went out of style. “Style” is a classic MTV video for a a few reasons. Let’s talk order: TSwift has already released a couple of music videos from her last album, 1989, but they were mostly about having fun and saying fuck off to the…
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#1 Fan! In which Mike reviews the first issue of a new comic. This Week: Casanova: Acedia Casanova started in 2006 as an Image comics release by Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon before it moved to Marvel Icon in 2011. The book returned to its original home…
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Hi, I’m Mike TV BACKSTROM- **1/2 Asshole savant. That’s almost exactly what the Backstrom advertisements say. Look above. They want you to know the character Back Backstrom is exactly the stereotype you’re looking for. And boy howdy do they deliver on that promise. In the pilot episode we get to see Backstrom be rude and…
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#1 Fan! In which Mike reviews the first issue of a new comic. This Week: the unbeatable Squirrel Girl Just looking at the cover of the unbeatable Squirrel Girl you know you’re not going to be diving into a “normal†Marvel comic. It looks like the early 90s Disney TV shows (i.e. Tailspin/DarkWing Duck) by…
Read MoreTOP TEN-BLAST FROM THE PAST
THE POP FILTER TOP TEN FRANCHISES THAT IGNORED THEIR SOURCE MATERIAL BLAST FROM THE PAST 10. RESIDENT EVIL No puzzles, no suspense, all naked-superpowered Milla Jovovich. 9. GARFIELD None of the biting wit of the cartoon strip. 8. CAT IN THE HAT Dr. Seuss was never this terrifying. 7. THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Took…
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