What do Kid n’ Play and Eminem have in common? They’re all a part of my post on the six worst hip hop comic books of all time on MTV’s men’s blog Clutch. The Onyx comic, part of the Marvel music line that gave us this gem, is particularly terrible. 

Another New York Comic Con has come and gone. Check out my gallery of some of the best costumes at the con over on GuySpeak.com. You can also find it on the front page of WETV.com right under a Bridezilla contest.

Now that Spidey will be played by a jaunty scarf-wearing Brit, I offer some ideas for further casting over on AMC’s Film Critic.

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My comic book movies column has moved over to AMC’s FilmCritic.com. Come on over and read reviews of new movies, features, and, of course, my stuff.

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I actually went to the one in Universal Studios in 1999. I ordered the ArcAngel-Hair Pasta.

I love how the funny names break down after a while. I imagine loads of confused mothers ordered the “House of Ideas Salad.” (Courtesy of CBR).

A few months back, after the Heroes season finale aired, I wrote about what the show needs to fix for ComicsAlliance. Seeing as how the premiere is just more of the same with the guy from Prison Break as a creepy carny, I decided to focus on what Heroes does best: shill products.

I have such a love/hate thing with Heroes. Okay, that’s a bit strong. More like mildly like/strongly hate. When it’s good, it’s passably mindless television. When it’s bad, it’s some of the worst TV I’ve ever seen. Like so bad I actually go back and examine what I liked about it in the first place. Perhaps it was never all that good to begin with.

The second season is really where the trouble begins. The first season, viewers were given so much—fast-moving plots, intriguing backstories, quiet character moments, characters using their powers in innovative ways, characters not changing their motivations from scene to scene—at a time when Lost, that other mystery-obsessed nerd obsession, was holding back and shuffling its feet with new characters (Paolo and Nikki) and a slow-moving big picture storyline. But once the show became a hit, and it was clear that the suddenly popular cast had to stay intact, there was really nowhere to go.

Every quality show from the past few years—24, Lost, Sopranos, Mad Men—has taken risks, killing off characters or dropped storylines entirely if they weren’t working. Meanwhile, Heroes just went about repeating itself (more disasters! more Sylar!) before going off into some insanely awful directions (pretty much everything that happened in Season Three).

Also, I am a big fan of Topless Robot’s Heroes live-blog. It’s pretty much the sole reason I’m still watching.