Because it’s Wednesday somewhere still, right? So a few days ago, I posted this picture on Instagram: Doing something scary… I’ll blog about it on Wednesday. #amwriting A post shared by John Otte (@otte.jw) on Dec 4, 2017 at 1:48pm PST And I did promise that I would blog…
Hoo, boy. All right, before we get into the meat of the review, I feel that there are a few things I have to say up front. The necessity of these disclaimers comes from a few years of debating the merits of the DCCU with friends of mine. It seems…
So what could draw me out of yet another lengthy blogging hiatus? How about the latest entry into the MCU? Last night, I headed to my local movie theater with an IMAX screen to see what the God of Thunder has gotten himself into this time. It turns out, a…
Every now and then, a meme will make the rounds that gets stuck in my craw. It’s happened to me a few times before. And rather than just brush it off and go about my life, I feel the urge to do something about it. Sometimes it’s as simple as…
Last week, I went to the special IMAX presentation of Marvel’s latest TV series, The Inhumans. And, like I said in my review, I was mostly “whelmed” by the experience. Not over-, not under-, just plained whelmed. It was a perfectly serviceable superhero TV show with its own unique strengths…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave. So anyone who has been paying attention to the current state of superhero stories in the wider media (hello!) knows that Marvel’s The Inhumans have had an interesting production history. At first, we were supposed to get an Inhumans movie somewhere down the…
It would appear that I fell into some sort of space/time rupture there and now I’m just emerging. Well, that’s not the case. I apparently wound up taking a little bit of a hiatus from the blogging world again. Sorry. It happens sometimes. So why did I go dark this…
Late last night, I snuck over to a local movie theater so I could catch Wonder Woman in IMAX 3D and I left with…well, with an odd sensation. A feeling I hadn’t experienced after seeing a DC Cinematic Universe movie in a long time. I left without feeling disappointed. I…
This is post 34 of 34 in the series “Geek Confessional” Confessing my deepest, darkest geek secrets. Geek Confessional: I’ve got (a lot of) game Geek Confessional: I’ve written for Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, and The X-Files (sort of) Geek Confessional Update: I have the scripts! Geek Confessional:…
It’s been a while. I can’t remember the last time I wrote one of my wordcount updates. It’s not that I haven’t been writing. I have. But each time I thought about doing one, I never really got around to it. So what’s been going on? Well, let’s see here……