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The Spirit (April 20, 1941) “The S.S. Raven”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 28, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Spirit has had a wider narrative scope as of late, but never before have Eisner and studio attempted anything like S.S. Raven. It’s a phenomenally weird strip, all about a killer Navy boat, with an ornery, lovab read more
The Spirit (April 13, 1941) “Croaky Andrews’ Perfect Crime”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 24, 2026
Croaky‘s tale is Spirit at its most didactic: crime does not pay. It’s also the strip stretching to center other characters, in this case Croaky and his best gal, Poison Mag. The Perfect Crime title is a tad misleading; Croaky’s crime is robbing some guy of a hundred thousand doll read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #72
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 24, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) This issue is another strong one for All-Star. Very strong. It gets there a tad cheaply—Golden Age Flash villain Thorn is now aggressively lethal, bumping off Keystone City rando read more
The Spirit (April 6, 1941) “Introducing Scarlett Brown”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 20, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) If you want to explore the peculiarities of Spirit’s characterization and visualization of Ebony White, Introducing Scarlett Brown is probably the most fodder the strip’s seen to date. Ebony, of course, is the Spiri read more
The Spirit (March 30, 1941) “Captured by the Underworld”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 17, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The title gives everything away in this strip: the Central City underworld teams up (principally three gangsters) and successfully captures the Spirit. Not a particularly difficult feat, it turns out. They give Spir read more
All-Star Comics (1976) #71
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 11, 2026
Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Adrienne Roy (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) Even leaving aside the delightful implication Green Lantern and the Flash are sharing a bedroom as part of GL’s rehabilitation (Joan does not appear, wink wink), this issue of Al read more
The Spirit (March 23, 1941) “Dipsy Dooble”
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jan 4, 2026
Will Eisner (editor, script, pencils, inks) Joe Kubert (colors) Sam Rosen (letters) The Dolans—both Commissioner and Ellen—are back this strip after a few weeks off. The Commissioner’s sick of Ellen just going to teas or dances; it’s high time she settles down with a husband or gets herself read more
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 28, 2020
In the third act of Notorious, director Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht (who had some uncredited and quite exquisite help) figure out a way to get maximal drama out of a rather mundane situation. Well, mundane as far as the possibilities of American agents in Rio de Janeiro (with the permissio read more
Introducing the New Amazing
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 24, 2020
I’ve always wondered what would happen to blog readership if I stopped posting regularly. Not even daily, just regularly. According to the stats… not much. Because despite having sixty-four posts written and ready to publish (save the header images, which would take quite a while), I don’t have read more
Valley of the Gods (2019, Lech Majewski)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 11, 2020
Valley of the Gods is a cautionary tale. If you’re going to make a combination of Citizen Kane—with either actual footage or a recreated shot—and then a bunch of vague Kubrick nods, including Keir Dullea (arguably in the film’s best performance) as a snippy butler and a HAL while doing a retelling read more
House of Hummingbird (2018, Kim Bora)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 3, 2020
Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) is an average Seoul eighth grader circa 1994, which would be fine if being average weren’t a one-way ticket to nowhere. Park’s the youngest of three children; while presumably eldest sister Park Soo-yeon has already screwed up and is going to a crappy school across the bridge, read more
A New (temporary?) Format
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 28, 2020
Outside some special posts–Josh Hartnett movies coming up, y’all–and anything Vernon wants to post, I’m moving all new material (for the time being) over to a TinyLetter newsletter. Lots of reason, lots of things, maybe I’ll write about them in it, maybe it’ll ju read more
The Alienist (2018) s02e01 – Ex Ore Infantium
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 22, 2020
Dakota Fanning gets the “and” credit in “The Alienist: Season Two: Angel of Darkness: Ex Ore Infantium.” She doesn’t die (at least not in this episode, and since it’s based on a novel I could just spoil myself), but the “and” credit is quizzical because it’s very clear this time around read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e10 – Blink
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 21, 2020
Blink is apparently not a backdoor pilot to a “Doctor Who” spin-off where recognizable cast—in this case Carey Mulligan on her way up—interacts with the world of Doctor Who without necessarily having to do a lot of scenes with David Tennant. Or Freema Agyeman, who’s second-billed but feels read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e09 – The Family of Blood
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 20, 2020
So I thought this episode—wrapping up a two-parter about the Doctor (David Tennant) turning himself into a human so as to avoid some aliens who are hunting him and losing himself in early 1900s England—wasn’t going to get any worse after Tennant, having regained his memory and alien… superpowers read more
Samurai Marathon (2019, Bernard Rose)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 19, 2020
Samurai Marathon has some strange epilogue problems; all of a sudden the movie’s about marathons, when it turns out the marathon isn’t a particularly big deal in the story. It’s central to the story, but as a narrative tool. It provides the right stage for these characters. Though, with a title read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e08 – Human Nature
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 18, 2020
I didn’t have a great feeling when I saw Paul Cornell with the writing credit but I forced myself to be hopeful. Plus, Charlie Palmer directing, surely it would be all right. What’s the worst Cornell would do, another overly melodramatic time waster… And, yes, he does do another overly melodramatic read more
Rock Jocks (2012, Paul V. Seetachitt)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 17, 2020
Rock Jocks is full of “it’s not racist because” jokes. There’s even a moment early on when Felicia Day tries explaining to Gerry Bednob how he’s actually a racist even though he says he’s not. When he disagrees, Day gives up, which is a fairly good place to give up on Jocks. You’ve hit read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e07 – 42
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 16, 2020
There have to be TV shows where they unintentionally duplicate episodes. Soap operas, whatever. The same plot must get repeated. Unintentionally. Because it very obviously happens intentionally, such as with 42, which is a riff on a great two-parter from last season, only without anything similarly read more
Upload (2020) s01e10 – Freeyond
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 15, 2020
After ignoring the initial A plot but actually the B plot because Robbie Amell and Andy Allo are cute for eight episodes, this episode’s almost entirely about the mystery behind Amell’s death. And his missing memories. The ones he didn’t find out about until halfway through the season but didn’t read more