Despite having my initial viewing of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds ruined by incompetent projectionists at my local Carmike Cinemas, I felt even then that it was a masterpiece. Overlong in places, to be sure, but a masterpiece. Watching the film in Blu-ray for its release this week is quite a...

Later this month Delacorte Press is publishing a brand new collection of unpublished short stories by the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Look at the Birdie collects 14 short stories that were written during Vonnegut's early days and have been dusted off since his tragic and untimely death in...

For those who don't know, The Unknown Soldier was a comic book based war hero from the late '60s. War comics were popular and through the '60s and '70s, and The Unknown Soldier, a bandaged and scarred master of disguises, bedeviled the Nazi's during World War II for close...

I've been on pins and needles watching the health care debate rage on. On the television, the radio, the newspapers, the Internet. Everywhere.

I can't help it. It's the most important issue we're facing today and when things go wrong I can get pretty angry.

You can imagine...

I'm in the camp of people who believes that health care is the single most important issue before Congress at the moment. Sure, the economy is in bad shape, but if people weren't having their homes foreclosed on them because they're swimming in medical bills the economy would be in...

I've been following the debate about health care reform with bated breath, just like the rest of you. This is perhaps the most important issue being negotiated in our country right now, both in the Congress and the media.

Like most of you, I'm frustrated that the reform being...

"You know what six movies average out to be really good? The first six Star Trek movies!" --Phillip J. Fry,

Ever since the release of the most recent Star Trek motion picture a couple of weeks ago, the original adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise have been...

By now, everyone knows that the early word is that Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has been tapped by the Obama administration to be the ambassador to China.

I know it might seem counter-intuitive for Obama to be picking a Republican from one of the reddest states in the nation...

It was two years ago today that Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. passed away. It doesn't seem all that long ago, really, and looking back on what I had written when I found out, I still feel much the same way.

I wish he could have seen how far the world...

In order to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Marvel comics had planned events to cover all of President's Day weekend.

Starting midday Wednesday, Marvel made the entire Spider-Man/Obama Inaugural Special available online for free at this location. Not only will all 6 pages of...

With the passage of the Stimulus bill in the Senate, both houses of Congress will work to reconcile the bill. Hopefully, they'll work to take out the most egregious examples of lunacy in the bill.

Hopefully they can bring the tax cuts down and increase the spending.

But in...

In order to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama, President-elect and admitted Spider-Man collector, as 44th President of the United States, Marvel Comics just had to have Spider-Man meet the new President.

"When we heard that President-Elect Obama is a collector of Spider-Man comics, we knew that these two historic...

As promised in my revelation last week, the usual gang of idiots over at MAD Magazine have allowed me to exclusively unveil to Huffington Post readers (and the world) who the dumbest person of 2008 is. And for the magazine that employs someone as preposterously stupid as Alfred E....

In an effort to appeal to a crowd other than the snot-nosed, obnoxious thirteen year old market, the usual gang of idiots at MAD Magazine have been on the nose this election season with biting political commentary. (You can see the previous Huffington Post exclusives of that commentary here...

I'm sure you've all been reading the reports of Batman's death. Much like the death's of Superman (in 1992) and Captain America's death (in 2007, which I wrote about at the time) the media always seems to pay attention to the world of comic books when something major...

I've spent the last couple of years working on a documentary about the American obesity epidemic and it's finally time to pull the sheet off of the sculpture, as it were.

We're having our premiere next week in New York and I wanted to invite the readers of the Huffington...

No, I'm not a moron.

And no, I've never had any suicidal inclinations to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

I'm still straddling the Obama/Nader fence. And I know what a lot of you are suddenly thinking. I get an earful of it (or at least an inbox full...

At the debate tonight a woman in the audience asked Obama: "Should health care be treated as a commodity?"

The moral, ethical, and American answer is, "No."

Obama's answer? A laundry list of what his plan will do, but no answering of the question. His plan was laden with health...

Paul Newman acted in some of my favorite movies, both new and old, and he acted at an ability some only ever dream of. From Cool Hand Luke to Road to Perdition and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to The Hudsucker Proxy, Newman made the movie theatre a better...

Set for release on September 30th from the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, The Alcoholic chronicles Jonathan Ames' semi-autobiographical descent into writing and alcoholism with a backdrop of his family life, relationships and various misadventures.

Illustrated by Dean Haspiel (who illustrated Michael Chabon's Escapist), The Alcoholic is alternately poignant...