"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility": Spider-Man's Most Inspiring Lesson

You can get tons of inspirational lessons from Spider-Man.   But every lesson you can learn from Spider-Man can be ultimately traced originating from one basic principle, Spider-Man’s trademark mantra: “With great power comes great responsibility.”  It simply means that responsibility always accompanies power, and the amount of responsibility is directly proportional to the amount of power; hence, the greater the power, the greater...

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Chain of Thoughts: 2013 Highlights

Per usual of my yearly reviews, this one is late as well...  The year 2013, for me, is defined by the following:→ After three years, went travelling with my family again.→ “Selfies” and “throwbacks.”  Maybe such practices had already been done prior, but it was in this year that these terms and doings had full-blown, extensive cultural popularity. → Hashtags has been around since Twitter’s boom.  But doing hashtags become...

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The "Bernels" for 2013's Small Screen

Last year, I started my very own movie awards – the “Bernels” (LOL).  It was nothing fancy and technical.  Just plain fun, informal ad-libs of categories for predetermined winners.  I’m going to do more of that soon (around the Oscars season), but for now, I’ve decided that I’m going to apply the Bernels’ treatment on 2013 TV shows.   (So now, the Bernel’s will have two editions: for TV and then for movies.  Sort of...

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The Amazing Spider-Man Relaunch: Glorious Return of Peter Parker, Flashbacks, or an April Fools' Day Prank?

So I was just having my usual Internet surfing last night… when I encountered this…   ......YEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! MARVEL IS BRINGING PETER PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BACK!!! PARTY TIME!From this leaked cover art of March’s “All-New Marvel NOW!” preview of new series starting in March and April, we can learn that The Amazing Spider-Man is going to be relaunched in April.Several sites now carry...

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Top 20 Comic Reads of 2013

I am an avid reader.  I read a lot.  But among all the media of reading, the easier to make a list of – and most fun – “the best of the year” for is on comics.   Why?  Well, the year’s comics are more conveniently acquired than the year’s books.  Any book I acquire and read during the year were not from that year (but were published or released from previous years).  Hence, I can’t make a list of 2013 books (i.e....

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