Nick Knack

Hey everybody! I know I haven't posted for awhile, I've been really busy with school these past few weeks. I recently finished a research paper for my English 100 class here at WKU and I'd really like to share it. Enjoy! Any Given Sunday…….and Thursday: Calling for the abolishment of TNF games             The National Football League (NFL) has been implementing primetime slots for marquee matchups since the creation of Monday Night Football (MNF) in 1970 and Sunday Night Football (SNF) in 1987. These programs drew high ratings for the NFL week in and week out. These games were also practical times for the players. The players had as much time to rest after a hard-fought football game if they were playing on SNF or MNF and got to play under the bright lights, so it was a win-win for everyone. Ten years ago, the NFL changed this formula by implementing Thursday Night Football (TNF) games which were only held some weeks at first. Today, however, TNF...

A recent episode of one of my favorite podcasts,  The Top 10 Show,  hosted weekly by Matt Knost and John Rocha focused on their top ten favorite Marvel movies along with special guest, Marc Andreyko. During the episode, the trio discussed the excellent Marvel film,  Logan , which led to some very interesting insight from Marc discussing why  Logan  along with  The Dark Knight  and  Wonder Woman  are the three most important comic book movies. I'd like to share and elaborate on Marc's sentiments. Marc Andreyko, himself, is a long-time comic book writer and has had success writing for Doctor Strange and DC Comics' Manhunter among others; he loves the comic-book genre as much as anyone and has also received an Eisner award for Best Anthology with his comic,  Love is Love . During this installment of  The Top 10 Show  March conveyed his thoughts on why these three films are among the most important among all comic-book movies ...

I love the X-Men! I have for years as they’re my favorite Marvel property right behind Spider-Man. I love the relevant themes and social commentary brought by the X-Men series along with an awesome cast of unique characters from the savage and highly intellectual Beast to the cruel yet understandable Magneto. I’m still a relatively new comic book reader so I’ve much more experience with the films; hence why I’m presenting my personal list of every X-Men related movie. 10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) How do you mess up the origin story to such a beloved character? This should’ve been the easiest origin story to make but what we got was an over-convoluted mess filled with continuity errors and absurd action sequences. This movie was sad bad that it killed the “X-Men: Origins” franchise before it even started. That’s right. Fox wanted to make even more needless origin stories but instead the X-Men franchise was put into serious trouble after this film’s release. At least t...