2023-01-28 15:00
* Part 4 of 4 of the B Level storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Alias (Vol. 1), Issue #9 – “B Level (Part 4)”! In the previous installment, Jes… Read More
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2023-01-27 21:00
Jesus, Snoopy. You make it look so easy.
I’m trying to write a book. In reality, it’s more like I’m trying to continue liking the idea of writing a book. Sorry, my book. I… Read More
2023-01-27 15:00
This Nynaeve chapter is rather short, as Nynaeve chapters tend to be. Not much happens at all except that hits a couple of beats that had occurred over the last batch of chapters: Moiraine… Read More
2023-01-26 15:00
* Part 3 of 6 of the Green Lantern: Rebirth limited Series *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Green Lantern: Rebirth, Issue #3 – “Yellow”! In the previou… Read More
2023-01-25 21:00
Tagline:Being bad has never felt so good.
Wide Release Date:July 24, 2020
Directed by:
Karen MaineWritten by:
Karen MaineProduced by:
Katie Cordeal, Colleen Hammond, Eleanor Columbus, Rodr… Read More
2023-01-25 15:00
Mat and Rand are hanging out in Master Basel Gill’s Caemlyn inn eating scraps and shooting the shit. Rand is apprehensive, insisting that Gill’s help will only get him in troubl… Read More
2023-01-24 23:00
* Part 3 of 4 of the B Level storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Alias (Vol. 1), Issue #8 – “B Level (Part 3)”! In the previous installment, Jes… Read More
2023-01-23 16:00
Finally, finally, finally, finally, Mat and Rand make it to Caemlyn via a ride from the Very Friendly Bunt. Bunt kicks them out of his carriage and advises Rand to either hide his sword, se… Read More
2023-01-22 15:00
* Part 1 of 9 of Vol. 2 – “Confluence” *
Welcome to Manga Cum Loudly Presents: Death Note, Vol. 2, Chapter 8: “Woman”! Yes, that’s right, in Manga World t… Read More
2023-01-21 15:00
* Part 2 of 6 of the Green Lantern: Rebirth limited Series *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Green Lantern: Rebirth, Issue #2 – “Enemies Within”! In the… Read More
2023-01-20 23:00
Released: July 14, 2011
Length: 32:00
“Comb and Wattles” gets weird with it right away, and not just because of the perplexing name. Fuzzing guitar that sounds like an engine re… Read More
2023-01-20 15:00
“The Last Village” must refer to the last stop Mat and Rand make before finally getting to Caemlyn. Perhaps their luck will turn around here in a big way, finding streets lined… Read More
2023-01-19 21:00
* Part 2 of 4 of the B Level storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Alias (Vol. 1), Issue #7 – “B Level (Part 2)”! In the previous installment, Car… Read More
2023-01-19 03:30
Tagline:When the cops are busy… Our only hope is…
Wide Release Date:August 6, 2010
Directed by:
Adam McKayWritten by:
Adam McKay, Chris HenchyProduced by:
Will Ferrell, Adam… Read More
2023-01-18 15:00
The adventures of Rand and Mat continue. A non-linear narrative, some real cerebral shit in this chapter. It opens with the two of them getting a ride by a man named Kinch. It seems Rand wa… Read More
2023-01-16 21:00
* Part 1 of 4 of the Family Matters storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Invincible, Issue #1!
I wanna start on this one for three main reasons. 1) There are 144 i… Read More
2023-01-16 15:00
Four Kings skeeves Rand out, but since he and Mat have grown accustomed to not sleeping on piles of pitchforks, they try their luck anyway. Inn after inn after inn already has entertainers… Read More
2023-01-15 15:00
Welcome to May, 1986! Top Gun hits theaters! Not much else happens.
Calvin didn’t get to see Top Gun because he was grounded for sticking fireworks in stray cats’ butts.
May 2, 1… Read More
2023-01-14 16:00
* Part 1 of 6 of the Green Lantern: Rebirth limited Series *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Green Lantern: Rebirth, Issue #1 – “Blackest Night”!
Have I… Read More
2023-01-13 15:00
We haven’t seen Rand and Mat since they ran away from Whitebridge and Thommy Gleeman presumably got murdered by some Myrddraal Dark One Fade Trolloc Draghkar thing. Now they walking a… Read More
2023-01-12 22:00
* Part 1 of 4 of the B Level storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Alias (Vol. 1), Issue #6 – “B Level (Part 1)”!
It’s been a while since I… Read More
2023-01-11 21:00
“Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years.“
I remember this one scraping the bottom of the barrel from what S… Read More
2023-01-11 15:00
Enjoying the safety of the stedding, Perrin mopes around demonstrably not enjoying the safety of the stedding and instead fretting about how he intended to kill Egwene with his axe. Elyas m… Read More
2023-01-10 21:00
* Part 7 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #7 – “I Found That Essence Rare – A… Read More
2023-01-09 21:00
Welcome to the Bongo Comics Box! Today’s feature: Simpsons Comics #1! And what a feature it is! The landmark first issue! Do you know how old this is? This issue predates the Simpsons… Read More
2023-01-09 15:00
What’s nice about this chapter is that it’s 85% running around and 15% something interesting. Far be it from me to expect a little intrigue within the pages of my book that&rsqu&helli…Read More
2023-01-08 18:00
Now that we’re in full swing in 2023 and I’ve already broken my New Year’s resolution to stop spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on designer belt buckles, we can all… Read More
2023-01-07 16:00
* Part 5 of 5 of the Revolution storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) Issue #5! The Revolution storyline comes to an end, and not a moment to… Read More
2023-01-06 15:00
Not much happens in the Nynaeve / Moiraine / Lan chapters. This is only the second one, but I’m making sweeping generalizations about them mostly because they amount to the following:… Read More
2023-01-05 22:00
* Part 6 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #6 – “Take Me Down To the Paradise City W… Read More
2023-01-04 15:00
Traveling with the Tinkers! If you think it sounds like part of the ’90s ABC TGIF lineup, you’re not wrong! Perrin spends most of his time eyeballing everyone and noticing that… Read More
2023-01-03 15:00
* Part 4 of 5 of the Revolution storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) Issue #4! In the previous installment, the Avengers show up in Australi… Read More
2023-01-02 21:00
* Part 5 of 5 of the Paper Girls Volume 3 storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: Paper Girls, Issue #15! Another day, another wrapped-up storyline. In the previous in… Read More
2023-01-02 15:00
After several days on the smelly, rotting ship, the Spray, the crew docks in Whitebridge (known for its White Bridge). Domon fires Floran Gelb, the deckhand who spends all his time shooting… Read More
2023-01-01 20:00
Happy New Year, all you gorgeous men and women. Hopefully you’ve all stuck to your New Year’s resolutions so far of losing 700 pounds and/or writing that Great American Novel, ev… Read More
2022-12-31 16:00
2022! Another year in the books! Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine! Volodymyr Zelenskyy invades all our hearts! Queen Elizabeth died! Charles III is the first corpse ever to become King of the… Read More
2022-12-30 15:00
Wolves are scary. Perrin and Egwene are scared traveling with Elyas and his pack of hungry, hungry, bitey, chewy wolves. In actuality, they’re all pleasant enough, but Egewene is very… Read More
2022-12-29 16:00
Tagline:A family comedy without the family.
Wide Release Date:November 16, 1990
Directed by:
Chris ColumbusWritten by by:
John HughesProduced by:
John Hughes
Starring:
Macaulay Culkin
Joe… Read More
2022-12-28 15:00
Rand has a dream again. It’s veeerrryy interesting. You see, it’s something about running around an M.C. Escher staircase maze with brambles and thorns as the walls. Ba’al… Read More
2022-12-27 15:00
* Part 5 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #5 – “I’m Free as a Bird – An… Read More
2022-12-26 21:00
* Part 4 of 5 of the Paper Girls Volume 3 storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: Paper Girls, Issue #14! In the previous installment, Erin, Tiff, and Wari discover on… Read More
2022-12-26 15:00
I thought this chapter was called “Wolfmother” at first, and the face I made? You don’t even want to know.
We continue following Perrin and Egwene as they stumble through… Read More
2022-12-25 15:00
Merry Christmas. Now that we got that out of the way, welcome to April, 1986! Clint Eastwood is elected fuckin’ mayor of a small California town. IBM creates the first megabit chip! Mi… Read More
2022-12-24 17:30
* Part 3 of 5 of the Revolution storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) Issue #3 – “Avengers vs. Uncanny X-Men GO!”! And let… Read More
2022-12-23 15:00
A transitional chapter, to be sure. It was very short, and nothing happens except that Perrin makes a decision.
Thus far, Perrin has been presented as a little bit slow. “A Path Chose… Read More
2022-12-22 18:00
The ’90s were unquestionably a golden age.
Merry Christmas to all you patriots and dumbfuck Ultra-MAGA assholes! Get off my website! Now for the rest of you, here’s the second in… Read More
2022-12-21 21:00
Tagline:Peace. Harmony. Comfort and Joy… Maybe Next Year.
Wide Release Date:November 18, 1983
Directed by:
Bob ClarkScreenplay by:
Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, Bob ClarkProduced by:… Read More
2022-12-21 15:00
Nynaeve alert! She gets her own chapter, and it’s an informative one!
She’s ok. She had fallen asleep in the woods, which she chastises herself for. She could’ve ended up… Read More
2022-12-20 15:00
* Part 4 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #4 – “Come Fly With Me – Come Die… Read More
2022-12-19 21:00
* Part 3 of 5 of the Paper Girls Volume 3 storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: Paper Girls, Issue #13! In the previous installment, Erin and KJ outfit the Wild Woma… Read More
2022-12-19 15:00
It took 300 pages, but we are in a situation now where the group has splintered apart. On their way out of Shadar Logoth, there’s a whole thing involving *looks it up* Mashadar, which… Read More
2022-12-18 19:30
One week until Christmas, which means one week until I watch 24 hours of A Christmas Story and get completely trashed on spiked eggnog. And I don’t even drink! That’s how special… Read More
2022-12-17 20:15
* Part 2 of 5 of the Revolution storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) Issue #2 – “Poink is the New BAMF”! And yuck, that&rs&hell…Read More
2022-12-17 01:00
“Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an ‘encounter’ he experienced as a child.“
Uh huh. And was this ‘encounter’ related t… Read More
2022-12-16 15:00
Shadar Logoth. SHADAR LOGOTH. SHAH DARR LOW GOTH. This city is huge, full of buildings that are bigger than other buildings. Buildings as far as the eye can see, covered in domes and tons o… Read More
2022-12-15 14:00
* Part 3 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #3 – “Cherish Is the Word I Use – T… Read More
2022-12-15 00:00
Tagline:Don’t fade away.
Wide Release Date:July 14, 2017
Directed by:
Marti NoxonWritten by:
Marti NoxonProduced by:
Bonnie Curtis, Karina Miller, Julie Lynn
Starring:
Lily Collins
K… Read More
2022-12-14 16:15
When it comes to fantasy books where a group spends the entire book traversing a map, there are two flavors of the “going down the road” sections: 1) The group does a lot of tal… Read More
2022-12-13 15:00
* Part 2 of 5 of the Paper Girls Volume 3 storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: Paper Girls, Issue #12! In the previous installment, the girls try to figure out wher… Read More
2022-12-12 15:00
Gaiety abounds in the Stag and Lion common room! Why, Thom the Gleeman hops around the room like a loon regaling the clientele with fanciful legends and tales like The Great Hunt and The Gr… Read More
2022-12-11 19:30
Keeping it short and sweet today. Enjoy three shitty strips with barely any commentary! I’m gonna go take a nap.
Pluggers
Click for Larger
We can add “being obese” to th… Read More
2022-12-10 17:00
* Part 1 of 5 of the Revolution storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) Issue #1 – “The New Revolution”!
Another day, another… Read More
2022-12-09 23:00
Tagline:The last place you’d ever expect to find yourself
Wide Release Date:June 12, 2009
Directed by:
Duncan JonesWritten by:
Nathan ParkerProduced by:
Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler… Read More
2022-12-09 16:00
I can’t take it any longer. Thom the Gleeman has mustaches. As in, more than one. Every time they mention this man with his bushy hair and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat, they poin… Read More
2022-12-08 19:00
Through the Idiot Glass Disclaimer: There will be spoilers. If you’re even remotely interested in this show and you haven’t yet seen it, or if you’ll be mad if you accident… Read More
2022-12-07 18:00
Get your pitchforks ready, it’s time to “rock” the “house”.
Yo! I already wrote a very long preamble about Pitchfork in their 2021 Top 50 analysis. Like hell I… Read More
2022-12-07 15:00
One thing I neglected to mention in the previous chapter’s write-up was that Rand’s dream contained the Dark One snapping a rat to death by its back. I failed to mention this be… Read More
2022-12-06 22:00
* Part 2 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #2 – “Shot Through the Heart – and… Read More
2022-12-05 15:00
This is the first chapter in a while where people aren’t just walking around the woods and shit. The Stag and Lion Inn in Baerlon is bustling with activity; staff walking around with… Read More
2022-12-04 21:00
December is upon us and with it comes Christmas trees that shoot sap at my face, various flavors of nog, the loathsome Frosty the Snowman special, pretty girls bludgeoning me in the face wit… Read More
2022-12-03 15:00
* Part 8 of 8 of the Zodiac storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Avengers Assemble (Vol. 2) Issue #8 – “Zodiac (Part 8)”! After a lot of pain and… Read More
2022-12-02 18:30
“Welcome to my concert. Are you folks ready to ‘rock’ the ‘house’?”
List Season is upon us once again, and with it comes a few dozen publications worth of… Read More
2022-12-02 15:00
At last, after 47 chapters of meandering, the group of seven actually get somewhere. But before we get to that, let’s talk about the meandering!
Rand gets a first-hand experience on w… Read More
2022-12-02 01:00
* Part 1 of 7 of the REDemption storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Vol. 1), Issue #1 – “I Fought the Law and Kicked Its But… Read More
2022-11-30 15:00
The travelling group of sorcerer types, children, and a clown are finally, finally, going to be crossing the city limits out of Two Rivers and into Hicksville. And that’s saying somet… Read More
2022-11-29 14:00
As I sit here this morning with a mug full of Very Irish Coffee (a thermos full of Irish whiskey with a teaspoon of Folger’s), looking out the window at the majestic Chicago scenery (a… Read More
2022-11-28 21:00
* Part 1 of 5 of the Paper Girls Volume 3 storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: Paper Girls, Issue #11! So good of you to join me again after the most briefest of hi… Read More
2022-11-28 16:30
Yet another short chapter where not much happens, so I’ll use this first paragraph to talk about how great mostaccioli is. Some may swear by the humble penne, but mostaccioli reigns s… Read More
2022-11-27 16:00
Happy Three-Days-After-American-Thanksgiving! I got plump upon turkey and potatoes to be sure, and now I’m enjoying my last day of freedom before I return to the torturous drudgery of… Read More
2022-11-26 16:00
* Part 6 of 8 of the Zodiac storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Avengers Assemble (Vol. 2) Issue #7 – “Zodiac (Part 7)”! In the previous install… Read More
2022-11-25 21:00
William McKinley’s first State of the Blog address was presented while wearing his finest top hat. Shortly thereafter, his top hat was shot right off of his fat head.
Hello Tom Writes… Read More
2022-11-25 15:00
This the part where an epic journey finally awaits, and let me tell you, I’m more than happy to be along for the ride! I hope someone brings plenty of trail mix and Spider-Man comic b… Read More
2022-11-24 16:00
* Part 6 of 6 of the Blood storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Wonder Woman (Vol. 4), Issue #6 – “Thrones”! In the previous installment, things… Read More
2022-11-23 21:00
With only six Wednesdays left until the end of the year, and four weeks of January spillover, I don’t have much of a chance anymore to pump out some 2022 album reviews. As we get close… Read More
2022-11-23 15:00
This was a boring chapter. Chapters like these in fantasy books are a slog to read, and maybe I was already very tired today while reading this. I was up until 1:30am last night, I woke up… Read More
2022-11-23 02:45
* Part 6 of 8 of the Zodiac storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Avengers Assemble (Vol. 2) Issue #6 – “Zodiac (Part 6)”! In the previous install… Read More
2022-11-21 21:00
Welcome to the Bongo Comics Box!
I may have only been reading real comics, so to speak, for a year and a half now. But almost 30 years ago, when my Simpsons obsession was in full force, I w… Read More
2022-11-21 16:30
We last left Rand leading the way to his dying father at the Emond’s Field inn. Lan, the Warder, is emotionless, yet impatient. Moiraine, the Aes Sedai, is emotionless, yet patient. T… Read More
2022-11-20 17:00
Welcome to March, 1986! Metallica releases Master of Puppets! Beatles albums are finally available to buy in Russia! Georgia O’Keeffe dies along with her vagina flower paintings.
Calvi… Read More
2022-11-19 15:30
* Part 5 of 6 of the Blood storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Wonder Woman (Vol. 4), Issue #5 – “Lourdes”! In the previous installment, Wonder… Read More
2022-11-18 20:00
Released: May 15, 2011
Length: 31:10
“Lebrontron” kicks off the very first album in the very long Pike series that has gone on relentlessly for the last 11 years. Very riff-orie… Read More
2022-11-18 15:00
I’ll probably say this every two chapters, but shit is starting to get real. And by that, I literally mean it. All these stories and fables of Trollocs and Aes Sedai and Warders and t… Read More
2022-11-18 02:30
* Part 5 of 8 of the Zodiac storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Avengers Assemble (Vol. 2) Issue #5 – “Zodiac (Part 5)”! In the previous install… Read More
2022-11-16 21:00
Through the Idiot Glass Disclaimer: There will be spoilers. If you’re even remotely interested in this show and you haven’t yet seen it, or if you’ll be mad if you accident… Read More
2022-11-16 15:00
A transition chapter, to be sure. Rand discovers that the wound his father endured was BARELY a scratch. Superficial across Tam’s chest barely the length of Rand’s hand. The kid… Read More
2022-11-15 18:00
* Part 4 of 6 of the Blood storyline *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Wonder Woman (Vol. 4), Issue #4 – “Blood”! In the previous installment, Wonder Wo… Read More
2022-11-14 21:00
* Part 14 of 14 of the The Apocalypse: Year Two storyline *
Welcome to Ghostliness & Nerfherders Presents: East of West, Issue #29 – “Prodigal”! It’s been a long… Read More
2022-11-14 15:30
Not much happens here today. Tam and Rand head back to their sad little farm somewhere in the outskirts of Emond’s Field and do a whole slew of horribly boring chores before preparing… Read More
2022-11-13 22:00
* Part 6 of 7 of Vol. 1 – “Boredom” *
Welcome to Manga Cum Loudly Presents: Death Note, Vol. 1, Chapter 7: “Target”! In the previous installment, Raito formulat… Read More
2022-11-12 22:30
* An issue of the X-Men: Chris Claremon Era *
Welcome to Loneliness & Cheeseburgers Presents: Giant Size X-Men, Issue #1! Certainly, this is the only issue of Giant Size X-Men that matte… Read More
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