Ace Attorney, a franchise revolving around murder mysteries and courtroom antics, may be best known for its name puns (“Oh really, Ms. Orly?”), shout-outs (“It’s only a flesh wound, Mr. Wright!”), and absurd gambits for catching murderers (“I would like to cross-examine the witness’s pet parrot!”). Yet the series still manages to deliver poignant commentary…
Fail Better: Remembering Instead of Resolutioning
Last year, instead of resolutions, I opted for rememberlutions. I got this idea from a Buzzfeed article and thought the idea was pretty neat: “New Year’s resolutions can be energizing and motivating, but they can also lead you to beat yourself up; focusing on the previous year’s failures to figure out where to do better…
The Tuskegee Heirs Will Soon Take Flight
[Editor’s note January 14, 2015: The Tuskegee Heirs Kickstarter has launched!] As a kid, I was completely obsessed with the Tuskegee Airmen. I read biographies, killed my Tuskegee Airmen videotape, did my best to know everything possible about the people and the times. This was in part because my grandfather, himself a member of the…
Mighty Marvel Monday: New Year, New Stuff
Happy New Year! And welcome back to another Mighty Marvel Monday, the weekly Marvel news column predicated on the belief that in an age of information overload, it’s easy to miss what’s actually going on. Who has time to actually read all of the dozens of links posted each day? And more importantly, why should…
