Category Archives: media mediated

Minecraft Muesday: Titan’s Well

Let’s see what’s been happening in Baconia this week! Titan’s Well descends all the way to the bedrock. We have plans to install a rail line to the bottom of the well from the surface: “Cactus Johnson’s Cave Tours.” Have you been creating any cool things in Minecraft lately?

Media Mediated: Wreck-It Ralph

At a Glance: Wreck-It Ralph Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk Director: Rich Moore 101 mins PG Media Mediated rates: 4/5 The 1980s were the Decade of the Arcade. Propelled by the success of such classics as Pac-Man, Galaga, and the original Super Mario Bros., the video arcade became […]

Plan X Media and The Hunger Games

I’ve got something to share with you. Plan X Media (of which Sketch Comedy is an affiliate) recently launched its website and has since updated with several new movie reviews–most notably its review of The Hunger Games. Plan X prez Ash Green takes a critical look at the popular movie, and his review is an […]

The Hazards Of Norway

This comic, inspired by a suggestion from my friend Dave Johnson, is a sort of tribute to the mockumentary Troll Hunter. In the film, a group of students filming an independent documentary about bear poachings begins following an enigmatic trapper, only to discover that he is a troll hunter. Troll Hunter is not for the […]

Media Mediated Micro-Review: The Muppets

Over Thanksgiving weekend I saw The Muppets with my family. I did not stop smiling through the film; Kermit and crew are as ridiculously charming as ever. The plot is simple: while touring the run-down Muppet Studios with his brother Gary (Jason Segal) and Gary’s girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), an enthusiastic muppet fan named Walter […]

Media Mediated: Friday Five on Monday Again

Welcome to the second installment of the Friday Five. Begun by Brian Russell, the Friday Five are the top five webcomic strips from the past week–only when we at Sketch Comedy do a Friday Five, we do it on other days of the week because we are contumacious and recalcitrant. Also we like to use […]

Media Mediated: Monday’s Friday Five

Brian Russell has started a cool thing: The Friday Five! Every Friday, he posts links to his favorite five webcomic posts that he’s read that past week. It’s like Wes Molebash’s Friday Faves but for webcomics! We at Sketch Comedy think this is such a great practice that we are going to adopt it ourselves. […]

Captain America: Jackson’s Thoughts

Captain America is the best superhero movie I have seen this summer. I’m not planning to do a formal review here. Those things take like three hours to do and end up sounding like a college essay, not that that’s a bad thing. But I thoroughly enjoyed the flick and thought it got a number […]