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I'm imagining a summer road movie, sort of a Hope/Crosby update by way of Road Trip, starring Adam Sandler and Tom Hanks as a couple of successful scam artists. First...
Everybody wants to be a geek," Big Brain Comics proprietor Michael Drivas tells me. "Everybody wants to have a command of some cool specialized body of knowledge." As someone...
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