Remember when Fox was the upstart network? Watching its new refried sitcom, Oliver Beene, I idly flashed back to those golden years. When the rude Married with Children blew its first bracing raspberry at the then-reigning Cosby Show, when The Simpsons premiered to up the subversive takedown of American family …

Another look at Minus 5's Down With Wilco.

Dipping into Japanese manga with Shonen Jump.

The plain yellow cover to David B.’s Epileptic 1 (L’Association) only hints at the visual inventiveness found in this remarkable autobiographical graphic work: two boys, one half a head taller than his brother, look out at the reader. To the side of this duo lurks a large lizard head – …

More songs about guitars and gurls: been playing a lot of recent discs from the current crop of pop-‘n’-roll bands, so let’s weigh in on three of ’em. Geezers of the batch have to be Supergrass – now on their third release, Life on Other Planets (Island), an altogether solid …

Bruce weighs in on Iraq. . .

Ah gee, another New Order “Best-Of” collection. What is this now – their third or fourth? I’m gonna be upfront about this: any New Order disc purporting to be the creme de la creme that does not include “Temptation” (the “Oh, you’ve got green eyes/Oh, you’ve got blue eyes” song) …

Yup, another look at the new Daredevil movie. . .

Disney's teevee remake of The Music Man.

A look at the source for this season's big superhero pic. . .