The Election Results Are In!
The Democratic Party of Japan has won an impressive electoral victory over the Liberal Democratic Party, which, despite its name, is the more conservative of the two parties. The DPJ is promising new social programs and
Story I expect that a lot of people will, as I did myself, remember him as Apollo Creed, but he was in a bunch of other stuff. and directed a bunch of stuff, too.
Generations is John Byrne's take on the concept "What if Superman and Batman debuted in 1938 and 1939 respectively, then aged in real time?" The first series starts in 1939, then each chapter jumps a decade, reflecting
On Facebook, I mentioned the John Travolta TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (1976) made during his Welcome Back Kotter fame but before Saturday Night Fever. It will be shown this Friday 3/22/24 on TCM at 10PM.
What's Marvel's so-called "lost generation"? It's John Byrne (plotter/artist) and Roger Stern's (plotter/scripter) version of the Marvel Universe which occurred between 1955 and 1961 (in real time), and I'll tell you right up front: it's one big, 12-
Two articles about sci-fi movies appeared in my news feed which I found interesting -- and, of course, wanted to argue about. Who better to argue with than my fellow Legionnaires?
Marvel announced some of its post-Krakoa plans for the X-Men at SXSW, which promptly made it all over the Internet. Here's a Bleeding Cool article about it, from which I'm going to liberally swipe.
VOLUME 3: Journey into Mystery #111-120 & Annual #1:
"Thor" really begins for me circa #112-113. The first volume of Marvel Masterworks Thor was a real slog to get through, largely becuse of too much non-Kirby art and lackluster plots; volume two was
I'm sure that I'm not the first person that has thought of this, but it just occurred to me that the "Earth-616" version of Gwen Stacy first appeared in a comic cover-dated December 1965, and was "killed" in a comic cover-dated June 1973, whereas
I put in as many as I could think of and find information about. I'm sure that I missed a few obvious ones, so feel free to suggest ones if you don't find them. I usually went with the broadcast date of the first episode. For the ones set in other t
A British officer murders a German civilian at the end of World War II after using him to find some Nazi gold, and retires comfortably to Jamaica. James Bond a
