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
I pretty much ignored the "Marvel Knights" version of Daredevil, which lasted 119 issues. Honestly, I had been "pretty much ignoring" Daredevil since Frank Miller left (the second time). The longer I stay away from a series the less likely it is for
M sends Bond to assassinate a killer for hire working in Latin America as a test to see if he is mentally healthy enough to return to service after his brainwashing
