My son Pat has a confirmed internship at an undetermined movie studio this summer, and he just had a 45 minute phone interview with a major studio. He'll be happy with any studio, of course, but this one mentioned a salient point of relevance to thi
Read more…So the one thing that struck me when reading Siege #3... ...am I really supposed to believe that the Fantastic Four and the X-Men were just standing around watching this humongous superhuman battle on TV without feeling any obligation to do anything
Read more…Obituary
Another old icon gone. The funny thing is, I never saw him in the roles he was famous for, but remember him from his brief but memorable cameo in the film Them!, which starred James Arness, brother of the late Peter Graves.
My comic book club (which is almost three years old now!) is picking the next six months or so of titles, and I needed to pick the boards' brain on a few titles. The ones we're voting on are: Fables: Legends in Exile Zot! Swamp Thing: Love and Death
Read more…One of the seminal moments in television history was the debut, and quick demise, of You're In the Picture, a game show hosted by Jackie Gleason that is most famous for two things: One, it was canceled after its first episode, and, two, for the secon
Read more…As I mentioned in Chris Fluit's blog post "Is there a Bronze Age of Comics?", I define eras in different ways for different companies, instead of defining a Silver, Bronze, Copper, Platinum, or whatever for the overall industry. It's my own personal
Read more…Downtown Comics in Indy has it today...I have to think other comic shops will, too.
Read more…TwoMorrows has posted a preview PDF here (warning: Link triggers PDF download).
Looks pretty good!
Thanks to a 50 cent box, I finally read my first issue of this. It was smack dab in the middle of some long story, and Hercules wasn't even in it. Question: is the whole series THIS AMAZINGLY GOOD? Really, I loved it.
Followup question: Does annyone h
What a great issue! So much development in terms of plot and character.
The new(ish) "More Than Complete Action Philosophers!" volume has 20 pages/4 stories of new material, as indicated in many places.
But does anyone happen to know WHICH ones are the new ones?
So...
One of the questions routinely asked is how much does a price increase boost the overall profit of a book. Well I actually took a look at one this time around: Ultimate Spider-man relaunched as Ultimate Comics Spider-man. I was looking at the Marvel
Read more…Gee ... no chatter about the Oscars?
On the old board, I once asked for input from Planetary fans on what made the series so special. I had acquired the first collection in a swap, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Mrs. Beyond, on the other hand, loved it. Doc Brass and the oth
Read more…Dragon*Con announced today that Garret Wang (aka Harry Kim from Star Trek: Voyager) is the new director of Star Trek programming for the convention. For the past 16 years, Trek Trak was run by Eric L. Watts, a long-time Trek fan. Apparently, he was r
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