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
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
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.
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
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
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
In the past, we've discussed our comics reading habits: the wheres, whens, how manys and for how longs. Well, over the last several weeks, Saturday morning breakfast time has become my favorite time to read comics. Mrs. Beyond and I usually have the
"Revenge of the Reach," the first of five brand new episodes to air in January, airs this Friday at 7:30p (E/P) and Saturday at 8:30p (E/P)! Featuring the Challengers of the Unknown, Starro, Evil Star, Blue Beetle, the Reach, Guy Gardner, and the Gre