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The TV series Heroes is bound and determined to rope in not only the mainstream audience garnered by its intricate serial plotline(s), but the comics cognoscenti and related fan hobbyists whence its genre fiction originates. First Christopher Eccleston ("Dr. Who"), then George Takei ("Star Trek"), and now Stan Lee ("The Man") will make a cameo…
The past few days of comic news has been a wowza of roller coaster articles and announcements. I spent hours trying to decide what topic to tackle. Which sucked. A lot. It was way too difficult to settle for one tidbit to chat about. Then I realized, “My column, my format!” I also realized that…
Seasons may change but great comics and DVDs hit the stores every week, and The Big ComicMix Broadcast covers the latest list right here. Plus news of more "gold" comics from A/C’s Men of Mystery series, Spike TV unveils some rotten reality programming and Warren Ellis gives you a second chance at Black Summer. Meanwhile,…
Global Frequency, the DC/Wildstorm comic, might be back in play as a TV series. You may remember that in 2005, Mark Burnett (producer of Survivor) and John Rogers (who would go on to write the comic Blue Beetle and create the show Leverage) created a pilot for the WB. The pilot wasn’t picked up; however,…
Pulp Ark 2012 doesn’t officially kick off until later today but organizer Tommy Hancock is reporting that the convention is off to a great start! In just the first few hours, more fans have come through the doors today than attended the entire weekend last year! In related news, sales are strong for those vendors…
In David Hajdu’s The Ten-Cent Plague, as well as in most other books about the golden age of comics, Fredric Wertham is used as an antagonist, that stuffy pseudo-psychologist who decided comic books made kids do evil things and helped topple the industry. Wetham wrote the best-selling Seduction of the Innocent, which purportedly proved that…