LOST Veterans Elizabeth Sarnoff and Jack Bender join us to talk about their role in the new Fox series, ALCATRAZ, plus more with Jorge Garcia and Sarah Jones. DC drops the axe on 6 New 52 titles and Mark Millar creatures a universe.
The Vertigo Encyclopedia By Alex Irvine DK Publishing, September 2008, $29.99 There are few ways to produce a traditional encyclopedia, usually beginning with an alphabetical listing. Most come with illustrations and are written in an academic style with little in the way of adjectives let alone opinions. Graphic presentation may be the key difference between…
Like everyone else, I watch too much TV and see the occasional movie or read a book or two and I have my own reactions to them. Here’s some of what I’ve seen, good bad and indifferent. Boss, on Starz starring Kelsey Grammar as a tough mayor of Chicago. I’m an old time Chicago boy…
Before you give your hard-earned money to Gary Groth and Kim Thompson for their recently announced Fantagraphics Legal Defense Fund, you should know a few facts about publishing companies and their insurance obligations. Fact #1: It is highly unlikely that a company the size of Fantagraphics isn’t covered by a standard publishers insurance policy for…
NEWS. FLASH!! FLASH GORDON : THE VENGEANCE OF MING COMING SEPTEMBER 2011INVASION OF THE RED SWORD TPB – COMING THIS FALL 2011 With the next exciting Flash Gordon series on the launching pad (The Vengeance of Ming #1 – due September ’11), Ardden can also reveal that its Collected Edition of The Mercy Wars is…
One of the joys of the current Blu-ray era is that studios have been delving into their libraries and restoring gems, releasing them with varying degrees of love and care. We’ve recently seen, for example, the arrival of musical greats West Side Story and My Fair Lady. But studios have also been working to bring…
Marvel has had varying degrees of success with the direct-to-video efforts but the program continues and there’s little surprise that the most recent offering featured Wolverine, given the release this week of [[[X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]]. What is odd is that Lionsgate chose to release the video Hulk Vs. in January, too late for the holidays…
