Similar Posts
Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Iraq
During a recent edition of "In Character," NPR’s series of reports on "fictional but influential people," reporter Jamie Tarabay explains why she was able to maintain her sanity during assignment in Iraq thanks to the adventures of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. According to Tarabay, the "hellmouth" Buffy and Co. lived around and found themselves continually…
Tonight on RiffTrax Live– Mike Grell???
This is your chance to see Mike Grell on the big screen… if you’re strong enough!
How I came up with the idea behind “Once Upon A Deadpool.” No, really.
How I found myself at the center of an internet storm where every entertainment news site and blog I’ve ever heard of has been debating how I predicted the framing device (and selling point) of the new ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ recut of Deadpool 2, several months before the writers wrote even it.
Smurfs Turn 50
What sort of pop culture website would ComicMix be if we did not salute the 50th anniversary of The Smurfs? That’s right, it was on this day that Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s (a.k.a. Pierre Culliford) first published drawings featuring those blue cuties. It all began in 1952 when the artist began a strip called Johan et…
Filling The Big Shoes, by Mike Gold
After much discussion with friends and the unwashed and bewildered, today I have decided to weigh in (again) on one of the many ongoing and irresolvable debates that have haunted the hallowed halls of comics academia since time immemorial. The question: when the instigator of a series retires from his or her creation, should…
Happy Birthday: Insect Queen
Lana Lang was one of teenaged Clark Kent’s closest friends, and Superboy’s biggest fan—he was romantically interested in her as well, and she was sometimes referred to as “Superboy’s girlfriend.” Lana was a normal human girl with no powers of her own—until one May 16th when she rescued an insectoid alien from a fallen tree….
