Memorial Day 2009


Take the time today to remember them in your own way.


Take the time today to remember them in your own way.
Optimus Prime gets a parking ticket in New York City during the Toy Fair. Choose your punch line: That’s really keeping in character. Robots in disguise, indeed. Bloomberg is really trying to get revenue. Hat tip: io9.
Last week, ComicMix commenter Alan Coil and I got into a brief discussion about what constitutes decent comic book sales. It is certainly fair for Alan to compare sales against current trends; I like to compare sales against sales potential in the marketplace. There’s a market for comic books. This is borne out by the…
In the right hands, the original Captain Marvel should be a children’s staple because the premise is so catchy for young readers: a young orphan is introduced to a wizard who bestows upon him the power of the gods. With one magic word, Billy Batson is transformed to Captain Marvel although these days, the legal…
In time for Halloween, Sci Fi Channel has announced a schedule that will include first-time airings of a six-pack from After Dark’s HorrorFest 2007. The eight films screened last November were marketed as Eight Films to Die For and all received limited play before being released on DVD on March 18. Of those eight, six…
Cover Art: Bob Hall Welcome back to Table Talk, a (wanna-be) weekly column where New Pulp authors Barry Reese, Bobby Nash and Mike Bullock babble on about whatever ricochets through their speakeasy. This week, the guys are still inhaling the euphoric fumes of rarified air that is the success of Tales of the Rook, the…
This is a weird one. As you may know, Doctor Who has been running since 1963. A number of the earlier episodes are missing, because some bozo at the BBC decided to save money by destroying some old episodes to make room in their library, including a number of episodes starring the first two Doctors,…
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If you happen to be near DC, perhaps a visit to the Black Wall would be in order.Of course, i chickened out on such a visit every time i've been in DC … i'm always afraid of whose name i might see.