My favorite superhero TV show these days is The Flash. Heck, it may be my favorite TV show period. Grant Gustin is doing a great job as Barry Allen/The Flash and the stories have wonderful “Easter eggs” for those who know DC continuity. One of the best is casting John Wesley Shipp, who played Barry/Flash…
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Dennis O’Neil: Commissioner Gordon, Here And There
The new television season has begun. (Goody goody gumdrops?) With only two superhero shows displaying their wares, it’s a bit early to comment on innovations, trends and outrages, whatever causes to hurl an anvil at the screen or curl up next to it and purr. Of the two returnees, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD seems to…
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The Point Radio: Buckle Up For More UNREAL
Lifetime’s critically acclaimed series, UNREAL is back with a new season starting tonight. Series stars Constance Zimmer and Shiri Appleby talk about what fans can expect and what the reaction has been from actual reality TV shows. Plus summer blockbusters are hitting every weekend and Fandango’s Alicia Malone gives us a guide of just what…
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Marc Alan Fishman: To Err Is Inhuman
TV has been so very good to us lately, has it not? Last week, I talked about Gotham. Making the rounds this week with the newly-coined label mid-season finale came both Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and DC’s The Flash. And boy howdy, could two shows be any more different. The dichotomous execution of these shows…
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The Point Radio: Scotty Auckerman Writes Funny
Chances are something that made you laugh in the past year was probably written by Scott Auckerman. From The Emmys to COMEDY BANG BANG and BETWEEN TWO FERNS, Scott is on the edge of creating comedy that generates buzz. We talk about how he got started, what The Emmys were really like and how it…
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Ed Catto’s Conversation with Steven Grant
As part of my ongoing series exploring today’s creators’ reactions to their comic creations’ successful crossovers into other media, this week I reached out to Steven Grant. His impressive career includes reviving Marvel’s The Punisher, creating characters like Whisper and writing the long running comics industry column, Permanent Damage. Ed Catto: Your 2 Guns comic…
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Martha Thomases Reviews Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Lucky for me, it was the “friends and family” screening of <a href=” Age of Ulton. First of all, I was lucky because I got to go. I was lucky to hear Joe Quesada introduce the film, not only because he was amusing but he was gracious enough to thank the event planners before he…
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Marc Alan Fishman: Agents of Angst
A caveat before I dig in: I’ve not seen this week’s episode of Agents of SHIELD (and screw typing all those periods!). That being said, I doubt the snark I’m about to wield will be undone over one episode. In fact, I bet my beard on it. But I digress. With the ending of the…
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John Ostrander: So How Was It For You?
We’re now well into the new TV season and there were a number on new shows to which I was looking forward as well as some returning ones. I’ve now seen at least one of each and have formed some opinions. Since that’s what this column is all about, off we go. On the returning…
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Marc Alan Fishman: Gotham Is Close, But So Far Away…
… from being what it could be. In short, they’re uncertainty is palpable, and it’s sickening to watch week to week. For the uninitiated: Gotham creates a timeline in which a young James Gordon arrives in the titular city right as Bruce Wayne’s parents are murdered. The city that will one day be protected by…
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Mindy Newell: Ho-Hum Heroics
Im-not-so-ho, the best thing about The Flash is Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West and John Wesley Shipp as Barry’s father. Im-not-so-ho, the best things about Gotham are Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, and Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald “Penguin” Cobblepot. Im-not-so-ho, the best things about Marvel’s Agents Of…
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The Point Radio: AGENTS OF SHIELD And All Things Marvel
We are back with the cast of AGENTS OF SHIELD to talk about how they planned ahead for the events which unfolded in CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER and what it is like to live, eat and breathe all things Marvel. Plus we start our coverage of New York Comic Con with a preview of some…
