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‘Crazy Sexy Geeks’ returns with Edward James Olmos, Rob Zombie, and David Alan Mack
After a small hiatus, the geek talk series is back with a vengeance! This week, hosts Alan Kistler and Carrie Wright talk with Halloween director Rob Zombie, Battlestar Galactica and Blade Runner actor Edward James Olmos and novelist David Mack, talking about remakes, reboots and sequels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyS2z1pGwY And if you want to see what else…
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Come Join Us In THE FORTRESS OF AWESOME!
If you are looking for a place to hang out where you can ask your most inner-geek questions and pick up some cool comic trivia as well, then here’s your invite to hit THE FORTRESS OF AWESOME! Noted comic historian ALAN “Sizzler” KISTLER is your host and on tonite’s premiere show he covers everything from…
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Crazy Sexy Geeks Celebrates 70 Years of Marvel
In the second episode of Crazy Sexy Geeks, our new weekly series meant for both die-hard fans and people new to comics, hosts Alan Kistler and Carrie Wright head to Barnes & Noble and then Midtown Comics for a two-pronged celebration. It’s been 70 years since Marvel Mystery Comics #1 came out in 1939, featuring…
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Alan Kistler & friends win NYC Audience Award at 48 Hour Film Festival
From ComicMix contributor and all-around mensch Alan Kistler: I do the 48 Hour Film Festival where you’re given a genre, character name, characterprofession, prop, and a line of dialogue and have 48 hours to script it, film it, edit it and turn it in. It’s an international competition and this year we won the NYC…
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Star Trek Movie Annotations
The new Star Trek movie has been blowing people away, providing an introduction for new fans and an alternate time line that allows for even old fans to be surprised. Every article and review has mentioned how time travel is being used to explain/justify this reboot, this new take on things where old rules are…
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The Many Origins of Wolverine
If you’ve read ORIGIN: The Story of Wolverine, Weapon X and various issues of his own title and the X-Men books, then you know the basic background of the mysterious mutant called Logan and the secrets behind who he was in the past. It took many years to piece together, but we finally learned the…
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Happy Earth Day!
I’m running this image just to tick off Alan Kistler. He asked me for input on eco-aware comics characters. I mentioned Captain Planet. His response was… charged: HE SUCKED!He was not a character!He was a literal Deus Ex Machina.These kids have powers, and there are five of them, yet despite this, they eventually get too…
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NPR’s Studio 360: ‘Watchmen’ in pop culture
This week on NPR’s Studio 360, you’ll be hearing a roundtable discussion between Farscape comic writer Keith R.A. DeCandido, Star Trek author David Mack, comic book historian Alan Kistler, ethicist Alexandra Honigsberg, editor Jeness Crawford, ComicMix contributor Kim Kindya, and yours truly, discussing Watchmen and its impact on pop culture. It’s wide ranging and a…
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Road to Ultimatum
Last week, Marvel released a free comic enitlted March on Ultimatum Saga, a basic guide to the history of the Ultimate Marvel Earth and its heroes. Although one or two of the facts reported are in question (as I discussed in my article Where Have All The Editors Gone?), it is an appropriate release when…
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Marvel Ready to Rock Fan Expectations
The recent Ultimate Origins mini-series has been delving into the past of the Ultimate Marvel Universe. Now at last, we’ve learned how many of the heroes and super-humans of this reality are related and interconnected. We’ve learned the startling secrets of the creation of the mutant gene and Mutant Zero, we’ve seen the initial transformation…
