Vampires are everywhere these days. But long before we had Team Edward and the litany of prissy emo vampires that sparkle in the G-D sun… we had real vampires. They were in popular books, TV Shows, comic books, movies made from popular books, adaptations of comic books turned into movies, and even a comic book…
On this day, everybody thinks they’re Irish, but here are six superheroes that actually are– and a few of them may surprise you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXPJSHEIXQ
So we posted the now-viral image of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber… …and something was tickling in the back of my brain that I’d seen it before, but I couldn’t figure out where. Then I got a note from Andrew Zubko. Andrew is currently coloring a new project for us called The Inner…
Valentine’s Day can be a lovely little holiday, can’t it? You and your sweetie exchange little trinkets of love… romantic candle lit dinners… kanoodling on the futon while you watch DVR’ed episodes of Doctor Who… you know, all that gushy stuff. But we know for some out there, the day is just another in a…
And then one day you find ten years (and two weeks) have got behind you… Since everybody thinks it’s the end of the decade, we’ll do a recap of the decade to go along with our recaps of 2009. This is by no means a definitive list of “the best of the decade”, just our…
Six more windows to close… at this rate, I’ll be down to only two hundred open windows by the end of the year. Sigh… Batman’s interspecies film career. (Oh, come on– we already have bats and robins together, this isn’t that much worse, right?) Email from Doctor Doom. No, really: I do not speak melodramaticaly….
Six quickies: Get your Christmas Bond marathon started early: YouTube is running all of the 1967 version of
With the holidays fast approaching, the question becomes: what do you get for the comic-loving gamer in your household? Well, here are some of the best releases from this year to satiate their comic-gaming lust and keep you looking like the know-it-all Santa. From purely comic-related titles to one of the year’s best surprises for…
After growing up from the little science-fiction show Gene Roddenberry created in the 1960s, the venerable Star Trek franchise in recent years had just about worn out its welcome in the eyes of all but its most devoted followers. Enter J.J. Abrams and his high-octane, supercharged re-imagining of the classic series, resulting in one of…
If you’ve ever visited Smith magazine, you’ve probably been there for the great comics (A.D.: After the Deluge, The Pekar Project, Next-Door Neighbor, Graphic Therapy, Shooting War, and My Home Birth) and their innovative Six Word Memoirs. Inspired by the famous anecdote of Ernest Hemingway telling a complete story in only six words (“For Sale:…
With the Chicago Comic-Con and WorldCon both around the bend, you may be tempted to waste your days away at the panels off the main floor. But I say, gentle geeks… NAY! Why waste your precious con time in stuffy rooms with stale ice water and tons of other mouth-breeders, when you can peruse the…
If you’re like us, you couldn’t possibly have seen everything going on at the San Diego Comic-Con– but luckily, enough people with cameras did see everything (almost) and are willing to share.Here are the must-see videos from last week: Kevin Smith on Twilight fans: You may have heard it got a bit ugly at the…
