Production began this week on the next Battlestar:Galactica TV movie and fans are rejoicing. However, there is one cast member who is still in shock that his character has survived this long. We talk to him and get a few bits of news on Caprica as well, plus: Death Note hits it big in NYC…
Marvel and Brian Michael Bendis have teased the follow up act to Secret Invasion – it’s Dark Region and with it comes some some major titles changes as well, plus: Tobey and Sam and Spider-Man 4 Seth McFarlane launches his web cartoons Chuck Dixon leads The Joes back to comics And we hit the comic…
In this space on Friday and Saturday, my esteemed colleagues Mr. Davis and Ms. Thomases waxed on about the political situation of the day. Whereas there is no more important issue facing us as Americans in this moment in time (and it has considerable impact on non-Americans as well), I will not follow in their…
Even if we are lucky enough to ever see another Serenity feature, there are far too many questions to be answered in one sitting. One of those is just who is Shepherd Book. Joss Whedon talks about why he chose character for a new Dark Horse mini-series, plus: Buffy gets an MMO, Firefly gets put…
John McCain, in what is assumed to be an attempt to woo feminist Hillary Clinton supporters, nominated an inexperienced first-term governor of Alaska as his running mate. In state-wide office less than two years, Sarah Palin includes in her resume a term as mayor of a small town, and a stint on her local PTA….
According to the media, lawyers are gearing up for a “frenzied fight” over the screen rights to the biggest graphic novel of all time, plus: Barack sells out at Image It’s now a world without Don LaFontaine Robert Englund tells us about the rebirth of V And on Saturday, catch ComicMix Radio as we are…
Humans have been fascinated by felines both big and small since the beginnings of recorded history. At times we’ve both worshipped them (as did the ancient Egyptians) and reviled them (as did medieval Europeans, thus opening themselves up to the spread of the Black Plague when the witchcraft-associated kitties weren’t around in sufficient numbers to…
Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! By Howard Chaykin Dynamic Forces, July 2008, $49.99 Science Fiction has never been quite as successful in comics form as it seemed it should have been. Oh, sure, there have been plenty of vaguely SFnal ideas and premises – from [[[Superman]]] to [[[Kamandi]]] to the [[[X-Men]]] to the [[[Ex-Mutants]]] –…
September roars in with a new TV season on the way, one of the year’s last big conventions just around the corner and our usual load of new comics and DVDS, plus: Gale Simone says she is pushing DC’s limits with The Secret Six Scott McCloud shines with Google Chrome Marc Guggenheim celebrates Eli Stone…
We’re all familiar with the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. They created Superman but nobody would buy it so it sat in a drawer for a few years until an editor remembered seeing the submission and thought it would fill out the first issue of a new title that was lacking a lead…
Our generation’s favorite Boogey Man, Robert Englund, tells us where he’s been hiding recently, where he thinks the horror genre is headed, as well as his choices for some cool recent films you may not have heard of, plus: Alan Moore comes to DVD Chuck gets some love from NBC The Hulk heads to DVD,…
This column is unusual in that I’m starting to write it in the doctor’s office. There’s no emergency – it’s just time for my annual mammogram and breast sonogram, and the doctors are running late. My appointment was for 11 this morning. I arrived at 10:30 because I walked faster than I expected, and because…
