As promised in my last column, this week is about bi-erasure in comics. Itâs come up too often as of late and deserves its own column rather than being crammed into an already dense essay on critiques of Icemanâs coming out. Itâs a problem that extends beyond the comics themselves, and has reached the TV…
When your father is a god, your life is bound to be pretty interesting. As a result, it is never less than astonishing how often the story of Hercules ignores the rich source material, transplanting the demigod to whatever environment is currently in vogue with diminished results. Twice this year, we were treated to variant…
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – “Fast-paced and packed with eye-popping action” (Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News), Paramount Pictures’ and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ wildly entertaining epic adventure HERCULES debuts on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack and DVD November 4, 2014 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD October 21. Global…
Founded in 2007, Radical Studios is a multimedia company that incubated comic books for exploitation in other forms. Among their earliest releases was Hercules, boasting a Steranko cover, and it came with high production values and a bit of a buzz., The character returned for a second miniseries in and this interpretation captured Hollywood’s fancy….
ClarifyingWe reported earlier this week that Legendary Heroes was going to release Hercules and Xena on Blu-ray in 2009 but TV Shows on DVD received word from Davis-Panzer, the production company saying, “We don’t have any plans for Xena or Hercules on Blu-ray; right now we are just doing pre-orders from Season One of Highlander…
All but admitting that replacing the Hulk in his own book with Hercules was a mistake, Marvel is trying to rectify the problem by spray-painting Herc green. It’s clearly a rushed and uneven job, as paint seems to be collecting in big drips under his chi– –beg pardon? This is something about a Skrull invasion?…
Hercules. By most comics fans’ standards, he’s not the biggest draw in the longbox OR on the shelves. So what is he doing with his own series? More accurately, what’s he doing on the cover of one of Marvel’s most popular characters’ series? Over at IGN, the Incredible Herc creative team of Greg Pak and…
