With its 41st anniversary just a week past, the saying “Star Trek Lives!” has never been more true. The franchise has spent the year retooling and gearing up for a major relaunch in late 2008. The details, though, get murky as people mix rumor with fact. We here at ComicMix are happy to help divide…
Comics Links The ACLU has a new online comic to explain its mission: Defenders of Freedom. (I would have used a panel from one of their stories to illustrate this post but – irony of ironies – it’s left-click disabled, locked down tight by proprietary software. So, instead, you get the very first Google image…
Here’s a new picture of Harrison Ford and his on-screen son Shia Labeouf from next May’s unnamed fourth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise (working title: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods). From the looks of it, the story seems to take place in the late 50s/early 60s and gives us an old…
Now, where were we…? Oh yeah. We were discussing continued stories and I was telling you that continued characters have been around a long time, since the classic Greek dramatists at least, but continued stories were a pretty recent phenomena. You might recall my claim that Julie Schwartz and Stan Lee introduced them to comics,…
Jim Broadbent will be joining is joining Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt, Ray Winstone and some guy named Harrison Ford in the fourth Indiana Jones movie, according to an announcement on Lucasfilm Ltd.‘s Indiana Jones website. The movie, which is currently in production, is scheduled for release May 22, 2008. Sean Connery will not…
Yeah okay, y’all are still talking about Barbarella, aren’t you? Sorry, the original had some cute ideas but gah, was it sexist! Talk to me when she’s properly dressed and Simon LeBon’s cast as Duran Duran. Now here’s what I’m craving — a bit of the ol’ Get Smart. USA today has a blurb about…
You can’t make a pop-culture classic without Ray Winstone. At least, that’s what the BBC is reporting. Veteran character actor Ray Winstone is rumored to be the newest addition to next year’s Indiana Jones film. Winstone has appeared in Batman Begins and The Chronicles of Nania, in addition to The Departed, Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain,…
The first ComicMix podcast is now available for your listening pleasure! A three-times weekly feature here at ComicMix, broadcaster Mike Raub has produced our initial 12 minute program featuring news, features and interviews. A new podcast will be available every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday — today’s podcast includes a look at new comics that are…
