When I wrote Creative Couplings and wrote the first Klingon Jewish wedding ceremony, I put a cute bit in about a Klingon Klezmer band playing at the reception. About a month before the book came out, I found out that there actually was a Klingon Klezmer band. With that in mind, I present to you…
There’s more on STARGATE UNIVERSE including Robert Carlyle explaining why he took a dive intp series television, and Ming Nah on playing one of the few openly gay characters in SF TV. Plus ZOMBIELAND jumps to the top of the Box Office, while STAR TREK and WOLVERINE slip off the chart. PRESS THE BUTTON to…
After a rocky first season that ended with the letter writing campaign to save [[[Star Trek]]] from cancellation, the second season opened in a horrible Friday night time slot but was a stronger series. Creator Gene Roddenberry continued to oversee everything as an Executive Producer but John Meredith Lucas took over as the line producer,…
Author Thomas Wolfe told us you can’t go home again. That certainly hasn’t stopped a lot of folks from trying. After an absence of nearly 30 years, Tom Baker finally returned to the role of the Doctor in the five-part, six-hour BBC full-cast [[[Doctor Who]]] audio play, Hornet’s Nest. The first part, [[[The Stuff of…
On this day in 1921 the Great Bird Of The Galaxy, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, was born in El Paso, Texas. Gene was known as a writer for Dragnet, Naked City, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Lieutenant, The Questor Tapes, Genesis II, Planet Earth, and Strange New World. Oh, all right, Star Trek, Earth: Final Conflict,…
So your parents loved Robert Downey, Jr. in Iron Man but don’t think comics themselves have anything to offer? Your friends loved V for Vendetta and The Dark Knight and are curious to read comics now but aren’t sure where to start? This is the show to help them all out. Starring yours truly and New…
The third annual presentation of the International Association of Media-Tie-in Writers (IAMTW) “Scribe” awards just went down at San Diego Comic-Con, honoring the best and the brightest in the world of property tie-ins. Awards are voted on by members of the organization. “These writers, highly prized by fans, receive few reviews and little acclaim, and…
Mark Waid started it: using an empty wheelchair as a shopping cart. Vinnie Bartilucci ran with it: More than 3 copies of any single comic in an autograph line Wearing a costume covering less than (Square foot of fabric / weight) % of body Camping out in a seat for an event three panels hence…
TWILIGHT is finally headed to comics and it will be manga, HARRY POTTER kicks DARK KNIGHT off the Box Office Record Chart and a 21st Century STAR TREK DVD is coming. Oh yeah, ComicCon is here in FIVE days! PRESS THE BUTTON to Get The Point! And be sure to stay on The Point via…
I told them they were going to have to spray for those things, now they’re everywhere… So to promote season 2 of the original Star Trek on BluRay, Paramount is looking for pictures of people with their Tribbles. There’s no way this ends well… the best case scenario is that somebody’s going to grab a…
If there was ever a video that summed up everything we cover at ComicMix– politics, Star Trek, probing questions, PC vs. Mac, and of course comics and geek culture– this video might be it. It’s John Hodgman’s headlining speech at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner. Watch it. You’ll feel better afterward. Hat tip:…
It is most logical for Paramount Home Video to be flooding the shelves with product capitalizing on the release of [[[Star Trek]]]. We’ve been treated to the various Best Of sets, the first season of the original series and now the first six feature films all making their Blu-ray debut. The first question is always,…
