Closing windows on our desktops so you can you open them on yours. Here we go… Chernin Group Takes Majority Stake in Anime Website Crunchyroll | Variety Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana according to 1995: No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and…
November will be a very busy month for Lionsgate as they launch the highly anticipated adaptation of the controversial Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game. A few weeks later they top that with the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second chapter in the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ stunning trilogy. On th eoff-chance…
Did you see me there? Where’s there? Oh, come on…The San Diego Comic-Con! Where else? And, as I type this on Monday evening, are you perhaps just getting home. Are you frazzled? Exhausted? And are you happy? Was the adventure all you’d hoped it might be? Do you have, encased in plastic and two slabs…
Kelly Sue DeConnick posted this on her Tumblr this morning. Reading the question I was saddened and angered but not surprised. In industries that have a history of being a boys club, it’s not unusual to assume females are there either because of sleeping their way in or being the token female and therefore inferior…
So Microsoft debuted the XBOX One this week and the video game fanboys dropped trou and prayed to Lord Gates. With it, the next generation of consoles are all spec’ed out, and being built by poor children of other countries. Err, I mean by robots. Yes. Souless, never-hungry robots. Perhaps it’s a sign of the…
I think I know what I liked about Tony Stark when I first encountered him back in Cape Girardeau. I was a cheap-seats journalist who was just rediscovering comic books after forgetting about them for more than a decade, spinning the rack at the drug store, scanning the displays in the bus terminal, killing time…
Tumblr is a micro-blogging site, tending more towards short posts with pictures and video attachments, and with over a hundred million blogs (including mine), it is officially more popular than blogging itself. It’s populated by an amazing assortment of creativity and madness. Memes flower and spread with a speed heretofore unseen (seriously, go look up…
With less than two months to go before Star Trek Into Darkness opens in theaters, the Paramount marketing machine has been busy. Here are the updates for the week including activities at the movie’s app and the spoiler-rich International Trailer. Star Trek App Mission: Scan the “Space Invader Art” at Subliminal Projects Using cutting-edge image…
http://techland.time.com/2013/02/11/dick-tracys-watch-the-most-indestructible-meme-in-tech-journalism/ The newspaper-comics cop got his smartwatch in 1946. We’re still waiting for ours. Joe Staton, get right on this!
Using the new Doctor Who Limited Edition Gift Set, your noble author will make his way through as much of the modern series as he can before the Christmas episode, The Snowmen. A trip to the future, a return of a foe presumed dead (get used to THAT one) and a moral conundrum. And it…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock MANNIX By Michael Avallone Published by Popular Books, First Edition, 1968 It’s not every day you walk into your local pharmacy and someone hands you three books that you’d only heard about, but never actually expected to have. ÃÂ Now, these particular books wouldn’t be…
…when people are buying Bat-Contact Lenses?
