#11
In this weeks ATFMB podcast, I talk about scifi television, including the renewal of Fox hit Fringe for a 3rd season, Chuck’s ratings win that might mean a 4th season and how i09 has a list of 25 books Hollywood should be making movies out of, how HBO has greenlit a new series based on [...]
Comic Books
If you’ve been hanging out here on the blog or on my twitter feed, you know by now that I am a huge comic book geek. I once had a monthly habit that was the equivalent of a car payment. Not a nice car. Not even a good car. Probably more like an ‘ok’ [...]
Star Trek The No-Win Scenario (Star Crossed)
One of the things I wanted to talk about with the whole Star Trek Comics at DC thing, was the treatment of Kirk in the Academy, and his solution to the Kobayashi Maru as detailed in the three issue story arc called ‘Star Crossed’.
In the beginning of Star Trek [...]
Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise. Its mission; to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out, new life and new civilizations, to boldly go, where no man has gone, before…
This was the beginning to what has become the most iconic science fiction television series of all time – and [...]
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
In honor of the DVD release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about the Joes lives in the comics.
Specifically, I’m talking about the Marvel series that ran from the early 80’s into the mid 90’s, something like 155 issues. It was [...]
When it comes to Daredevil – I am not an expert by any means. I know that most hardcore comic book fans put Daredevil on the kind of pedestal guitar fans reserve for the likes of Eric Clapton – but I never quite got it.
The majority of my exposure to DD came in the form [...]
Before Hal Jordan or John Stewart, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner came along, there was another Green Lantern. The Original.
Born in the ‘Golden Age of Comics’ (1930’s-1940’s), this Green Lantern was more magical than SciFi. His name was Alan Scott.
Alan’s story is different. Created in the late 30’s/early 40’s by Martin Nodell, The Green Lantern’s [...]