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There’s only one thing in the universe more awesome than zombies. Zombies with power rings. This year’s big event from DC Comics is the Blackest Night miniseries and its tie-ins. Yes, I know it’s easy to get burned out on big events when they occur far too often and so often fail to live up… Read More Review: Blackest Night #1
The third season of the groundbreaking British science fiction television show Torchwood arrives as a five-part miniseries broadcast across five nights. It’s easily the best five episode bloc the show has ever put together, and just might be one of the best single seasons a science fiction show has given us in a long time.… Read More Review: Torchwood: Children of Earth
In Batman and Robin, writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely–the team responsible for Flex Mentallo, New X-Men, We3, and All Star Superman–reunite for the next chapter in the Batman saga. Bruce Wayne is believed to be dead. After Gotham City falls into chaos without the presence of the Dark Knight, Dick Grayson, the original… Read More Reviews: Batman and Robin #1-2 / Batman #687 / Detective Comics #854
It’s a big dumb action movie, but as big dumb action movies go, it’s reasonably entertaining. Two years after the events of the first film, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is off to college, leaving behind girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox), parents Ron and Judy (Kevin Dunn and Julie White), and his Autobot Bumblebee, but college brings… Read More Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
I love how the women are portrayed on these old science fiction magazine covers.
Batman. The Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight. Whatever name he’s known by, this month marks the 70th anniversary of his first appearance in Detective Comics #27, cover dated May 1939. It was standard practice at the time for an issue to be released up to two months prior to the cover date, so the issue… Read More Happy 70th Birthday, Batman!
From the “oh, hell no” news department… The makers of the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer film want to reboot the franchise as a new film without the participation of Joss Whedon. It would be a remake of the film instead of the television show, but still. Clearly they forgot that they nearly killed the… Read More Buffy: Oh, Hell No
Little known 21-year-old Scottish actress/model Karen Gillan has been cast as the Eleventh Doctor’s companion for the 2010 season of Doctor Who. She previously had a small role as a soothsayer in the 2008 episode “The Fires of Pompeii”. New showrunner Steven Moffat stated that numerous actresses were auditioned, but as soon as she “walked… Read More Doctor Who: Welcome the Future
The fourth film in the Terminator franchise may not be on the same level as the first two directed by James Cameron, but it’s miles above the weak third film and actually feels like a legitimate follow-up to Cameron’s films and ideas. Fourteen years after the nuclear apocalypse of Judgment Day when Skynet launched its… Read More Review: Terminator Salvation
The best thing about Star Trek? Paramount is using the film’s release to essentially declare this Star Trek Year, and is going to treat fans to lots of goodies on Blu-Ray, starting with the release of Star Trek: The Original Series. They digitally restored the picture and audio for TOS, and by all accounts this… Read More Star Trek: Boldly Going to Blu-Ray
