By Sam Christopher Chronologically: DC’s latest “Big Event” reaches its jumping off point in The Flash #12, titled simply “The Road to Flashpoint” Part Four. Here we have Bart and Barry Allen battling it out with the time-spanning cop known as… Barry Allen. Allen—the time cop from the alternate dimension—has decided that Allen—the boy from [...]
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Comic Book Reviews: First and Seconds from the Last Few Weeks
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New in Comics: Hellboy the Fury and More Flashpoint
Comics Due Out June 1st: Hellboy: The Fury #1 Dark Horse TFAW.com Product Description: War ensues between the forces of good and evil as Hellboy finally confronts the Queen of Blood one on one, setting the stage for a new chapter in Hellboy’s life! * Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo conclude an epic collaboration that [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Looking at this Summer’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows
By John J. Joex There was once a time when the Summer months offered nothing more than reruns and cast-off shows as far as television viewing is concerned. And while there’s still a fair amount of that, the cable channels have come to realize this is a great time to syphon off viewers from the [...]
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Sci Fi Trifles: Where Are They Now? Adam West and Burt Ward
Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror that will return each week, same Bat-channel, same Bat-time. Adam West and Burt Ward have worked their way into pop culture history for their portrayal of Batman and Robin in the campy 1960’s television series, but do you [...]
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New on DVD: SGU Season 2 and True Blood Season 3
DVDs Due Out May 31st: SGU: Stargate Universe – The Complete Final Season Description: This release offers all 20 episodes from the first season of the series STARGATE UNIVERSE. Younger in tone than previous STARGATE series, this sci-fi drama follows a group of scientists, soldiers, and ordinary people who are forced to travel through a [...]
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Sci Fi Trifles: Hey Kids, It’s Varney the Vampire!
Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror that will be not be scared off by garlic or crosses or trinkets like that. Of course we all know about Dracula, the vampire that Bram Stoker created and who starred in the infamous novel that has since [...]
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Sci Fi Ramblings: Looking Ahead at Next Season’s Shows, Do Rehashes and Mediocrity Rule?
By John J. Joex So another season has passed us by with the expected multiple cancellations along with several bubble shows barely making the cut. And at the upfronts, the networks announced their new lineups which include several genre shows hoping to be the next Lost or Vampire Diaries or Walking Dead. But is there [...]
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The Internet Connection: Interview with I Am Tim Creator Jamie Simcox
I Am Tim is a mockumentary web series following Tim Helsing who is the last remaining descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the guy who offed the original Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel and has since shown up in any of a number of horror stories, comics, movies, etc. However Tim does not quite match up [...]
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Video Finds: Gargoyles (1972)
By Paul S. White Rating: 4 ½ out of 5 Stars Way back in the early 70’s, an interesting made for TV movie showed up on the small screen called Gargoyles. It appeared to be a pilot for a television series or planned to run across multiple movies, though apparently it did not pull high [...]
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Why Weren’t They Cancelled? Fringe, Chuck, Nikita, and Supernatural
By John J. Joex Ten genre shows got the axe or ended this past season (several deservedly so and you can read about that at this link), but four that flirted with the network executioner survived. How did they manage to live on when the others got the boot? Read on. Fringe (FOX) – Hey, [...]
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