Comic Book Club re-forms to discuss “House of X”/”Powers of X”, a paired set of comics miniseries that are an exciting new take on the X-Men. If you’re an old-school mutant fan who has been out of the business for years (like Jason), these 12 issues are a great read. ...
Astrid. Baron Mordo unexpectedly turned up alive to attack Dr. Strange once more in The Amazing Spider-Man #500 (2003), written by J. Michael Straczynski, who also penned a revised version of Dr. Strange's origin, featuring Mordo, in the miniseries Strange (2004–2005). In television anim...
”Peaky Blinders” (with the late great Helen McRory), “The Expanse”, “Mindhunter”, “The Alienist” (which now includes a second season based on the “Angel Of Darkness” novel) “The Pillars Of The Earth” miniseries based on Ken Follet’s excellent novel, “CB Strike” based on...
(The miniseries it’s based on is literally titled “Welcome Back, Frank.”) Admittedly, the best material in The Punisher comes from that book, with its sardonic wit and comically gruesome violence. But the movie needed a villain that matched that tone, not John Travolta and his jealous, ...
Many of us were unaware of his influence on the sounds we heard as young people, from the soundtracks to Sanford & Son and Ironside to the Roots miniseries. We all knew about his genius in helming our introduction to The Brothers Johnson (Look Out for #1, Right On Time), the breakout...
“eclipsed” eye. Possessed of Eclipso's dark spirit from an earlier expedition to Diablo Island in the South Pacific, the heroic Gordon struggled against the demon within in House of Secrets for three years, with Gordon's ally Professor Simon Bennett and his daughter Mona (Bruce's girlfriend...
[75] With the Beatles became the second album in UK chart history to sell a million copies, a figure previously reached only by the 1958 South Pacific soundtrack.[76] When writing the sleeve notes for the album, the band's press officer, Tony Barrow, used the superlative the "fabulous ...
Wikipedia states that KODIAK was canceled after the first episode, although a total of four episodes were aired. Also stated is that the production locations were in Alaska and the last episode aired on October 4, 1974. This is all misinformation. Although, on the same page where it reads ...
Also, it only says that because I changed the time zone setting for the blog from UTC to Pacific time which changed my streak when it recalculated it. The count should be around 1,522, but I posted the occasional item for the next day before midnight Pacific time so the changing of th...
almost finished withThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. In her introduction, the editor said she felt the most important piece in the book was “The Really Big One” by Kathryn Schulz. (SeeThe New Yorkerversion from 2015,“The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest...