Michael S. Poteet is a teaching elder (ordained minister) in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a freelance writer-researcher and wordsmith. His most recent publication is the youth study guide for Half Truths (Abingdon Press). Follow him on Twitter (@WriterMPoteet).
If seeing Man of Steel made you want to learn more about its central character, you could not ask for a better introduction than Glen Weldon’s breezy new biography of this 75-year-old icon of American…
The SFC’s Mike saw Man of Steel and offers these opening night reactions. (You can read Part 1 here.) Zod Man Out Michael Shannon has some impressive moments as General Zod—he conveys anger at his banishment…
The SFC’s Mike saw Man of Steel and offers these opening night reactions. The cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly promises the issue, in its package about Superman’s seventy-fifth anniversary, will address the topic of “Hollywood’s…
I didn’t read Super Boys. I devoured it. I tore through Brad Ricca’s engrossing new biography of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman, as though I’d never read anything about these two…
If Dan and Mike’s review of The Steam Engines of Oz left you wishing you could travel to that gaslamp-lit, foggy fairyland, here’s your chance! Thanks to the good folks at Arcana Comics, we have…
It’s a good year to be an Ozophile. Whether you liked Oz the Great and Powerful or not, you have to admit it’s not every year a major Ozzy motion pictures is in theaters. Oz…
Tolkien’s unfinished Arthurian epic is a moving narrative meditation on glory, loyalty, and fate—but not a story of hope. I’ve been a devotee of Arthurian legend since I was eight, when a visiting British relative…
The sci-fi geek community seems “thrusters on full” over this video of William Shatner reading Maurice Sendak’s then-groundbreaking children’s book Where the Wild Things Are to a group of youngsters at the recent Denver Comic Con. His…
Who’d have guessed a timey-wimey meditation on mortality would be so entertaining? The Whisper Men whispered lots of spooky stuff in this episode, but their most chilling oracle was this: “This man must fall as all men must; the fate…
At last! Series 7B finally delivered an episode that left me excited, enthusiastic about Doctor Who, and eager for more. From its riveting, retcon-riddled teaser (even a Who fan-come-lately like me got a kick out…
