With apologies to T.S. Eliot, April was not the cruelest month in terms of Marvel Comics’ Star Wars offerings. It wasn’t wholly kind, either. And let’s face it: No Star Wars comic book this month…
Next year, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will pit DC Comics’ two biggest superheroes against each other. For now, the teaser trailer released last Friday (in an anticlimactic unveiling of an event already eclipsed…
I think the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is fantastic. I’ve seen it several times since it hit the Internet yesterday afternoon, as you probably have, too. Each time, it makes…
If you’re looking for Christ figures in Star Trek, Worf may not be the first character who comes to mind. He’s certainly more violent than Jesus. Imagine the bloodbath if Worf had gone after those…
When I heard that Disney plans to film a live-action Winnie the Pooh, I thought I missed an April Fools’ Day joke. But no! In its apparent quest to remake its entire catalog of animated…
Right now, my seven-year-old daughter is a huge Star Wars Rebels fan. She’s been watching and rewatching the first season; for a week after the season finale aired, she watched it three times a day….
I never followed the Star Wars Expanded Universe (now “demoted” to “Legends” status), but I have been following the Disney/Lucasfilm story group’s efforts to create a coherent pre-Episode VII canon, at least in the Marvel…
Today would have been Leonard Nimoy’s 84th birthday. When he died last month, news outlet after news outlet, in its search for appropriate footage, seemed to reach for Spock’s death scene from the end of…
I confess: Today, I’m cheating. Instead of sticking to one great Shatner and Nimoy Star Trek moment, I’m recommending three. Watch these clips one after the other, and then we’ll talk (sans “colorful metaphors”). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPztpGBrfD8…
It’s the episode that established the goatee as the tell-tale facial hair of evil doppelgangers everywhere! An ion storm causes the transporter to swap Kirk and the rest of his landing party with their sinister…
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