It’s not easy to make the Earth catch fire
Some years back, I finally bought the DVD for 1961’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire. I’d wanted to see this British film ever since reading about it in Bill …
Category: Science Fiction
Successfully scratched itches, part 3: Star Hawks
This used to be one of the most tantalizing itches that I wasn’t able to scratch for the longest time. I knew about the Star Hawks newspaper strip for decades, but only managed to read it once I got a hold of the gigantic complete collection book.
A comic you should own — well, if you don’t mind the story will never finish: MICRA
The indie B&W boom of the 1980s generated lots of horrible comics, like the several zillion TMNT knockoffs. It also generated some good stuff. MICRA, by Lamar Waldron and Ted …
Flying gorillas weren’t enough?
I assume the Gardner Fox/Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson story “The Flying Gorilla Menace” from Strange Adventures #125 was one of their “cover first, story later” creations. If so, they put far …
The T in James T. Kirk does not stand for tomcat
Even before Chris Pine gave us a hotheaded, womanizing Jim Kirk in the Star Trek reboot films, lots of people, including Star Trek fans, though of James Tiberius Kirk that …
Me, movies and movie books
So last week I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book, due next year, on Alien Visitors (working title): ET invaders, alien/human romance, friendly aliens, alien superheroes, aliens …
Not as deep as it thinks: Alex Garland’s Devs (with spoilers)
I doubt I’d bother to devote a whole post here to a series I didn’t care for if Devs wasn’t so convinced of its own depth. In the teaser for …