Thursday, October 22, 2009

Too Many Vampires?

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MSNBC asks if there are too many vampire movies and TV shows. Their conclusion: While their popularity may ebb and flow, vampires always w...
Monday, October 19, 2009

The Raven

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In the early 1960s, American International pumped out a series of movies loosely based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and staring Vincen...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Coming IPhone App Crash

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Newsweek has an article on how few IPhone developers actually make money. This is probably the first part of a market shakedown. The math i...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Monty Python at 40

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40 years ago this month Monty Python started running on the BBC. A few years later it appeared in America on PBS. On the station I watched, ...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Peanuts

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50 years ago Peanuts started. It had a long run with the last new strip appearing the day of it's creator's death (Charles Shultz ha...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

FF Blogging - Galactus

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It's been a while but I got up to FF #48-50. Stan and Jack wanted to introduce something new - a character so powerful that he thought o...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Disney and Marvel

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Over the weekend Disney announced that it was buying Marvel for $4 billion. This is probably a good thing. For the short-term, it does not ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Netbooks, Microsoft and Apple

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(Taking a break from comic book blogging) Netbooks are currently the hottest part of the PC market. These are loosely defined as an low-cost...
Monday, August 03, 2009

More Anti-Hero Villains

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Continuing my last post... Marvel has a long history of noble villains who crossed over but still maintained most of their original characte...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Anti-hero villains

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I was just thinking about some of the early Marvel villains. I've always maintained that one of the reasons for Marvel's prominence ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

DRM and digital devices

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Two incidents have come up recently which illustrate the problems with modern electronic devices. The first happened with Amazon's Kindl...

Comic Con

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It is amazing how important Comic Con has become. A few years ago hardly anyone knew about it. Now it gets national attention. A good bit of...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Thor Rumors

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I'm seeing a lot of rumors about the upcoming Thor movie. Chris Hemsworth has been cast as Thor. He seems kind of young and thin for t...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Chrome OS

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Google announced that they will produce an operating system called Chrome OS to go with their Chrome web browser. The OS will come out somet...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Flash Gordon

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On the 4th of July Spike TV showed Star Wars and G4 showed Flash Gordon. What a contrast. Flash Gordon was one of a spate of science fiction...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Goodbye Michael

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On reflecting on the career of the late Michael Jackson, I have to start by saying that I hate child singers. Their voices grate on my nerve...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

FF blogging - the Inhumans

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Continuing my blogging on old issues of the Fantastic Four... I left off with the defeat of the Frightful Four. This was followed by an annu...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Land of the Lost II

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I haven't seen the Land of the Lost movie and I don't intend to so I can't offer a review of it. What I can do is review why I d...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Futurama Returns

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Futurama was created as a companion piece to the Simpsons. Originally Fox showed it immediately after the Simpsons but the later player with...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Land of the Lost

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Hanna-Barbera ruled Saturday morning with limited-animation cartoons. In the late-60s and early 70s they had som...
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