You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Millions of people gathered to watch the Super Bowl so they could see the football game of the year. (Sorry about that Broncos, better luck next time?) But geeks around the world waited through all that football stuff so we could get
Huge, epic books are fun, but sometimes it’s nice to grab a short book off the shelf. One can try something new, or return to a familiar world, without the long-term commitment of some of those frighteningly giant, phonebook-sized novels. (I’m looking at you, The Stand. And you, Atlas Shrugged.) With that in mind I
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Welcome to the first of our regularly scheduled live video podcasts from the Villainous Lair, recorded with full audience participation from all across the country! Join our heroes and heroine and special guest, comic-expert Chris Mitchell, as we take questions (and sometimes
What Firefly fans want most is not a second season that picks up ten years after the last episode. They don’t want a Serenity Two that meets up with our favorite characters a decade later. What fans want most is a second season that picks up exactly where season one left off; same characters, same
I’ve heard it said that the problem with writing science-fiction mysteries is that you have aliens or devices that don’t conform to all the rules of our world, but there still has to be a strong internal logic to the story. Otherwise the mystery doesn’t make sense; there isn’t a puzzle that can be revealed
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Anthony’s getting a new car! To celebrate, the podcast crew talks about their favorite geek cars: which prop car would you want to drive off the set, and which fantasy car would you have if it was a real thing? Along the
While there are several fun stories in Dark Horse Presents issue #32, available January 15, the story that caught my eye, the one I fell in love with, is Fred Van Lente and Reilly Brown’s “Saint George Dragonslayer: Part Three.” The art in those eight pages is worth the price of the whole book.
I heard the other day that Ridley Scott will soon begin casting for Wool, the movie based on Hugh Howey’s epic post-apocalyptic novel. That was my cue to finally read the book. I’m happy to say the book stands up to a lot of the hype I’ve been hearing. Other than maybe needing a tighter
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! When you get right down to it, every year is a good year to be a geek. But 2013 was an especially good one, both for geeks in general and Comic Issues in particular. Join our heroes and heroine as we wrap