If you’ve had anything to do with science fiction over the last thirty years, chances are you’ve seen or read something by Peter David. The man has written for movie and TV, dozens of original novels, thousands of comic book issues, and generally has something new coming out about once a month. My introduction to all things Peter David
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Continuing our love of older comic book movies, we returned to old Marvel characters this week by watching 1998’s Blade. Wesley Snipes is our hero, a half-vampire known as Blade, The Daywalker. He hates vampires (like, really hates them) and his mission
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Halloween is over for another year. As sad as we here at Movie Issues are to see it go, we’re still kicking out one more movie for the season! We watched the 2011 “comedy-horror” flick Vamps. This movie was so bad we
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s officially Halloween, and what better way to celebrate than with some vampires? Join our heroes and heroine this week as they stab a wooden stake through much of the vampire myths of today, establishing what we feel are their proper strengths
Honest Abe split rails – and now, he’s splitting vampire skulls in this week’s Dual Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Another book-to-movie adaptation, this one follows little Lincoln through his secret life of vampire slaying and his rise in politics. Follow along as the boys give their two Lincolns about history’s tallest hunter with the
Based on the 1960s television show of the same name: Dark Shadows is the story of Barnabas Collins, a vampire turned after breaking the heart of a witch. Buried alive, he is accidentally set free in 19721 and returns to his beloved town and family home of Collinwood, now occupied by his dysfunctional descendants. Directing
If you ever hear me say “Oh, I’m not really into the whole vampire thing,” feel free to smack me. I don’t know why I say it; it’s probably because I don’t dress in black or wear fake fangs (much) but as I was reading Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls, I kept comparing it to
Writer Scott Snyder has been one of the “IT” guys at DC Comics for several years now, starting with his creator-owned American Vampire series at Vertigo, and rolling into his landmark run in Detective Comics. Snyder has continued his run with Batman in the New 52 on the self-titled Bat-book as well as picking up
I love vampire fiction. I am enchanted by the mythos that invariably surrounds these denizens of the night, and, in my opinion, the best part about the mythos is that it changes from author to author. Vampires are intrinsically different in each story, but still retain certain distinguishing features. Jasper Kent’s fantastic vampire novel Twelve