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Science Fiction-Science Fact – Mars, A One Way Trip?

This month’s issue of The Journal of Cosmology is dedicated to essays from prominent scientists with the unified theme of Mars Exploration.  Many of the articles are the stuff of science facts, figures, extrapolation and, considering this IS the Journal of Cosmology, that makes sense. What is causing some quiet talk around the Hadron Collider […]

Ted Sturgeon’s Second Law and Episode Two of The Walking Dead

As Yoda would say, “Tired, I become, of all the haters I hear,” and yes, Yoda is correct. Episode 2 of the Walking Dead was great fun and yet the haters and snarks and grumblers in the Inter-webs abound with every stupid comment one can conceive about why it’s just not good. I argue that […]

TalkCast 59 – Boston ComiCon Preview

Eliza Dushku on Big Bang Theory The Walking Dead on AMC My Neighbor Totoro parody on South Park Shepherd Book gets his origin story in Firefly Comics Zac Efron in talks to star in Akira X-Files 3, why? Our guest tonight, Colin Solan from Boston ComiCon Make a comment on this post on the website […]

The Walking Dead on AMC

When a television show begins its premiere episode with a cop shooting a zombie girl, exploding her head, the viewer has no doubt about where the show is going.  As I watched the first episode, I was giddy, finally a television series that was respectful of its source material. The overnights are calling it the […]

Tale of Two Series: Why They Deserve a Second Look

A month into the new season, and TV shows are falling faster than gerblicks on a Frunetk Patch. Or to put it in other words, Genre TV ratings are sinking back to the same level they have consistently been for the last decade. Is this a bad thing? Well, yes and no. Yes, because (especially if you’re FOX) you demand […]

Authors from my past: Ron Goulart

It dawned on me recently that there are a slew of authors that, though they were well read in my formative years, have since fallen out of favor. It happens, but when it does, we lose part of the rich landscape of our diverse literary heritage. This series is an attempt to bring overlooked authors […]

Scriptease, just as dirty as it sounds…

The British website, SFX has some pretty amazing info for the inner geek. Perhaps one of the most original and funny features is something called Scriptease, in which a TV show’s entire season or a complete run is eviscerated into bite sized gems of hilarity. Past shows they have poked their sharp stick at are […]

Holmes Reboot – Excellent!

For the past few weeks, on our Talkcasts, we have been talking about the BBC re-adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and how awesome it was. Here’s the good news. It debuted in the US last weekend at the New York Comicon to wild enthusiasm. The crowd loved the Steven Moffat special feature discussion about how the […]

Talkcast 55 – Take My Zombie, Please

Our Special Guests: Mark Nelson & Isaac Kennell of Saturday Fright Special Shout out to Comic Art House, Double Midnight Comics and all our friends at New York Comic Con right now! Wizard World is next weekend Events schedule here Ridley Scott is adapting P.K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle“ The team that […]

The Two Words I have Always Longed to Say:

Cassandra Peterson God, I love her. She is iconic and more than a … passing fantasy. When the crew toured Spooky World last week, all kept hearing in my minds eyes was her saucy voice, whispering things to me. I miss you Elvira. I miss your haunted hills, I miss your sly comments. And now, […]

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