Category Archives: Daily Rants

Exterminated

June 10th, 2011 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, TV

  I’ll be honest, when I first started watching Doctor Who reruns as a kid, I was a bigger fan of the human(ish) villains than the monster types. The Valeyard, the Rani, the Master (RIP Anthony Ainley), these characters were fascinating, oozing schemes out of their ears, a true mental match for the Doctor, right […]

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Miracles

June 9th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

When the regular TV season ends, I start digging out old favorites on DVD. This week’s pick is Miracles, a short lived show that ran on ABC in January of 2003. Of the 13 episodes, only 6 ran.  These were aired in such a spaced out, convoluted fashion that it would have made Fox proud. […]

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The Crow Graphic Novel Revisited

June 9th, 2011 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

Originally released in 1993, this classic urban gothic tale of tragedy and revenge came from a personal loss of artist/writer/creator James O’Barr. The Crow graphic novel is an intense arrangement of art, lyrical verse, anger, sadness and a story that is not meant to be entertaining, yet is satisfying to read.

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The Multiverse – Physics Catches up with Sci-Fi

June 8th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Science Fiction/Science Fact

In earlier pieces here I’ve talked about the Heinlein “multiverse” and how I consider the idea of parallel universes one of the successful predictions of science fiction. Along comes physicist Brian Greene to support that assertion in a far more elegant way than I could. His book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep […]

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Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall”: The Triumph of Ignorance

June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

In honor of the special tribute to Isaac Asimov on the podcast this week I thought I’d share some thoughts on one of his superlative short stories (almost always ranked as one of the top sci-fi short stories all time), “Nightfall”. Although written when he was only 21, it captures two of the key elements […]

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Harlan Ellison’s Phoenix Without Ashes Review

June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Movies

Harlan Ellison’s graphic novel Phoenix Without Ashes is a story that grabs you by the collar and and wastes no time shoving you into the fray. Ellison pulls no punches in his first comic in fifteen years.

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I am Number Four

May 31st, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Movies

About a month ago I listened to the audio book of I am Number Four, and I rented the movie last night. Usually I don’t like to read a book and watch the movie so close together, but I did this time for comparison purposes. Let’s just say I feel like this movie should have […]

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The Guild: Graphic Novel Review

May 19th, 2011 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

If you’ve seen the popular web series The Guild, about a group of on-line gamers dealing with issues both in-game and offline, then you’ll enjoy this graphic novel prequel. Originally released as a three-issue miniseries by Dark Horse Comics, the graphic novel comes with a few extras, and the story of Cyd Sherman’s life before […]

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

May 17th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

I love finding a great series of books to read after the last one has been published. That is what happened to  me with The Hunger Games trilogy. My friend told me I had to read it, and since I listen to her when it comes to books, I did. The basic premise of the […]

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SFSN @ Boston Comic Con 2011 Comic!

May 8th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

Here it is, hot off the digital press! Ready for the digital comic reader of your choice! Available in both cbr and cbz formats.

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