Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1968-1972
If you missed 1966-1967… Dinosaurs were dropping like a meteor had hit the planet by the late 1960s. Star Spangled War Stories dropped them for Read More
Category: Television
The Strangest Northerns: Dark Shadows Style
I can’t say I’ve even seen an episode of the original Dark Shadows, the soap opera that featured a truly Gothic line up with Jonathan Read More
Bob Hope: Afraid of Ghosts?
Bob Hope made The Ghostbreakers in 1940 with Paulette Goddard. His comic book The Adventures of Bob Hope (that ran from February 1950 to February Read More
The Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
The Movie That Time Forgot or A Review With Plenty of Whingeing
One of my favorite Edgar Rice Burroughs’ series is the Caspak novels. There were only three, or three segments of a larger work. You can Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery : Mike Ploog (1942-)
Mike Ploog is a comic book artist from the 1970s who later turned to the more lucrative designing movie characters and doing story boards. In Read More
Classic Interview: Jack Passarella
Jack Passarella is the author of three novels in the Buffy universe and the Wither series featuring Wendy Ward. His latest is Wither’s Rain. He Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
The Iceberg Theory
Hollywood is searching for icebergs. I don’t mean a pointless sequel to Titanic, but story ideas that have a long, unseen history behind them. I Read More
Link: John Hanson of the Space Patrol Service
Buck Rogers may have been the first recognizable hero in Science Fiction, so much so that his name became synonymous with the genre, but his Read More