Star Wars: The Tikis Awaken
Full disclosure: you BET we’re promoting a site we have an affiliation with. Every now and then there’s a product just too cool. In this […]
Articles by Derek McCaw
The GrittyTastic World Of Hanna-Barbera, Year Two
Yesterday I took a look at the first wave of the DC Comics reimagining of Hanna-Barbera’s properties, and coincidentally, it was also the day that […]
New ‘Justice League’ Poster
It occurs to me that no new poster will change my enthusiasm level for the upcoming Justice League movie, but if this were for soccer or […]
Josh Brolin Cast As Cable For ‘Deadpool 2’
Well, this ought to smooth things out between all the various factions of Marvel productions… The ongoing search for the right actor to play Nathan […]
The Gritty World Of Hanna-Barbera, Year One Revisited
As Phase Two of the DC Comics Hanna-Barbera experiment gets underway, a look at what worked and maybe what didn’t.
Disney Going West(World)?
According to CNN, Disney has filed a patent application for robots — including “soft, humanoid robots.” While no great surprise that the company would push […]
The ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Trailer. Is. Awesome.
Director Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows) promised us something different. Though Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has always had the capacity to be funny, […]
Gallifrey One: ‘The Doctor Games’
To honor that today is the day that tickets for Gallifrey One 2018 (aka The 29 Voyages of Gallifrey One) went on sale, here’s a little […]
Thing I Forgot To Post Last Week 4/5/2017:
‘Big Trouble In Little China’ The Game
Mark this as #1 in an intermittent series of articles about things that were extremely cool, but the day got away, and then a week […]
Conor McCreery Talks ‘Past Is Prologue: Juliet’
The latest chapter in the ‘Kill Shakespeare’ saga heads to fair Verona, linking the Juliet of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy to the action heroine of the comic book series.
Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders
Originally posted 11-20-13, this review begins Drew Simchik’s countdown of his top 5 Doctor Who stories. Number 5 of my all-time Doctor Who favorites is […]
Squirrel Girl Going Freeform With ‘New Warriors’
The greatest superhero in the Marvel Universe will be joining the Freeform network in 2018. Going straight to a 10-episode series, New Warriors will center on […]
Classic ‘Doctor Who’ Finally Streaming Again
Without a lot of hoopla, unless you already were getting emails from the BBC, the venerable network finally launched their long-promised streaming service in the […]
The Scum & Villainy Cantina
When Obi-Wan Kenobi uttered those deathless words, “you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,” he was talking about the spaceport town […]
The 2017 Hugo Awards Finalists
Announced this morning from Helsinki, here are the finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards. Attendees of Worldcon 75 in Helsinki will be voting on the […]
Comic-Con 2017: San Diego Gets A Comic-Con Museum
The Comic-Con experience has a cycle. Every year there’s a build up (tickets go on sale next week), either jubilance or anger depending on whether […]
Jean Grey and Black Bolt Both Fly Solo
Poor Marvel — they’ve gotten a lot of the wrong kind of attention this past week, bemoaning low sales and (partially) blaming it on diversity […]
First Look At ‘Black Lightning’
I don’t think we’d noted on the podcast that the CW was actively developing its fifth DC superhero series (sixth if you count iZombie) for the 2017-2018 […]
‘It’ Floats Its First Trailer…
As was pointed out to me by a friend today, the so-called “Losers Club” of kids that face down against Pennywise features Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things […]
New Trailer For ‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’
Can we silently admit to ourselves that sometime in early July, marketing is going to cut down the title to just Valerian? Or maybe people will […]
