What Fools These Mortals Be: “Translating” Shakespeare
To truly appreciate Shakespeare, you have to read him in his original Klingon. When David Warner said that line in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered […]
Comics
Here Comes Klaus… Here Comes Klaus… Right Down Klaus Lane…
I would say I am strangely excited for this series, but the lie in that is there’s nothing strange about it. I am an unabashed […]
Uncanny X-Men #600 Pulls Out All The Stops!
People, please weigh in on all these variant covers. It feels like the 90s all over again, except the books are much, much better. But […]
Meet Marceline Before She Was the Vampire Queen
Pull on a costume and carve some pumpkins, because Halloween is in the air in the Land of Ooo! Well…actually, it’s summertime in Ooo, but […]
Hel Hath a New Fury: Angela, Queen of Hel
The introduction of Angela to the Marvel Universe came at an awkward time. Already shedding a couple of decades of baggage from Spawn, the character […]
Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. In Time For Halloween!
I loved the previous attempt to make something like this work when Keith Giffen wrote it. I hope I’ll love this one. My first encounter […]
Comic-Con 2015: The Sunday Gallery
I just realized I still had a few pictures left from the last day of Comic-Con 2015. It’s the end of September and I’ve just […]
The Silver Surfer Returns in January!
If you’ve listened to the podcast, you know we’re big fans of the work Dan Slott and Mike Allred have been doing on this book […]
Doc Savage Returns in The Spider’s Web
Dynamite seems to be handling their Street and Smith properties right — though there was a bit of Shadow overload. Doc Savage needs solid plotting, […]
Moon Knight Gets All New All Different Marvel Treatment
I’m going to put the challenge out there — how many times has Marvel given Moon Knight a new #1 in the last decade? We’ve […]
The Joker: Endgame
If you’ve caught the new robotic Batman inhabited by James Gordon, you know that things just aren’t what they used to be in Gotham City. […]
Batman Eternal on Kindle For $8!
Ric Bretschneider is traveling today, or no doubt he would have posted this himself. He asked me to note that Amazon has a great deal […]
The Mad Monk of the Inhumans Goes Solo in Karnak #1
Even if you’re a Marvel fan, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about Karnak. He isn’t exactly a major player with fantastic […]
Steve Wozniak and Friends Announce Tickets Available For Silicon Valley Comic Con
Last March, Steve Wozniak and Stan Lee announced that Big Wow Comic Fest would transform into the Silicon Valley Comic Con for 2016. There were […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates To Write Black Panther Solo Series
With all the excitement about Chadwick Boseman appearing as T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War, it makes sense we would be getting a new Black Panther solo […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode #413: Diamond in the Rough!
The fanboys interview Diamond in the Rough independent Film Festival’s Rob Campbell, discuss 48 Hour Film Festival winners Jason Salazar and Drew Campbell’s Stygian Outpost preview […]
William Shatner Celebrates Star Trek 50th At Silicon Valley Comic Con!
Well, this should start the Silicon Valley Comic Con off right… The original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, has set coordinates for Silicon Valley Comic Con […]
Blue Beetle and Booster Gold Movie Coming?
In what was an exclusive for about ten minutes, the site The Tracking Board reports that Warner Brothers decided that maybe their TV approach is […]
All New All Different Marvel All 1972?
Last week, Marvel announced two series that offered either a commitment or a pandering to diversity, depending on which side of the internet you read. […]
Marvel Announces Cosplay Variant Covers!
Another sign of times changing — and it’s cool. If ever you needed proof that cosplaying has become firmly entrenched as a major part of […]