Ahh Star Wars… I’m writing this on the 12th, so haven’t seen The Force Awakens yet, but you’d better believe I am damned excited, and am trying to get my hands on the new, ever-expanding, now canon universe that exists outside the film in the form of books and comics. So I dug into…
Tag: comics
Star Wars: Aftermath (2015) – Chuck Wendig
The Journey to The Force Awakens continues… we’ve had the first issue of the comic, and now comes the new novel, set in the newly established timeline, which sadly jettisoned some of the great stories that created the Expanded Universe that have been in place for over two decades. Aftermath picks up a few…
Armada (2015) – Ernest Cline
Cline has done it again. Crafting another fantastic novel that embraces and celebrates pop culture interwoven with a thrilling narrative. Embracing its inner Iron Eagle, Ender’s Game and The Last Starfighter, while in turn paying nods to Contact and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Cline has crafted a novel that revels and embraces…
Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – Randall Lobb
Back in the mid-80s, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created a huge pop culture touchstone for many of the children growing up in the 90s… four turtles, named for Renaissance artists, taught by an aged rat, living in the sewers, living off pizza, and fighting for justice against a cadre of menaces, with the…
Trailer tracks: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – James Gunn
I’m looking forward to this new foray into the Marvel Universe, in fact I’ve already started catching up on the comics. This one just looks like good, summer fun!
Around The House – Sue’s X-Files Collection
A look inside most of the items that make up my X-Files collection thus far. There are some things I didn’t include here (VHS copies, small items I couldn’t find like fan club documents and my wee alien head necklace, for example), but this is definitely the bulk of it. And, of course, two-thirds…
Hammertown Comic Con
Sue and I, with our friend and camera operator Kayleigh Book in tow, tackled the Hammertown Comic Con in Hamilton this past weekend, and we had a lot of fun! There were 3 Back To The Future guests, a couple of DeLoreans, some fantastic costumes, great art, and some cool folks to chat to! Sue…
Fan Expo Day 2
So welcome to Day 2 of our annual Geekfest, which for Sue and I tends to be better than Christmas!! We saw lots of fun stuff today! And got to have some of our photo ops done, more on that in a second… There was some great stuff to be seen today (and cool filters…
Pacific Rim (2013) – Guillermo del Toro
I’m still grinning. It’s not very often that so-called ‘Event’ blockbuster movies can completely take me in, and fewer still can lay claim to being an actual event. Del Toro’s new film, Pacific Rim, does just that. It geeked out the little kid in me, and totally pleased the grown-up film buff as well….
Superman (1978) – Richard Donner
Anyone who knows me, knows that alongside Iron Man, my favorite comic book hero of all time is Superman. He has always given me something to strive for, to try to make myself better than I am, to hold myself and others to a higher form of ideals. And all of that stems back to…
The Mind Reels 