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FOG! Chats With Amazing Améziane About His Book, ‘SPIELBERG’
FOG! Chats With Kelly Thompson On Her Upcoming Trip to The Buffyverse!
FOG! Demands Answers About The ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker’ Action Figure Kickstarter From The Wandering Planet Toys Masterminds
FOG! Attends The 53rd Annual Saturn Awards!
FOG! Chats With Author Anthony Taylor About His New Book, ‘Classic Monsters, Modern Art’
WBDHE Announces ‘Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall’
Two Books Examining Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Announced by Insight Editions
‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ Celebrates It’s 60th Anniversary
Beloved Cult Classic ‘TEKKONKINKREET’ Makes Its 4K UHD Debut September 1st, 2026
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WBDHE Announces ‘Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall’
Two Books Examining Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Announced by Insight Editions
‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ Celebrates It’s 60th Anniversary
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Monster Forge and Longbox Heroes Launch a New Prestige Line Featuring Sky Captain and The Rocketeer
Designing the Dystopian Cuisine of “Ash Land” From Author Matt Harry
Insecurity and Desperation 38 Years Later: Reflections on ‘Broadcast News’
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‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ Celebrates It’s 60th Anniversary
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Two Books Examining Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Announced by Insight Editions
‘Cult Television: 101 Forgotten Shows to Remember’ (review)
‘Agatha Christie: Murder is Easy’ DVD (review)
Pre-Order Mark Voger’s ‘Son of Monster Mash’ Coming From TwoMorrows Publishing!
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‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Blu-ray (review)
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
The Forces of Geek 2023 Back to School Gift Guide
‘Superman: The Movie’ Web3 Experience: Multimedia Living Movie Experience from WBHE and Eluvio Available Today!
‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ Celebrates It’s 60th Anniversary
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“The Juice is Loose” WBD Unleashes ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Merchandise
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Guest Post: Leveraging Social Media to Benefit Your Business
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Podcasts Celebrating Television’s Past
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Complete First Season’ 4K UHD Blu-ray (review)
‘YOU: The Complete Series’ DVD (review)
‘Difficult People: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray (review)
‘Task: The Complete First Season’ Blu-ray (review)
‘I Love Lucy: The Complete Series’ 75th Anniversary Edition DVD (review)
Exclusive Look at ‘The Infinity Saga – Ant-Man and the Wasp: The Art of the Movie’ and Win a Copy of the Book!
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1’ Available on Digital; Plus, Win a Digital Copy!
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…THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL. In 1729, Jonathan Swift, best known to you from a middling feature length cartoon that killed the Fleischer studio, and/or...
Purity tests are all too often the kangaroo courts of popular culture. When I was a much younger man, earnestly seeking improvement in my...
A few weeks back, over lunch, a pal asked me what I thought the odds were that I’d make it to eighty years of...
EVEN BEETHOVEN, BACH AND MOZART, TOOK IN THE TAPPIN’ TOES ART… I can say, unequivocally, that all the music I love and listen to...
On August 31st, 1989, I took a flight from Los Angeles to London, arriving on September 1st, 1989, which was universally celebrated as the...
…FOUR KINGS When I became a working comic book artist in the 1970s—“Going pro,” as it was called then—I found myself in the company...
I might have said it before, but it bears repeating—I am a frequent latecomer to trends as they develop, and often miss the boat...
I noted a few weeks back that I was rereading some of Calvin Trillin’s NEW YORKER material from the 1980s, and that this reading...
…AND DOWN FOR THE COUNT. A few weeks back, a short clip of Joe Rogan’s show surfaced on Facebook, in which he chatted with...
There is a longstanding cultural trope, one which I embrace wholeheartedly, that says we tend to dress in a manner and style reflecting the...
…AND THE DEVICES WERE USUALLY TELEVISION. Reading Ashley Holt’s lovely recent piece about Oscar Levant, an early role model of mine, and my own...
A GIL KANE STORY. In 1984, First Comics threw a party at a Mexican restaurant in Chicago, to celebrate its first anniversary, during the...
When I was a little boy, watching THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, I cringed a bit, although I certainly wouldn’t have had the words to...
…OR JUST MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY. The title above is a quote attributed to George S. Kaufman, confirming his commitment...
Recently, a very kind fellow posted a piece about my work that was incredibly flattering, and, as in all things, despite the cliched banality,...
These three anecdotes first saw the light on Facebook. I post them here to buy me some time as I continue my mission of...
One of the sadder aspects of the relentless ascendance of digital life, of the replacement of flesh and blood society with social media, is...
A confession, first and foremost…I never met or knew John Severin. His sister, Marie, however, barely knew me but disliked me intensely. Why, you...
My pal Cully Hamner suggested a few weeks back I start a series of posts about artists I love. This is the introduction I...
…YOU KNOW THE REST. Or maybe that’s just presumptuous of me, as a member of a dying cohort, a generation that is, was, generally,...
BUT NOT TO YOU. AND FORGET ABOUT IT, YOU. Nearly a decade ago, at a publisher’s presentation to the press and public of upcoming...
APOSTASY AND ME. I’ve been thinking about Merle Haggard lately. I’ve been a fan since the late 1960s, at a time when acknowledging such...
…HAS CHANGED MY PERCEPTION. Be prepared—the Lede is going be so buried, one might call it interment…but please, bear with me. My relationship with...
… Maybe Monetizing That Jewish Space Laser Bullshit Wasn’t The Best Idea I was born in 1950, five years after the world was finally...