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Robert Englund Talks 40th Anniversary of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ and More
FOG! Chats With Paul Pope About The Return of ‘THB’, ‘Battling Boy’, and More!
FOG! Chats With Writer/Editor Shannon Eric Denton About His Latest Project, ‘Forge of Monsters’
FOG! Chats With Matt Taylor About His Updated Book, ‘Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard’; Plus Win a Copy of The Book!
FOG! Speaks to ‘The Daily Show’ Writer/Producer Zhubin Parang
‘Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology’ Coming to Blu-ray and DVD 12/2
‘Batman: Knightfall’ Multi-Part Animated Adaptation Coming From DC, WBHE & Warner Animation
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
NYCC: DC Unveils Ten Bold New Comic Book Series in Its DC Vertigo Imprint
FOG! Chats With Paul Pope About The Return of ‘THB’, ‘Battling Boy’, and More!
‘Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology’ Coming to Blu-ray and DVD 12/2
‘Batman: Knightfall’ Multi-Part Animated Adaptation Coming From DC, WBHE & Warner Animation
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
NYCC: DC Unveils Ten Bold New Comic Book Series in Its DC Vertigo Imprint
This November Hong Kong Cinema Classics Releases ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘A Better Tomorrow’ Trilogy on 4K UHD!
Sneak Peek: TwoMorrows’ Book, ‘Marshall Rogers: Brightest Days & Darkest Knights’ Is Available Now!
FOG! Exclusive!: Check Out This Excerpt From ‘Scooby-Doo! and the Attack of the Scooby Snacks’
Read An Excerpt of ‘The Deepest Fake,’ The New Psychological Thriller Exploring A.I. Manipulation by Daniel Kalla
Exclusive Look at ‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Art of the Movie’ and Win a Copy of the Book!
Welcome To the Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide!
‘Marshall Rogers: Bright Days and Darkest Knights’ (review)
Act 4 Publishing & Skybound Announce ‘The Amazing Spider-Man by Steve Ditko Artist’s Edition’
Sneak Peek: Act 4 Publishing & Skybound Reveal New Look at ‘Jim Aparo’s DC Classics’ Artist’s Edition
‘Darwyn Cooke’s The Complete Spirit Connoisseur Edition’ Arrives in October From Skybound & Act 4 Publishing
‘Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line’ (review)
Forces of Geek 2025 Halloween Gift Guide
First Look: ‘The Art & Making Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro’
DK Announces ‘Star Wars The Blueprints: Designs and Artwork from The Skywalker Saga’
FOG! Chats With Matt Taylor About His Updated Book, ‘Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard’; Plus Win a Copy of The Book!
‘Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel’ HC (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!
How Pop Culture Is Shaping Our Digital Lives
Welcome To The Forces of Geek 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Thirty Two Thoughts About ‘Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould’
‘Novocaine’ Debuts On 4K/Blu-ray June 24th; Available Now on Digital
John Carpenter Announces One-Night-Only New York Concert
Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown’ Celebrates it’s 75th Anniversary With Expanded Edition From Craft Recordings
‘Amadeus: Theatrical Cut’ 4K UHD Blu-ray (review)
DC Comics and the Hero Initiative Present: The Superman 100 Project!
“The Juice is Loose” WBD Unleashes ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Merchandise
TRAGICOMEDY GOLD; SHORT BUT HARDLY SWEET.
Guest Post: Leveraging Social Media to Benefit Your Business
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Today’s ‘SUPERMAN DAY!’ Kicks Off ‘The Summer of Superman!’
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Jack Quaid to star in Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski’s ‘Grim Death & The Electrocuted Criminal’ Audio Podcast
Listen! ‘You Already Know’ Podcast Episode 1: “Akoins”
Podcasts Celebrating Television’s Past
‘Emergency!: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray (review)
‘The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season’ 4K UHD Blu-ray (review)
‘Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray (review)
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
‘Believe’ Again…’Ted Lasso’ Arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray on 11/7!
Forces of Geek 2025 Halloween Gift Guide
‘Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold’ Reveals The Truth Behind The Most Controversial Video Game in History (Plus, Win a Copy on Blu-ray!)
Super7 and Hasbro Set Out to Save the Microverse with All-New Micronauts ReAction+ Line
FOG! Visits The L.A. Comic Con!
Celebrate Batman Day With 85th Anniversary Products From Warner Bros. Discovery
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes to ‘SUPERMAN’!!!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To ‘F1® The Movie’!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To ‘The Legend of Ochi!’
Massachusetts Minecrafters, Win Passes ‘A MINECRAFT MOVIE’ Advance Screening 3/30 at Foxwoods
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To See Bong Joon Ho’s ‘MICKEY 17’
‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Celebrates it’s 35th Anniversary With a 4K Digital Release and the Chance to Win a Copy!
Win ‘Dexter: Resurrection Season One’ on Digital
Win ‘Smoke’ and ‘Blue in the Face’ on Blu-ray!
Win a 4K UHD Blu-ray 4 Film ‘Airport’ Bundle
‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Available on Digital Now; 4K UHD, Blu-ray November 11th, Plus, Win a Digital Copy!
(With no apologies whatsoever to that fucking Norman Podhoretz.) I’ve told the story frequently, if not incessantly, of how I was introduced to comic...
SO WE’RE FUCKED, RIGHT? AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY. I have occasionally, to be honest, frequently, reposted a long piece I wrote a...
I’ve been traveling again this past year, airborne every few weeks or so, and the evidence would indicate that the number of apparently insecure...
Well Now, Just Hold On There a Minute… I’m a longtime member of a spiritual fellowship, a rambling, disorganized and inept quasi-organization, of which...
No era, no civilization, no society has ever had a premium on mediocrity. It has always been with us—or one must assume this is...
I recently made the tactical mistake, not to mention the social gaffe, of disagreeing with someone on his page, in regard to a post,...
Blaming what is essentially an endless epidemic of mass murder on mental health issues, while simultaneously embracing narratives of pedophile rings run out of...
I have been party of late to talk about the decline of the American sense of humor. This situation is of course wide open...
The 1619 PROJECT apparently confirms for the right that the New York Times is a tool of the left. The recent editorial about free...
…THE VIRTUE OF AGONY. The death of the actor William Hurt, besides the loss of such an extraordinarily sly and nuanced talent, and separate,...
…AND TOXIC AVENGERS I was first inoculated by what became a lifelong obsession, and not incidentally a lifelong career, by comic books, in the...
WITLESS PROTECTION, TOO There are two off story moments in BYE, BYE BRAVERMAN, Sidney Lumet’s 1968 comedy of grief, moments that made no ripple...
Not too long ago, I posted a screed covering my ongoing disdain and distaste for the culture of overpraise, where so many minds are...
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
One of the things missing this holiday season, other than the once time-honored socializing in person with others not part of one’s pandemic pod—again!—is...
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t...
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
My thinking about the somewhat unprecedented uninviting this past week of a much-celebrated American comic book talent, by a comic book convention in the...
When and if there is a future, a time in which there is enough distance and detachment to observe, analyze and write with dispassion...
To be clear–Jack Kirby inadvertently, and to his everlasting dismay, invented the brand we’ve come to identify as “Stan Lee.” Stan Lee the writer/editor...
Like a lot of comic book enthusiasts, I spent much of my misspent youth reading dystopic, end of or post end of the world...
It all starts with P.G. WODEHOUSE—although I didn’t find him ‘til much later—but the three guys here are, to varying degrees, his spiritual sons,...
I’ve told the story before, and to be honest, all too frequently, so if you’ve heard it before, be patient and bear with me....
My kid brother—I’m sixty-eight, he’s sixty-four, so who am I kidding with this kid brother shit?—is a serious horseplayer. I have no idea what...