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The Live Action Short Film Oscar: Where Oscar Pools Go to Die
Dean Haspiel Chats With FOG! About Kickstarting His Latest Creation, ‘Chest Face’
FOG! Chats With Authors Brian Levant and Fred Fox, Jr. About Their Book, ’50 Years of Happy Days: A Visual History of an American Television Classic’
FOG! Speaks With Edward Gross and Robert Greenberger, Authors of ‘Superman: The Definitive History’
FOG! Chats With Ray Richmond, Author of ‘The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History’
‘The Art of George Wilson’ Arrives in Stores on March 5th!
Sony Announces ‘Kraven The Hunter’ on Digital, 4K, Blu-ray & DVD; Upcoming 4K Releases Include ‘My Girl’, ‘Panic Room’, & ‘The Social Network’
April Brings The Little Monsters With ‘Lady Gaga is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Lady Gaga”
DC Announces New Ongoing Comic Book Series, ‘Superman Unlimited’ to Launch in May 2025
Warner Bros. Announces ‘Amadeus’ on 4K UHD February 25
‘The Art of George Wilson’ Arrives in Stores on March 5th!
Sony Announces ‘Kraven The Hunter’ on Digital, 4K, Blu-ray & DVD; Upcoming 4K Releases Include ‘My Girl’, ‘Panic Room’, & ‘The Social Network’
April Brings The Little Monsters With ‘Lady Gaga is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Lady Gaga”
DC Announces New Ongoing Comic Book Series, ‘Superman Unlimited’ to Launch in May 2025
Warner Bros. Announces ‘Amadeus’ on 4K UHD February 25
Welcome To the Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide!
Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: DVD, Blu-ray & 4K UHD
Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics & Graphic Novels
Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Home / Office / Ephemera
Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Books, Literature, Art & Design
Celebrate Batman Day With 85th Anniversary Products From Warner Bros. Discovery
‘Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Three’ 4K UHD Digital (review)
The Walt Disney Family Museum Commemorates 15th Anniversary With The Release of ‘Walt Disney Treasures’
DC Comics and the Hero Initiative Present: The Superman 100 Project!
First Look: ‘Vandals: The Photography of The Bikeriders’ From Insight Editions
‘The Art of George Wilson’ Arrives in Stores on March 5th!
April Brings The Little Monsters With ‘Lady Gaga is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Lady Gaga”
‘The Great Gildersleeve’ (review)
‘The White Lotus Official Cocktail Collection’ is Available Today! Try Some Sample Cocktail Recipes!
The Folio Society Announces Marvel Comic Collector Editions are on Sale, Now!
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
‘Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids’ (review)
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School: 45th Anniversary Edition’ 4K UHD (review)
Klayton (Celldweller) and Joshua Viola Form Bit Bot Media and Announce Strategic Partnerships with Raven Banner Entertainment and FreakZone Games
Fantasia Obscura: ‘Rust Never Sleeps’
‘Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years’ Celebrates Prince’s Most Iconic Album and Film
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
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
‘Cartoon Logic’ Podcast Launches
‘The Great Gildersleeve’ (review)
‘The White Lotus Official Cocktail Collection’ is Available Today! Try Some Sample Cocktail Recipes!
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks The Final Season’ & ‘Complete Series’ Beam Down on Blu-ray and DVD on March 25th
Andrew Osborne’s TOP 10 2024 Motion Pictures & Television Series
‘Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids’ (review)
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
Laurel & Hardy Action Figures Launch on Kickstarter From Wandering Planet Toys
“The Juice is Loose” WBD Unleashes ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Merchandise
Blue Man Group: New Acts, Same Hue (theater review)
‘Tis An A Faire To Remember!: FOG!’s Benn and Liz Robbins Revisit Carvershire
‘Cirque du Solei Boston Presents ‘Twas The Night Before …(review)
Star Wars Celebration 2022: A New Hope
Hayao Miyazaki: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition Catalog (review)
Win Free Movie Passes For ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes to ‘Venom: The Last Dance’
Contests Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To See ‘Joker: Folie Á Deux’
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To See ‘The Watchers’ From Producer M. Night Shyamalan!
Boston Cinegeeks, Whatcha Gonna Do? We’ve Got Passes to See ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
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...
The trade paperback collecting issues one through five of HEY KIDS! COMICS! hits the shelves on February 13th. For those of you who’ve been...
To be clear…I’m a well-regarded and welcome guest at comic book conventions—and as those who meet me at shows have heard endlessly, my belief...
So, early last month I was invited to be a guest at the SDCC in 2019. I was more than a little surprised, since...
“…Ah, but it’s cold outside.” And apparently getting colder. Do I feel a kind of perverse pride in my uncanny prescience in getting ahead...
The fifth issue-which wraps up what I hope will be the first of three arcs of HEY KIDS! COMICS!—hit many of your comic book...
Forgive an old man for a slipping memory. Here’s an addendum, and not necessarily the last such, to the lists that preceded it… ...
This time I’m covering other genres, the outliers, and the oops, I slipped on this one or that one. I’m sure there are authors...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...
Just to be clear… There’s an awful lot of un-American shitting on each other’s parades lately. Hypermasculine man-boys on the energized right are affronted...
HOWARD CHAYKIN is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in...
What we recognize as modern comic book fandom had its real start in the very early 1950s, in the form of what was called...
Thoughts and observations from August 2017. With all the talk about our supposedly long held American aversion to Nazism and Fascism, it might be...
It’s been several decades since the late Brandon Tartikoff first identified comic books as the next big thing in dramatic narrative. He was right,...