Continuing my exploration of Archaia Entertainment’s roster of creators, I’d like to introduce you to Nimue Brown, co-creator with Tom Brown of Hopeless, Maine. As Tom revealed over the course of our conversation, Nimue has played a key role in bringing that haunted isle to life even as she supplied each of its diverse denizens with their proper voice. Despite...
Conspiracy Theories: A Scientist on Global Warming
My dear childhood friend, Dr. Christina Ravelo, had no idea that on one recent lovely sunny Southern California day another friend of mine, an author of worldwide renown, was accusing her of being part of a global warming conspiracy. Dr. Ravelo is a Professor in the Ocean Sciences Department and was formerly Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary...
DVD Review: LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
For the lighter side of the Star Wars universe, LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out offers up an animated combination of characters from the original and prequel trilogies. Inspired by the popular video game series, The Empire Strikes Out is a 22-minute special that originally aired in September, 2012 on Cartoon Network. Just as in the games, all the...
The Human Equation: Interview with Bomb Girls’ Meg Tilly
During World War II every able-bodied person helped in the fight against the enemy. While the men served on the front lines, the women did whatever necessary back home to support the troops. The popular Canadian-made TV drama Bomb Girls follows the stories of four women working in a Canadian munitions factory while the conflict continues to unfold overseas. Multi-talented...
Comics: Cliff Galbraith Discusses the 2013 Asbury Park Comicon
I’ve known Cliff Galbraith for at least a decade. We first met at the Comic-Con International: San Diego, where I was walking the floor in search of interesting stories and he was hawking copies of his gloriously anarchic, highly entertaining comic Rat Bastard. We hit it off immediately, and enjoyed catching up at every show we both attended for years....
Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One
Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One arrives on Blu-ray, a six-disc set housed in a standard case with slipcover (just like the Next Generation Blu-rays so far), carrying a fair amount of baggage. To date, Enterprise is the final Trek television series. After seven seasons each of Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, the prequel series ended up lasting...
Comics: Eric R. Gignac on Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy Kickstarter Campaign
Every now and then a project comes along that captures not only your attention, but imagination, too. In my case, they’re often based upon something startlingly new, or a combination of known elements that offers intriguing possibilities or expanded horizons. And then there are those instances which hit home with their obvious compatibility, what I typically think of as a...
Blu-ray Review: In Like Flint – Twilight Time Limited Edition
January saw the Blu-ray debut of the 1966 spy spoof Our Man Flint. Now the same boutique label that brought us that cult favorite has followed up with its sequel, the 1967 In Like Flint. Twilight Time has released the film as one of their traditional limited edition runs of 3,000 copies. Despite a change in director, with Gordon Douglas...
Comics: Rick Geary on A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium, Volume 1
For the better part of a generation, Rick Geary has explored some of the darkest corners of the human experience and recorded his findings in a series of critically acclaimed books of graphic nonfiction. To create those volumes he’s researched and reported on some of the most famous and gruesome murders of the past, including those committed by Jack the...
Blu-ray Review: Schindler’s List
As Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic Schindler’s List makes its Blu-ray debut 20 years after its original release, it’s very likely that most everyone already knows whether this is a film they need to have as part of their collection. For many moviegoers, it was a once-is-enough kind of experience due to its harsh depiction of unconscionable brutality. It should go...