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Dark Crystal Success Shows The Staying Power of a Good Story

Bill Casticart · September 25, 2019

1982 movie The Dark Crystal is probably better categorized as a cult classic rather than as a bona fide classic. So its entrance into 2019 popular culture will have taken many by surprise. The Jim Henson Company collaborated with Netflix to produce a ten-episode prequel to the original film.

Avellone's Crisis on Infinite Betties Continues at Dynamite

RJ Carter · July 9, 2019

David Avallone and Julius Ohta are taking the iconic Bettie Page to places she has never been before -- alternate worlds, alternate dimensions, and ultimately alternate Betties, as she races against time to stop Yog-Sothoth and the Elder Gods from invading our dimension and bringing about the end of...well, pretty m

Red Sonja Battles a Chaos God in Birth of the She-Devil

RJ Carter · June 11, 2019

I'm familiar with Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's creation, Red Sonja. But it's a passing familiarity. I recognize the character, I've read a few issues in my life. But there are years of story that I have not read, an entire mythology that I do not know.

Doctor Who Season 11 Not as Bad -- or as Good -- as Previously Reported

RJ Carter · February 7, 2019

Much ado was made about the iconic British sci-fi show, DOCTOR WHO, when the Doctor regenerated once more, this time into female form and played by JODIE WHITTAKER. More than that, the former showrunner, STEVEN MOFFAT, was leaving as well, putting the new direction of the show up in the air.

Cloverfield Producers Need to Look up Definition of Paradox

RJ Carter · February 2, 2019

The Earth is having a critical energy crisis. It's only hope lies with the experiments on an orbiting space station, where an international group of astronauts tries to fire up a super collider. If they are successful, they will provide a limitless source of free energy.

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