Comic Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero #299: The Penultimate Issue at IDW Sets up an Exciting Finale
By generaljabbo |
For being the penultimate issue of G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, issue #299 (part four of the “All ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero: Saturday Morning Adventures: The TV Show Comes to Life in This Fun Miniseries
By generaljabbo |
During the 1980s, G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, was seemingly everywhere. What began as a successful toy line ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special by Larry Hama
By generaljabbo |
The 1960s had G.I. Joe, America’s Movable Fighting Man, a series of doll-sized action figures that highlighted all branches of ...
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TV Review: Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book
By Steve Geise |
After 40 years of ongoing publication, the Love & Rockets comic book is long overdue for a celebratory retrospective. Thankfully, ...
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Book Review: Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema’s Greatest Stunts by Scott McGee
By Joe Garcia III |
Relive some of motion picture’s most exciting moments through action-packed, full-color photos in Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films ...
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Book Review: Disneyanity: Of ‘Walt’ & Religion by Douglas Brode
By Joe Garcia III |
Disneyanity isn't a theological work of compare and contrast or how Disney and world religions stack up against one another. ...
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Book Review: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
By Steve Geise |
A young Latina politician runs for and wins office in New York as a virtual unknown, ousting a veteran incumbent ...
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Book Review: Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen
By Jade Blackmore |
Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen recounts one of John Lennon’s less publicized legal ...
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Book Review: It’s Alive! by Julian David Stone
By Joe Garcia III |
Inspired by true events! It’s Alive! is a fantastic, fictional account of the final days leading up to the filming ...
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Book Review: Tough Tender by Max Allan Collins
By Greg Hammond |
Tough Tender, by Max Allan Collins, is the latest double-issue reprint from Hard Case Crime book publishers and includes two ...
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Book Review: The Junction by Norm Konyu
By Steve Geise |
Far too rarely, a graphic novel lands in the market with such an assured sense of style and substance that ...
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Book Review: Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies by Alicia Malone
By Davy |
The lovely Alicia Malone has proven herself to be a great film reporter, writer, and fellow movie geek. One of ...
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Book Review: The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street by Trevor Crafts
By Gordon S. Miller |
If you are the kind of person who not only enjoys magic tricks, but wants to know how they saw ...
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Book Review: Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
By Kent Conrad |
Alfred Hitchcock was a weird guy. That's not a slur on his character, but a statement of fact. He was ...
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Book Review: Otto Preminger: The Man Who Be King by Foster Hirsch
By Davy |
The legendary (for better and worse) Otto Preminger was one of the most influential and progressive people in Hollywood history. ...
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Book Review: Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood by Leonard Maltin
By David Wangberg |
He has covered the entertainment industry since he was 13 years old. At some point, maybe even right now, his ...
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Book Review: Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
By Davy |
Censorship is a long and deranged form of limitation toward the freedoms and boundless expression in all forms of media, ...
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From the Couch Hole: Got to Pay Your Dues
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went into Cream and KrispyKreme. The previous episode was pretty funyan and we talked about Love/Hate ...
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Book Review: Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It by Eve Golden
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you saw a headline about a blonde bombshell actress living in a “pink palace” with her muscular husband, pack ...
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Book Review: Alien 3 by Pat Cadigan, based on the Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson
By Mark Buckingham |
Alien 3 has been saddled with challenges since it was first announced. Multiple directors and screenplay efforts came forward, and ...
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From the Couch Hole: Dreaming My Life Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we spoke about sassy spirits, snakes in the spice aisle, and spicy sweet Dew. This week continued ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 29: 1976-1977 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip debuted on October 4, 1931 named after its lead character, a by-the-book police detective ...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of The Stand by Andy Burns
By Joe Keaton |
Priced at $45, The Art and Making of The Stand (Titan Books) is a coffee-table bit of glossiness devoted to ...
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Book Review: Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics by John Malahy
By Davy |
Normally, I have never been into Summer, especially due to the hot, stifling weather; mosquitoes, screaming children at play, overcrowded ...
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Book Review: Castle in the Air by Donald E. Westlake
By Greg Hammond |
Castle in the Air, by Donald E. Westlake, is a recent crime caper reprint (1980) from the always entertaining Hard ...
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Book Review: Two for the Money by Max Allan Collins
By Greg Hammond |
Two for the Money, by Max Allan Collins, is the latest double issue reprint from the almost always good Hard ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming is Book 35 in the collected volumes of Stan Sakai's long running comic book series and the ...
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Book Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 5
By Gordon S. Miller |
The fifth volume of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection opens with Issue #56, Part 7 of the ...
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Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis by Alex White
By Mark Buckingham |
There's a tendency in the Alien universe for humans to try to tame/control the chitinous ebony extraterrestrial monsters, and it ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo Origins Volume 01 by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
Over the course of his comic book career, Stan Sakai has become a legend in the industry, winning numerous awards ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 28: 1974-1976 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip debuted on October 4, 1931 named after the lead character, a square-jawed, yellow-hat-and-jacket-wearing police ...
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Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon Volume 10: 1965-1966 by Milton Caniff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Since January 2012, the Library of American Comics, by way of IDW Publishing, has been releasing collections of Milton Caniff's ...
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Book Review: Later by Stephen King: Growing Up with Ghosts
By Joe Keaton |
Dismiss his output from the last few decades all you like: Stephen King is a master of sentence construction. And ...
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By Gordon S. Miller |
Tying in with Disney+'s WandaVision, Marvel has repackaged some of the duo's adventures in Vision & the Scarlet Witch: The ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 27: 1972-1974 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
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Book Review: Wolverine: Weapon X Omnibus by Cerasini, Mack, and Matthews
By Greg Hammond |
Wolverine: Weapon X Omnibus is a collection of three classic Logan, aka Wolverine of X-Men fame, novels from Titan Books. ...
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Book Review: For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Volume Five (1993-1996) by Lynn Johnston
By Chad Derdowski |
In 1995, I was a senior in high school and Michael Patterson was just starting college. While I wrote for ...
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Book Review: Corto Maltese: Mu, The Lost Continent by Hugo Pratt
By Steve Geise |
Italian comics star Hugo Pratt led a life that was nearly as adventurous as his most famous character, Corto Maltese. ...
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Book Review: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Crusader’s Curse by Stuart Douglas
By Greg Hammond |
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Crusader’s Curse (2020) by Stuart Douglas is the thirty-second entry in The Further Adventures of ...
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Book Review: Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury by Brittney Morris
By Greg Hammond |
Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales - Wings of Fury by Brittney Morris is a prequel to the video game Marvel Spider-Man: ...
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Book Review: Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel by Joseph B. Atkins
By Greg Hammond |
Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel, by Joseph B. Atkins (University Press of Kentucky, 2020), is a carefully crafted tribute ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 15: 1953-1954 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip debuted on October 4, 1931 named after the lead character, a square-jawed, yellow-hat-and-jacket-wearing police detective. In ...
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Book Review: Maureen O’Hara: The Biography by Aubrey Malone
By Greg Hammond |
Maureen O'Hara: The Biography by Aubrey Malone (University Press of Kentucky - 2020) is a heartfelt biography of the screen ...
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Book Review: Serpentine by Philip Pullman
By Greg Hammond |
Serpentine, by Philip Pullman, is the latest entry into the author’s much lauded His Dark Materials. Coming in at fewer ...
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Book Review: The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, edited by Una McCormack
By Greg Hammond |
The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, by Una McCormack, is the third book in a series of planned Star Trek “autobiographies” ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry by Dan Curry and Ben Robinson
By Greg Hammond |
In Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry by Dan Curry and Ben Robinson, the reader is constantly reminded that ...
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Book Review: Blade Runner 2049 – Interlinked – The Art by Tanya Lapointe
By David Wangberg |
I remember back in 2017, after I had just exited the IMAX presentation of Blade Runner 2049, being absolutely stunned by ...
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Book Review: Joe Alves: Designing Jaws by Dennis Prince
By Gordon S. Miller |
Special make-up effects artist and The Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero, who cites Steven Spielberg's Jaws as an inspiration for his becoming a ...
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Book Review: Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists by Various
By Mark Buckingham |
I took the opportunity to review Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists because I'm an Alien nut, then realized I don't really know anything about ...
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Book Review: Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director by Peter Tonguette
By Joe Keaton |
Director Peter Bogdanovich is neither misunderstood nor unappreciated, I think. His claim to fame as a movie brat (though he might ...
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