Monthly Archives: May 2011
Summer of SciFi TV
Summer is around the corner. For some, that means cookouts with friends, catching a baseball game or heading to the beach. The last thing you may be thinking about when temperatures rise, is television.
Cable networks are hoping they can convince you to tune in, and they are focusing heavily on the scifi genre. There will be alien invasions, extraordinary abilities, mystical objects and vampires coming to the small screen. We have rounded up show summaries and video previews, where available, for the genre shows vieing for your loyalty.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA -… Read more..
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Stan Lee Reveals Spider-Man Cameo at Dallas Comic-Con!
Dallas Comic-Con had its best year yet this year with a new, bigger location and huge celebrity guests. Leonard Nimoy, Carrie Fisher, and Stan Lee were among the many guests. I was lucky enough to attend one of Stan’s panels, and this one was moderated by John Romita, Jr.! I have to say, the world […]
Stan Lee with John Romita, Jr. – Heroes’ Origins: Super Orphanage!
While working on my chapter about why Batman works with a boy sidekick, I’ve been contemplating how and why the most famous superheroes all tend to be orphans. For Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man, their parents’ and surrogate parents’ deaths are integral to their origins. Daredevil too. Robin’s origin was a deliberate reflection of Batman’s own. […]
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Long-Term Criminality and the Superhero’s Superego
(…continued from “Nature, Nurture, and the Kryptonite Bomb”) We know many predictors of long-term criminality, factors that correlate with repeated lawbreaking. Among juvenile delinquents, those who did not start engaging in antisocial actions until adolescence tend to outgrow that behavior, whereas those who engaged in pre-adolescent antisocial actions do not. People who repeatedly break the […]
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SFX Magazine Interview by Bonnie Burton: Cosplay or Can’t Play – Adrianne Curry, Katrina Hill, Victoria Schmidt
For her first SFX Magazine column, Bonnie Burton looked at how cosplay at fan conventions differs for women, and somehow discussion with her three interviews kept whirling through one big question:
Why Slave Leia?
The interviewer:
* Bonnie Burton – senior and online convent developer at the official Star Wars blog (http://starwarsblog.starwars.com). Her personal blog appears at http://grrl.com. […]
