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...
Comics: Keu Cha on Hex: The Lost Tribe
I first met Keu Cha about a decade ago, just after he accepted his first major assignment, penciling Witchblade for Top Cow. I still remember being blown away by his highly detailed, stylish approach to that character and her world. As is typical, he moved on from there, taking on one plum assignment after another, including J. Michael Straczynski’s Rising...
Books: Tom Kaczynski on Uncivilized Books
As briefly mentioned at the end our previous conversation, the indefatigable Tom Kaczynski is more than a gifted comics creator. He’s also the publisher and driving force behind Uncivilized Books, an upstart press specializing in comics collections and original graphic novels. Now, if you happen to be a regular reader of this column and that imprint sounds familiar, that’s likely...
Books: Gary Scott Beatty on Tales of Fear
Gary Scott Beatty is someone whose work I’ve been following with real interest for the past few years. Not that I ignored him before that. Rather, it’s his recent activities, especially as a small press publisher with a singular vision that makes total sense in today’s fluid market, that’s proven to be particularly interesting. What really captured my attention was...
Books: Warren Ellis on Gun Machine
While he’s widely recognized by comics aficionados as the author of such critically acclaimed hit series as Planetary, Transmetropolitan and Astonishing X-Men, Warren Ellis is perhaps best known by the general public as the co-creator of RED, a three-issue comic mini-series that saw life as a rather successful film starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich. But there’s another...
Books: Tom Kaczynski on Beta Testing the Apocalypse
The release of Tom Kaczynski’s latest book couldn’t have been better timed. Published by Fantagraphics late last year right around the time of the highly anticipated (not to mention greatly misunderstood) Mayan “end of days,” Kaczynski’s Beta Testing the Apocalypse collected a number of previously published shorter comics, along with a brand new graphic novella. And while there really weren’t...