DVD Review: Midsomer Murders: Set 9

by | Sep 26, 2007 | TV

Midsomer Murders is based on the work of mystery author Caroline Graham. Midsomer County apparently is home to more vile homicidal lunatics than all five boroughs of New York combined. Now before you start to conjure images of a lawless frontier land, let me say that...

Roarin' Rick's RARE BIT FIENDS

by | Sep 25, 2007 | Features

Rick Veitch has done some amazing work over the years. GREYSHIRT, BRAT PACK, ARMY @ LOVE, THE ONE and his run on SWAMP THING are all worth picking up. But my favorite book of his was an odd little “dream comic” called RARE BIT FIENDS. The premise was...

DVD Releases for Sept 25th.

by | Sep 25, 2007 | Features

Babel Special Collector’s Edition (2006) Dir.: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu; Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho, Elle Fanning. Two-disc set. Extras: “Common Ground: Under Construction Notes.” (Paramount).This two DVD version...

Trade Reviews

by | Sep 24, 2007 | Comics, Reviews

Batman – Secrets of the Batcave DC Comics This is a fun collection of Batman tales that involve the cave and it’s history. Going back to the 40’s we get diagrams of what the cave has looked like over the years, and stories that tell us about some of the trophies. It’s...

Neal's Picks

by | Sep 24, 2007 | Comics

Ratings Story: How well the issue worked as a story of its own. Art: How well the art fit the particular story being told. Not necessarily a measure of how “good” the art was. Fun: An incredibly subjective measure of the number of surprises in any given...

The Wild Geese to be remade.

by | Sep 21, 2007 | Films

Some folks have decided to remake The Wild Geese. Based on the Novel The Thin White Line, TWG featured Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Richard Burton as British ex-soldiers are hired to overthrow a brutal African dictator. The folks that hired them then make a deal...

Proposed Preacher series moving forward??

by | Sep 20, 2007 | Features, TV

From Wikipedia:”Preacher tells the story of Jesse Custer, a down-and-out preacher in the small Texas town of Annville. Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named ‘Genesis’ in an incident which killed his entire congregation...