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This weekend, Marty Krofft passed away from kidney failure at age 86. With his older brother Sid, the brothers founded Sid & Marty Krofft...
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This weekend, Marty Krofft passed away from kidney failure at age 86. With his older brother Sid, the brothers founded Sid & Marty Krofft...
There is a special toast they make on The Halcyon (a luxury cruise spaceship that is one of the fleet of the Chandrila Starline)...
UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. Four years ago, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock Art, Music, and overflowing portable toilet festival,...
Written by Kristen Baver Published by DK Publishing In a franchise that’s created thousands upon thousands of objects that have appeared before our...
… ESTIMATION OF THE AUDIENCE, OF COURSE. I have to assume that most of you who read these screeds are at least marginally aware...
Just when I’m done with Star Wars, it seems Star Wars is never done with me. How else can I explain still checking out...
The most widespread behaviors, things, and ideas in a society are the building blocks of what is known as popular culture. The effect of...
NECA, LLC’s global collector’s event, Haulathon, is returning in 2023 with all-new exclusive figures and never before seen collectibles from NECA and Kidrobot. This...
Written by Bruce Scivally Published by McFarland Bruce Scivally’s Superman on Film, Television, Radio, and Broadway is a super book! There’s no more...
Written by Benjamin L. Clark, Nat Gertler, and The Charles M. Schulz Museum Published by Weldon Owen Rather than straightforward biographical narratives, there’s a...
(With no apologies whatsoever to that fucking Norman Podhoretz.) I’ve told the story frequently, if not incessantly, of how I was introduced to comic...
Award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor has written the definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. Lee’s extraordinary...
Global celebrations for DC’s Batman will once again span the globe as fans celebrate the World’s Greatest Detective, and the over 80 years of...
Written by by Mathew Klickstein Foreword by Stan Sakai Foreword by Jeff Smith Afterword by RZA Published by Fantatgraphics Books First of all,...
As YouTube’s The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak plays the polymath, posing questions and providing answers across a wide range of fields—from the power of a...
Well Now, Just Hold On There a Minute… I’m a longtime member of a spiritual fellowship, a rambling, disorganized and inept quasi-organization, of which...
No era, no civilization, no society has ever had a premium on mediocrity. It has always been with us—or one must assume this is...
Superman is one of the most iconic superheroes of all time. He first appeared in 1938 and has become a pop culture phenomenon since...
From editor, literary critic and screenwriter Noa Menhaim comesThe Life Fantastic: Myth, History, Pop and Folklore in the Making of Western Culture, a witty...
Edited by John Darowski Published by McFarland & Company This is a tough one. Unfortunately, Adapting Superman—Essays on the Transmedia Man of Steel,...
Written by Roy Schwartz Published by McFarland Is Superman Circumcised? is a terrible, exploitative title for Roy Schwartz’s book which is subtitled, The...
Welcome once again to our annual Holiday Gift Guide! Whether you’re a first time reader or regular friend of FOG!, we hope that you...
Just saw No Time To Die and…um, so…all the “controversy” surrounding it was clearly a marketing scheme, right? Like, there aren’t REALLY any dinosaurs...
MOVIES Gal Gadot To Play Evil Queen In Disney’s Live-Action Snow White Taika Waititi To Adapt Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Graphic Novel The Incal As Film...