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Cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel Interview Each Other
FOG! Chats With Howard Chaykin About The Return of ‘TIME²’
Marty Krofft (1937 – 2023); Gen X’s King of Saturday Morning Television
Once Upon a Time in Gotham: FOG! Chats With Academy-Award Winning Writer John Ridley
FOG! Chats With John Walsh, Author of ‘The Wicker Man: The Official Story of The Film’
Upcoming DC Comics Alternate Covers Spotlight José Luis García-López 1982 Style Guide
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
Boston’s Coolidge Corner Theater Reopens After Extensive Renovations
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘One From the Heart: Reprise’ on Digital April 9 & 4K Blu-ray May 7
Upcoming DC Comics Alternate Covers Spotlight José Luis García-López 1982 Style Guide
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘One From the Heart: Reprise’ on Digital April 9 & 4K Blu-ray May 7
‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Arrives on Digital 4/12; Blu-ray 4/23
Sneak Peek: ‘Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Art of The Movie’
TwoMorrows’ Reveals ‘It Rose From The Tomb’
FOG! Exclusive! ‘Happy Days: The Official Cookbook’ Serves Up Some Very Cool Recipes
FOG! Exclusive! First Look at ‘John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando: Rise of the Sludge God #1′ From Dark Horse Comics!
Read an Excerpt From ‘Aliens: Bishop’ by T. R. Napper
Craig Yoe Launches Autobiographical Comic, ‘Woman & Man’ on Kickstarter!
The Folio Society: ‘DC: Batman’ (review)
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
First Look: ‘Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga: Iron Man: The Art of the Movie’
Toho Reveals Upcoming Godzilla Day Promotions!
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
The Forces of Geek 2023 Back to School Gift Guide
‘Superman: The Movie’ Web3 Experience: Multimedia Living Movie Experience from WBHE and Eluvio Available Today!
How Pop Culture Is Shaping Our Digital Lives
Welcome To The Forces of Geek 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
‘Civil War’ (review)
‘The Triplets of Belleville’ aka ‘Les triplettes de Belleville’ (Blu-ray review)
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Monkey Man’ (review)
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
‘Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years’ Celebrates Prince’s Most Iconic Album and Film
‘New Kids on the Block 40th Anniversary Celebration’ – New Book Relives NKOTB’s Rise to Superstardom
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces ‘The Color Purple’
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ 4K UHD (review)
FOG! Chats With The King of Comics Kayfabe, Ed Piskor, About the ‘Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus’
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Jack Quaid to star in Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski’s ‘Grim Death & The Electrocuted Criminal’ Audio Podcast
Listen! ‘You Already Know’ Podcast Episode 1: “Akoins”
Podcasts Celebrating Television’s Past
‘Cartoon Logic’ Podcast Launches
‘Doom Patrol: The Fourth and Final Season’ Comes to DVD & Blu-ray on April 9th
‘Andor’ S1, ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, ‘Moon Knight’ S1 and ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’ S1 Coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray For The First Time!
‘Shōgun’: Clavell’s Epic is Updated For Our Time… Maybe For All Time (television review)
‘Three Little Birds’ (TV Mini-Series review)
‘That Girl: The Complete Series’ (DVD review)
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ (SXSW review)
PAX Commemorates 20th Anniversary, East Returns to Boston March 21-24, 2024
Toho Reveals Upcoming Godzilla Day Promotions!
Titan Books Set To Publish ‘Epic’ RuneScape Novels From May 2024
FOG! Chats With Gaming Legend John Romero About His New Autobiography, ‘DOOM Guy: Life in First Person’
Blue Man Group: New Acts, Same Hue (theater review)
‘Tis An A Faire To Remember!: FOG!’s Benn and Liz Robbins Revisit Carvershire
‘Cirque du Solei Boston Presents ‘Twas The Night Before …(review)
Star Wars Celebration 2022: A New Hope
Hayao Miyazaki: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition Catalog (review)
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes for ‘Sting’
Boston Geeks! We’ve Got Passes To See The First Two Episodes of ‘Fallout’
Boston! We’ve Got Passes To ‘Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom’ in 3D!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘The Creator’ Starring John David Washington
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘Expend4ables’ Starring Stallone, Statham, Dolph and Fiddy
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
One of the things missing this holiday season, other than the once time-honored socializing in person with others not part of one’s pandemic pod—again!—is...
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t...
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
My thinking about the somewhat unprecedented uninviting this past week of a much-celebrated American comic book talent, by a comic book convention in the...
When and if there is a future, a time in which there is enough distance and detachment to observe, analyze and write with dispassion...
To be clear–Jack Kirby inadvertently, and to his everlasting dismay, invented the brand we’ve come to identify as “Stan Lee.” Stan Lee the writer/editor...
Like a lot of comic book enthusiasts, I spent much of my misspent youth reading dystopic, end of or post end of the world...
It all starts with P.G. WODEHOUSE—although I didn’t find him ‘til much later—but the three guys here are, to varying degrees, his spiritual sons,...
I’ve told the story before, and to be honest, all too frequently, so if you’ve heard it before, be patient and bear with me....
My kid brother—I’m sixty-eight, he’s sixty-four, so who am I kidding with this kid brother shit?—is a serious horseplayer. I have no idea what...
The trade paperback collecting issues one through five of HEY KIDS! COMICS! hits the shelves on February 13th. For those of you who’ve been...
To be clear…I’m a well-regarded and welcome guest at comic book conventions—and as those who meet me at shows have heard endlessly, my belief...
So, early last month I was invited to be a guest at the SDCC in 2019. I was more than a little surprised, since...
“…Ah, but it’s cold outside.” And apparently getting colder. Do I feel a kind of perverse pride in my uncanny prescience in getting ahead...
The fifth issue-which wraps up what I hope will be the first of three arcs of HEY KIDS! COMICS!—hit many of your comic book...
Forgive an old man for a slipping memory. Here’s an addendum, and not necessarily the last such, to the lists that preceded it… ...
This time I’m covering other genres, the outliers, and the oops, I slipped on this one or that one. I’m sure there are authors...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...