It’s been my mission the past year or so to seek out the cool, geeky things that I have inadvertently passed over. It’s what brought me to watch all seven seasons of Buffy last fall, because enough of my friends had seen it and liked it that I thought I should give it a [...]
After a long wait, Season 2 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has started up again, and I could not be happier. Season 1 ended on a high note as the animation advanced and the stories took on more dramatic heft, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting new episodes all summer. The fact that the season [...]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer only ever held a passing interest for me. I watched it briefly during my high school days in reruns, the end of Season 3 and start of Season 4, but I had a hard time reconciling the soap opera elements with the fantasy elements. (Of course, I wasn’t too [...]
If you consider yourself a Star Wars fan and you haven’t been watching The Clone Wars, now is a good time to get back on board.
The first season is about to be available on DVD and Blu-ray in November. While the show often seems rough and unfinished — particularly in the first ten episodes, [...]
by Benton Sartore
The holiday season is often an unfortunate time of year for the Star Wars franchise, because it’s a time of year that the marketing ambitions of the Lucas empire are nakedly laid for all to see. It’s a season that marks some of Star Wars’ biggest blunders on the rush to [...]
by Benton Sartore
Heroes Comics, Volume 1
DC Comics, 2007
Are you a fan of the television drama “Heroes” who needs more than your weekly fix? The show already has an easy in with comic book nerds — ordinary people find out they have superpowers — and so it’s a natural that the show would turn to comic books [...]