It has been 75 years since Captain America first hit the pages of Timely Comics, suiting up in red, white, and blue to combat the Nazi menace with the help of a strength-enhancing super soldier serum. A lot has changed in the seven-and-a-half decades since: Timely Comics begat Marvel Comics, Captain America became an Avenger, […]
It’s been almost 12 years since a science fiction or fantasy film got any major love at Oscar time (and prior to that, it had been…uhm, basically never). Peter Jackson’s butt-busting adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s equally epic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went home with the Best Picture prize, and grabbed […]
Ten years ago this month, DC Comics ended the critically-acclaimed Gotham Central. Today, the influence of both the seres and its creators is very much in evidence.