I won’t be reviewing it (unless we receive many requests), but once again, geek icons Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will be appearing on Canadian teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation. According to Smith’s site, their return to the show will take place November 28 and December 5.
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Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Star Wars and Science
Lucas always identified Star Wars as science fantasy, but a current exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science uses the series to teach real science.
The “Dawn of a New Space Age”– Apply Within!
We stand at what one NASA official calls the “dawn of a new space age,” and commercial spacecraft will play a part. Perhaps the worn-out predictions of jobs in space and grizzled pilots at the space station bar will soon become a reality
Ant-man to the rescue?
Marvel’s had its share of difficulties before. Can films on lesser-known characters save them?
Novel Review: King Kong
A brand new novelization of King Kong exists to support Peter Jackson’s epic remake, which will be hitting theatres soon. The original novelization has lapsed into public domain, however, and should be easy to find in the coming months. Delos W. Lovelace adapted it from Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper’s screenplay, and it hit the stores in 1932, before the finished film appeared. The book can hardly be called great literature, but it nicely captures the spirit of the original film.
Fantastic Four 40th Wedding Anniversary Special
This comic special, released forty years after Reed Richards and Sue Storm tied the knot, provides a striking example of the changes in comics during the last four decades.
New millenium cybermen revealed
Review– Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1
If you find the recently released Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be a little out of your price range (or your geek completist range) but you still want some series Trek in your collection, consider Season One of the Original. It suffers from a low budget and stylized acting, but it set the groundwork for most tv SF that followed, and it remains the most inspired season of any Star Trek.
Novel review: Virtual Light
William Gibson kicked off his Bridge Trilogy with this 1993 book, set in the future year of… 2005!
Grave of Copernicus
If you missed this last week:
the grave of Copernicus, the 16-century astronomer who advanced the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, has likely been located.