Kiernan Shipka who grew up on Mad Men playing Sally Draper, will star in the forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This is the adult-oriented Archie occult comic that presents Sabrina as a genuinely horrifying witch-child coming of age in the 1960s (though the TV show may be set in the present).
B42 Site News
January 5, 2018
List Challenges permanent link now live
W. Blaine Dowler List Challenge B42 Site News
The Bureau 42 List Challenges now have a home in the “Links” section of the website, on the right hand side of the site on a desktop or the bottom if you are on mobile. I intend to post once a month to discuss progress. Does that schedule work for everyone?
November 28, 2016
Manga Review: Yumekui Kenbun, Nightmare Inspector – Volume 2
Continuing with the somewhat belated horror manga with Volume 2 of Nightmare Inspector. More…
September 5, 2016
Manga Review: 20th Century Boys – Volume 12
This time I’m returning to Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys with volume 12. More…
June 8, 2016
Podcast Schedule Change Announcement: New, altered, and ending schedules
W. Blaine Dowler B42 Site News
When I started podcasting, I was single and living alone. That is no longer true. My amazing fiancee and her kids now live with me, schedules have changed at work, and I ultimately have less time to create and consume podcasts than I used to. What exactly this means is described in this announcement podcast, and in the text below.
May 28, 2016
New “Hitchhiker’s Guide” Comes to BBC Radio
Douglas Adams’ influential The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy started its long life as a radio show, before becoming a series of novels, graphic novels, a TV series, a movie, and the inspiration behind a nerdy website’s name. Now Eoin Colfer’s continuation of Adams’ series, And Another Thing will be adapted as a British radio show, bringing things full circle. Adams’ widow approves. What does everyone else think?
February 25, 2016
Marvel’s Agent Carter Review: “The Edge of Mystery” and “A Little Song and Dance”
Marvel’s Agent Carter delivers another pair of back-to-back episodes as Jarvis takes direct action, and Team Carter face Whitney Frost, Jack Thompson, Vernon Masters and some not-especially-competent mobsters.
February 14, 2016
TMNT (2007): Silver Screen Superheroes
W. Blaine Dowler B42 Site News
Alex continues to fill in on the Silver Screen Superheroes podcast. This time around, he’s discussing the 2007 CGI incarnation of TMNT, which can be heard here.
November 17, 2015
Trailer Park Tuesday – November 17, 2015
A quick round-up featuring Finding Dory, Gods of Egypt, Moonwalkers, Warcraft, and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
April 1, 2018
The Terror Review: “Go for Broke” and “Gore”
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The new series, based on Dan Simmons’s historical horror novel, blew onto AMC last week, and continues Monday. The Terror presents a fictionalized dramatization of the Franklin Expedition’s final months, and includes an element not found in any history book….
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