"Well, I never had a chance, did I? I chose the wrong parents." IN THIS ONE... Liberator finds a subjugated Federation colony with a puppet ruler. REVIEW: The first of five episodes written b...
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Siskoid Cinema presents... On Borrowed Time, the shows that explores time travel in movies. On this episode, Siskoid and Rolled Spine's Diabolu Frank discuss 1984's Trancers, a B-movie that only...
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STORY: "The Destructor" in The Destructor #1 (February 1975) CREATIVE TEAM: Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko and Wally Wood ALTAS' ANALOG FOR: Spider-Man, kind of, but cut from the same cloth as the...
A.J. and Siskoid continue their exploration of Big Finish's Doctor Who audios that feature other Time Lords with The Chaos Pool, part three of the Key2Time series, starring the 5th Doctor and in...
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"Accomplishments" In theaters: From its first shot, The First Omen is already evoking the original film's aesthetic, whether it's white skies over 70s America or the golden sun of Rome. But b...
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WHO'S THIS? The Nuclear Man. THE FACTS: Firestorm, the Nuclear Man debuted with his own #1 cover-dated March of 1978 by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, a hero who could rub shoulders with DC's mo...
Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. The last card pulled from Haven wasn't reviewed in the origina...
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From "Superman's Secret Revealed" by Jerry Siegel, John Sikela and Ed Dobrotka, Superman #20 (February 1943) Jack Schiff takes over as editor and BAM, Batman and Robin are in the comic. Well, ...
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"The Officer Corps will forgive anything it can understand. Which makes intelligence about the only sin." IN THIS ONE... Servalan gets her hands on a secret weapon. REVIEW: Boucher's second s...
An organ in a jar. A computer tyrant. A green Legionnaire. A cone head. Psychic father and son. Which are hot, which are not? The Girls of the Hot Squad continue their assessment of Who's Who...
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STORY: "The Death's Gemini Commission" in The Scorpion #1 (February 1975) CREATIVE TEAM: Howard Chaykin (with Annette Kawbecki on lettering) ALTAS' ANALOG FOR: None, but Chaykin would turn him ...
"ACCOMPLISHMENTS" In theaters: Dev Patel writes his own ticket and the result is Monkey Man, a gritty, grimy action flick that's part Greengrass' Jason Bourne, part John Wick, and part Golden...
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WHO'S THIS? A sneezy hero. THE FACTS: A founding member of the Legion of Substitute-Heroes (as per LSH #306, March 1963), Fire Lad could breathe fire from his mouth, which meant he was shit ou...
Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. Haven also gave us a mission and it isn't Arranged Marriage......
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From Captain Triumph: "Introducing Captain Triumph!" by Alfred Andriola, Crack Comics #27 (January 1943) Though it is derivative of Captain Marvel with its lightning-strike transformations, I ...
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"Law makers, law breakers, let us fight them all, why not?" IN THIS ONE... Blake tries to recruit, hire or force an organized crime syndicate to his cause. REVIEW: Finally, an episode not plo...
Siskoid and Chris Franklin's coverage of The Brave and the Bold continues with issue #112 (May 1974) by Bob Haney and Jim Aparo, starring Batman and Mister Miracle! It's "The Impossible Escape"!...
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STORY: "The Wolf-Cowled Head-Hunters of Amun-Rak" in Iron Jaw #3 (May 1975) CREATIVE TEAM: Michael Fleisher and Pablo Marcos (Alan Kupperberg is on lettering) ALTAS' ANALOG FOR: Conan the Barba...
"ACCOMPLISHMENTS" In theaters: Director Adam Wingard promised that Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire was a monster movie from the perspective of the monsters rather than the humans (who are ra...
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WHO'S THIS? The Emerald Lady. THE FACTS: Lady Emerald was the leader of one of Gemworld's great houses (first appearing in Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld #4, August 1983). Corrupted by a demo...
Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. We get three cards from Haven... EXPANSION: Premiere PICTU...
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From Midnight: "The Absent Minded Corpse!" by Paul Gustavson, Smash Comics #39 (January 1943) The age-old question (cough, cough). Don't expect anything too clever in this article. Don't even ...
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"From now on, we're just passengers." IN THIS ONE... The people who built the Liberator have come to take it back! REVIEW: A new series begins with only a few cosmetic changes. A new wardrobe...
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On this episode of Panel by Panel! Siskoid and special guest Daniel "Pout" Ouellet make an emergency recording and with almost no preparation, cover a panel from Fialkov and Chamberlain's collag...
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Atlas Comics - not Marvel's previous name, but the comics line that sprang up in the 1970s - fascinated me from a young age. As I was often fascinated by 70s-only comics whenever I found them in...
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