Dennis O’Neil: Arrows
So okay, we can get our superhero fix without leaving the house. (And isn’t this what we all desire? And pass the chips…) SyFy’s Alphas, which is watchable, is back doing its weekly thing and this...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Green Arrow and Lance Armstrong
Okay, sue me. Last week I blathered on about trying to know as little as possible about movies and television shows before seeing them. So comes Wednesday, the day the new Green Arrow series, catchily...
View ArticleEmily S. Whitten: What I’m Watching – Arrow
I love TV shows, but sometimes I’m terrible at keeping up with them. As with comics, I tend to skip a few weeks and then mainline three or four episodes in a row, mostly because I hate getting just a...
View ArticleEmily S. Whitten: More Arrow, and Hooray Halloween!
Never let it be said that I won’t change my mind if circumstances change. In that vein, I’m starting today’s column with a little addition to last week’s thoughts on Arrow. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!)...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Can We Be Heroes?
Well! They are certainly biting the dust, aren’t they, these “heroes”? A few weeks ago, I lamented the steroid-fueled fall from grace of that bicycling phenom, Lance Armstrong. And for quite a while...
View ArticleTHE BOOK CAVE SETS ITS SIGHTS ON THE CW’S ARROW!
Stephen Amell as Arrow Art Sippo wasn’t able to join The Book Cave this week due to work obligations. Rumor has it that his experiment escaped and the villagers were approaching with torches and...
View ArticleEmily S. Whitten: My Twelve Vows of New Year’s
As of today, it is officially 2013; and there’s nothing we can do about that, so we may as well enjoy it! There’s nothing like a song to ring in the new year, and nothing like some resolutions (that...
View ArticleAlex Kingston joining cast of CW’s “Arrow”
Entertainment Weekly reports that Alex Kingston (ER, Doctor Who) will be joining the cast of The CW series Arrow, based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow. Kingston will join the cast as Dinah...
View ArticleEmily S. Whitten: The Dresden Files and The Dresden Files
For Christmas this year one of the books I got was The Dresden Files graphic novel, Welcome to the Jungle. By that point, I’d read all of the novels; but what got me into them was actually the TV...
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
A few weeks back, an esteemed colleague of mine (oddly enough this time, not Mike Gold…) pitched a debate for my podcast: “Have nerds won? And if they have… is it a good thing?” Well, it was a great...
View ArticleDENNIS O’NEIL: The Slings of Arrow
Sauntering through Digitalville, sipping news and trivia like a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower, looking for nothing in particular, except maybe an idea for something to write about. Anything...
View ArticleMike Gold: Burning Questions
Tired, cranky, and on-deadline with an empty thought balloon hovering over my head. But I have these questions that are keeping me up nights, questions that must be answered. For example: 1) Who’s got...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Should Superheroes Booze It Up?
So there they were on the small screen, Oliver Queen and his main man, knocking back vodka shots and there I was, riding the couch and being maybe a bit befuddled, remembering that an MD once told me...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: Superhero Haute Couture
We’re not always aces when it comes to accurate prophecy, we comic book pundits, though we shouldn’t hang our collective head too far down because prophecy doesn’t seem to be anybody’s strong point....
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: A WONDERful Problem To Debate
Don’t you love when a spoiler leaks to we, the misbegotten nerds, and suddenly the Internet is on fire? I sure do. And nothing has gotten our ragespew a flowin’ in recent memory like the potential...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: The Talia al Ghul I Know… and The Sister I Don’t
I was surprised to learn that Talia has a sister. Understand, Talia and I go back a long way. I first encountered her in a script I was writing for Detective 411. I really didn’t know much about...
View ArticleJohn Ostrander: Up Against the Waller
It’s always interesting to see your children grow up. In my case I don’t have any flesh and blood children; I have the offspring of my imagination, of my heart and mind – the characters I’ve created...
View ArticleMarc Alan Fishman: “Dear Gotham…”
My dearest Gotham, I saw that you prematurely showed yourself to the world. It’s OK to be a tease. I can forgive that. But I couldn’t help myself… I was a voyeur to your little show. What can I say? I...
View ArticleJohn Ostrander: Television – Coming, Going, and Staying
The word is getting out on the end of this TV season and what’s coming for the start of the next. A lot of the shows, hit or miss, are not things that I watch. Some of them are very good shows – or so...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: SHIELD, Arrow, and Superstuff
Both prime time comic-book based television series had their season finales this week, a day or two after I write this, and so any commentary on them might be premature. I mean, maybe some humungous...
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