by John Robinson | Dec 21, 2020 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future, Managers
Commentary by Dan W. 2004 was a good year to be a Conan fan. Publishing house Del Rey was in the midst of publishing three excellent collections of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan pulp stories (removing all the edits L. Sprague de Camp introduced in the Lancer...
by John Robinson | May 20, 2020 | The Thing Is..
by Rick Lundeen In 2015, with the clock running out on Fox’s possession of the rights to the Fantastic Four on film, they decided to film another one at the eleventh hour, thus keeping the FF hostage at Fox for another seven years. The calibre of film was a bit...
by John Robinson | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future
Commentary by Sean H. If you ask the average reader for the best Superman origin story, you’re likely to get one of two answers. Superman Secret Origin by Doomsday Clock dream team Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, or Superman Birthright by Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu...
by John Robinson | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
In 2007, Fox got the band back together to try and improve on the modest profit the first FF film netted. All the pluses and minuses of the first movie (FF good, Doom is crap, some fun and action, no EPIC feel), were all copied and pasted into Fantastic Four: Rise of...
by John Robinson | Apr 28, 2020 | The Thing Is..
by Rick Lundeen In 2005, Fox tried to launch an FF series of movies to go along with their popular X-men franchise. It made total sense, as when you think of the Crown Jewels of Marvel franchise properties, Spider-man was already 2 films in over at SONY and Fox had a...
