Tune in Tomorrow...
Updated: 2010-09-10 06:37:00
: . Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , September 9, 2010 Tune in Tomorrow . Thursday is the busy day for me here at the seminary , so . no significant post . However , tomorrow I should I hope finally put up the book review for The Stoneholding by James G . Anderson and Mark Sebanc , a review that's been too long in coming . The review will discuss not only the book but some wider issues about sf in general that I hope will be worth reading , so tune in possibly late tomorrow for our next book review . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 11:37 PM Labels : updates Tune in Tomorrow . Thursday is the busy day for me here at the seminary , so . no significant post . However , tomorrow I should I hope finally put up the
It looks like at long last, Stephen King’s The Dark Tower saga is going to get dramatic treatment. How the frak the massive canon that is Dark Tower will be delivered on screen is beyond our small brains. Apparently there will be at least three movies and also a TV series to help fill in [...]
Syfy – may the gods bless you! SO SAY WE ALL!! Syfy has moved the return of Caprica up from January to October!! That’s right, we won’t have to wait until 2011 for our Caprica fix. “Though we initially announced the January return of Caprica, we still had hopes of finding a way to get [...]
Like everyone else, we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Star Wars The Old Republic MMO game this year (we hope!). So we’re gobbling up every little tidbit we can, including the Dark Horse comic book series. The first story arc of the Old Republic comic, a three issue set titled, “Threat of Peace” has [...]
First things first – Chris Scalf the artist on this issue – and he truly is an artist – is one of the finest artists in comics today. With Blood Ties #1 Scalf gives us — the lucky readers – with a visual feast of brilliantly painted artwork that is breathtaking to look at. The [...]
FINALLY! After three issue of being ‘lost’ Saturn Girl and Lighting Lad get back their twin boys. Why were they taken? something to do with Mordu..but it’s really quite unclear. Overally this issue, and this series is a bit confusing to follow on an issue by issue basis, with too many sub-plots getting too little [...]
So far, the Star Wars Fate of the Jedi series has been interesting, but each book leaves us feeling a bit cheated – and Allies is no exception. Yes there are some AWESOME sequence in this book, but there are also sooooooo very many issues that make no sense whatsoever as well. Vestara and Ben [...]
We’ve long been big fans of alternate universes/history. Now we’ve got (yet another) Superman alternate reality, this time it’s one in which Jor-El didn’t send his baby son Kal-El to Earth all alone. This time the whole El family comes to Earth! It’s a great twist to see how things develop and how the Kent’s [...]
Star Wars Legacy #50 was supposed to be the final issue of Star Wars Legacy. BUT IT’S NOT. The sleemos at Dark Horse are only putting the series on hiatus and then coming back at us with a ‘mini-series’ in december. Yeaah that’s low-ball Hutt scum territory. Instead of continuing the series for another 6 [...]
The greatest Star Wars story (outside of the original movies) ever told is coming to an end.. TODAY. Today the last issue of Star Wars Legacy ships – and yes we’re very sad. Legacy is THE REASON why we got back into comics. Issue #0 (with that awesome pic of Darth Talon on the cover) [...]
We’ve been fans of the Star Wars Fate of the Jedi series so far — sure we can’t afford to buy the hardcovers (so we get ‘em from the public library–unlike paperbacks which we buy..), but it’s worth the wait in most cases. This one is mostly about Dathomir and what happens on that planet..yeaah [...]
alrighty at long last (and thanks to Amazon’s video on demand) We’ve now finally caught up and seen the final two episodes of Matt Smith’s inaugural season as Doctor Who. The Pandorica Opens – was brilliant wasn’t it? a box made to contain the most dangerous thing in the universe – which turns out to [...]
What’s wrong with the management at SyFy? This week they announced that Caprica would be returning for the second half of its first season — ok that’s good news – but that SUCKY news is that the second half of the first season won’t air till 2011. What the FRAK is the point? Why string [...]
Misfits of Scifi It's alive . It's ALIIIIIIIVE Books Comic Books DVD Movies Other Nerdery Television Video Games RSS Feed Twitter Books Archive Dear Dan Brown Posted on September 23, 2009 No Comments Dear Dan Brown , I read Angels Demons and thought it was an excellent book fast based , engaging and interesting . I read The DaVinci Code and enjoyed it almost as much as Angels Demons it was a pleasure , even if some of . Full Story Destination Sci-Fi : Misfit hot spots Posted on August 6, 2008 No Comments Well , cadets , we're already in the final month of summer . Scary , I know . Some of you have undoubtedly gone away on vacation of some sort since Memorial Day . Others , like myself , well . not so much . But it's a pretty safe bet that you're not on vacation now because , well , you're
We’ve become big fans of Iain M Banks and his Culture novels (recently we reviewed Player of Games). Inversions is a very different book in that the Culture never actually shows up. There are no big grand ships or Orbitals…but there is an old dagger in the Doctor’s boot which obviously is a Knife-Missile. The [...]
Patrick Stewart celebrates his 70th birthday today! Sure Stewart was an actor long before Star Trek TNG made him into a SciFi icon. We remember well watching him as the evil Sejanus in I,Claudius (1974..) ..but for us here at ShowMeSciFi.com..it is his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard which we will always think off first. [...]
It’s hard to believe and accept that Star Wars Legacy is almost done. Issue #49 is the second last issue and there is so much left undiscovered and unresolved. So we’ve got Cade still on a Sith killing mission and that’s great, he’s now on Utapau knocking down the sith and he’ll come in contact [...]
Superman #700 – wow..how many titles last so long? This is an omnibus with a few interesting stories – and a few not so interesting ones. There is a ‘cute’ little story about Superman helping out Robin (Dick Grayson) which we enjoyed. On the – not so enjoyable side — Superman after the monumental events [...]
Legion of Super Heroes #2 is an interesting – though confusing issue. Saturn Girl is still looking for here missing kids and then out of nowhere we get Saturn Queen wrecking the Legion with her mind control. Saturn Queen? The writers seem to be on a bent to introduce as many legionaires as possible in [...]
So…we finally got the FINAL issue of Buck Rogers, and we finally got around to reading it. IT SUCKS. IT’S a HORRIBLE WAY TO END A FINE SERIES. Dynamite Entertainment the publishers of this series should be ashamed of themselves. They had such a great character, a neat twist and some awesome visuals and they [...]
We’re off to outer space. We’re leaving Mother Earth. To save the human race. Our Star Blazers. Remember that show? we sure do, it was one of our fav cartoons growing up. Now after years of waiting its finally coming to the big screen, but only in Japan – and no this isn’t the Disney [...]
Misfits of Scifi It's alive . It's ALIIIIIIIVE Books Comic Books DVD Movies Other Nerdery Television Video Games RSS Feed Twitter DVD Archive Sneak Peek at DC’s Batman : Under The Red Hood’ Posted on June 24, 2010 1 Comment DC Comics has been upping their direct-to-DVD animation game lately . Full Story Archives Select Month September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 July 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org About Arras Theme Copyright Misfits
We’re relatively new fans of Iain M. Banks and his awesome Culture series (previously we’ve reviewed Consider Phlebas, , Use of Weapons,and Look to Windward). Plainly put, The Player of Games is one of the best of the bunch, second only to Consider Phlebas. This is such an extraordinary story, a clash of civilization, yes [...]
Surprisingly SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL #4 is a very good comic. We get a glimpse of a future Metropolis and Superman, that we rarely see…one that has been beaten by both time and Luthor. Luthor is the mayor-for-life of Metropolis and he’s feeding the people of the city with trace amounts of kyrptonite so Kal-El can barely [...]
We love Serenity/Firefly here as much as anyone — and sure Wash has always been one of our favs too. Which is why we thought that Serentiy Float Out – mostly sucked. Previous Dark Horse Serenity comics have been awesome – but not this one. Context is lacking from the very beginning so we don’t [...]
Incursion Part 2 the Season 1 cliffhanger for Stargate Universe was a DUMB episode wasn’t it? Why didn’t Young storm the gateroom? WTF? Why would he surrender control? so Rush could MAYBE get it back? Just seems dumb. And TJ dead? What’s up with that? Most likely she’s lost the baby – but hopefully she’ll [...]
WOW. KRIFFING WOW. So much action and plot in this issue, it’s nearly impossible to think of anything to say other than.. WOW. Cade is one serious Sith hunting machine now – he is the ultimate sith/jedi hybrid and we doubt there is any force in the universe that can stop him now. The princess [...]
We didn’t care all that much for Star Wars Invasion when it first came out. So now Dark Horse has come back with this series – renumbering it to #1 – should be #5…but it’s actually… KINDA GOOD. We’ve got some kick but females in command of a Vong cruiser causing havok. We’ve got a [...]
Gotta hand it to the BBC – they’ve got a real winner with Matt Smith and the new Doctor Who. They’re now taking the great new Doctor and the lovely Ms. Pond to the next level though with a series of free downloadable adventure games. The first one looks like great fun too.. Filed under: [...]
Jean-Luc Picard, Prof X – or just plain Patrick Stewart, the man is a living legend and now he’s been Knighted by the Queen of the England. Congrats Sir Patrick! How many other great SciFi actors have been knighted? Well we know of Sir Alec Guiness (Ben Kenobi) of course…but beyond that the list gets [...]