Star Trek Voyager: Unworthy
In my opinion, Star Trek: Voyager was by far the weakest of the Star Trek TV series. I felt that the show never lived up to its premise (of the difficulties one lone starship would face, all on their own eighty thousand light-years from home), and even more disappointingly, I felt t
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First up, a big thank-you to everyone who has backed the kickstarter for the Jewish Comix Anthology! This 250-page hardcover will feature the work of 47 Jewish artists, including Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Joe Kubert… and me! There’s only
Star Trek: Peaceable Kingdoms
Since the summer, Pocket Books has been publishing an interconnected five-novel Star Trek series, “The Fall,” which has brought to a head many of the story-lines that have been running through the Trek novels for the past several years. “The Fall” began with
Star Trek Lives Part 1: “Lolani”
Forget the dismal Star Trek Into Darkness. It’s a great time to be a Star Trek fan. This week sees the release of not one but two full-length, completely fan-made episodes of “Classic” Kirk/Spock/McCoy Star Trek. First up: the second episode of Star Trek Contin
Star Trek: The Poisoned Chalice
The latest series of Star Trek novels, subtitled “The Fall,” roars on with the fourth of five books, James Swallow’s The Poisoned Chalice. “The Fall” started off strong with David R. George III’s Deep Space Nine-centric Revelation and Dust (click
Josh Reviews the Newly-Released Complete Soundtrack of Star Trek: Nemesis
I love movie soundtracks. And I love Star Trek. So these past few years have been fantastic, as we have gradually seen, for the first time ever, the release of the complete, unedited soundtracks for every single one of the Star Trek films. With the recent release of Jerry Goldsm
The Top 10 DVDs/Blu-Rays of 2013!
And so, at last, we arrive at my final Best of 2013 list! I hope you all enjoyed the rest of my lists. Click here for part one of The Top 15 Movies of 2013, and here for part two and here for part three. Click here for part one of The Top 10 Episodes […]
Star Trek Voyager: Acts of Contrition
As I always begin these Voyager book reviews by noting, I never much cared for the Star Trek Voyager TV show. In my opinion it is by far the weakest of all the Trek TV shows. But Kirsten Beyer has done the impossible and, with her series of post-finale-set Voyager novels, actually
Star Trek Phase II: Kitumba
Star Trek lives! I have written before on this site about the wonderful Star Trek fan-made series, Star Trek: Phase II. Taking their series title from the name of the proposed second Star Trek TV series of the seventies (which was eventually abandoned in favor of a big-screen resu
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In one of my earliest posts on the site, I wrote my own follow-up to the famous Comics Journal article “Martin Wagner Owes Me Fifty Bucks,” in which I listed several comic book series that remained tragically never-completed by their authors. At the top of the list was D