The Weekly Pulse – January 12th, 2012
Man-o-man, is this week ever a big one! Tons of new comics, plus some toys and some graphic novels thrown in!
Wooo Captain! That is one sweet jacket!
Early on Mother’s Day this kid comes in and tells me he found this jacket at a thrift store for 15 bucks… with The Enterprise already painted on the back! What luck.
Trailer Trash: Green Lantern
The official trailer for 2011′s Green Lantern movie was revealed earlier today and, well… um… Kilowog, Sinestro and Abin Sur look good. Let’s take a peek, shall we? CGI suit, huh? Ryan Reynolds as a snarky womanizing wiseass chosen to be the protector of this sector of the galaxy, huh? The usual canned superhero movie [...]
Berfday
One of my favorite cartoons from Nicholas Gurewitch. This and Wrath of Khan are the first things that come to mind on the anniversary of anyone’s birth.
No Win Scenario
We Trekkies have fought many battles throughout the years (social stigma, Ringers, post-nasal drip, and excessive chafing from our Klingon wigs all come to mind), and not all of us are equipped with an Ahn-woon. Now authors Kevin D. Anderson and Sam Stall chronicle a group of Trekkies’ fight for their lives against, what else, [...]
Vulcan Haircut in My Mind! Vulcan Haircut in My Mind!
Seeing this this morning on Blastr immediately provoked memories of Pavement: On another note, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent well over twenty years attempting to grow Trek sideburns to disastrous effect. Which is okay, really, as some Starfleet Captains just plain forget to grow them. Even when said Captain is not only [...]
Yaphet Kotto as Picard, Wesley Snipes as Geordi LaForge? The Star Trek TNG That Might Have Been
Letters of Note has discovered and posted this intriguing internal Paramount communiqué from 1987. The casting memo, summarizing potential actors in the running for various roles in the studio’s then-forthcoming relaunch of the Star Trek franchise, lists quite a few surprising names, with a few others notably absent. Thankfully this only documents the Next Gen that [...]
Robert Picardo Signing @ Forbidden Planet NYC 6/5
Hey!!! In a rare NYC appearance, Robert Picardo’s gonna be signing at the shop on Saturday the 5th at 1pm! Robert’s genre credits are numerous (to say the least… Smallville, Stargate’s Richard Woolsey, The WonderYears’ Coach Cutlip, and of course, Star Trek’s Holographic Doctor) so this event should appeal to a broad range of fans. [...]
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
What little free time I’ve had since this past Monday has been occupied by just one thing: Baseball. It’s one of the only forms of entertainment I enjoy more than comics, SF and other geeky stuff, and provides me with a much welcome escape… from the world of capes and spaceships and Mandalorians. Now the [...]
Today in owning your part of geek culture.
The very first Mac Plus, owned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, is on sale now. The original creators of the Mac presented Roddenberry with the computer, to which he featured in Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home. (See the clip above). It was one of the first occurences that Roddenbery utilized modern technology in [...]