- John Hansen
- May 8, 2014
John’s 10 favorite TV characters at the moment (Commentary)
The recent return of “24” further solidifies that this is an age of shock-value TV, where the body count of main characters is more valued
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- John Hansen
- May 8, 2014
‘Veronica Mars’ is back, and it’s like she never left
“Veronica Mars” is back in movie form this week on DVD in a wonderful relaunch of the franchise (the first of a new line of novels
- John Hansen
- May 7, 2014
First episode impressions: ‘24: Live Another Day’ (TV review)
“24: Live Another Day” (8 p.m. Central Mondays on Fox) comes along four years after the eighth season, but Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub slip
- John Hansen
- May 6, 2014
Exploring ‘TMNT’ multiverse: 12 different continuities!
In my previous blog post, I lamented the fact that “Star Wars” is officially switching from one continuity to two (“Legends” and the new Disney-overseen
- John Hansen
- May 4, 2014
‘Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void’ goes back further than ever into ‘Star Wars’ lore (Book review)
Scientists are searching further back in space and time toward the Big Bang to gain a fuller picture of our universe. In a way, “Star
- John Hansen
- May 4, 2014
For fans whose interest goes beyond the films, Disney continues to sap the fun out of ‘Star Wars’ (Commentary)
Disney has been doing a great job of sucking the fun out of “Star Wars” since it purchased Lucasfilm in October 2012. First, it canceled
- John Hansen
- April 27, 2014
Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello get ‘TMNT’ miniseries (2007-09)
Springing from “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 came four four-issue miniseries, one featuring each Turtle. “Leonardo: Blind Sight” (2006) launches from Issue 5, where Leo gets
- John Hansen
- April 25, 2014
‘Tales of the TMNT’ comes to bittersweet end in Issues 54-70 (2009-10)
“TMNT” long ago taught us that, in the end, life is at best bittersweet, and that’s how I’d describe the last year-and-a-half of “Tales of the
- John Hansen
- April 24, 2014
Lawson joins team for ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 42-53 (2008)
The 2008 batch of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was defined in two major ways: One, editor Dan Berger began informing readers of where each tale
- John Hansen
- April 23, 2014
‘Tales of the TMNT’ fills in gaps in Issues 31-41 (2007)
Part of the purpose of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was to go back and fill in all those little story gaps that cropped up in