Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Whew! Look at that title! A mouthful of self-evident tautological emptiness. Still, let’s not let that get us down, huh kids? What we have here is Infinite Crisis. It’s the sequel to Crisis On Infinite Earths and the prequel to Final Crisis, both of which I’ve reviewed on this site before and, hence, it makes [...]

Table of Contents #24 – Executive Action #25 – Scorched Earth #26 – Our Army At War #27 – The Bigger They Come #28 – Crisis Times Five, Part One #29 – Crisis Times Five, Part Two, World Turned Upside Down #30 – Crisis Times Five, Part Three, Worlds Beyond #31 – Crisis Times Five, [...]

AKA Matthew Fox Featured Episodes 1.05 White Rabbit 1.11 All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues 1.20 Do No Harm 2.01 Man Of Science, Man Of Faith 2.11 The Hunting Party 3.01 A Tale Of Two Cities 3.09 Stranger In A Strange Land 3.22 Through The Looking Glass 4.09 Something Nice Back Home 5.06 316 [...]

Geoff Klock (www.geoffklock.com) knows more about the evolution of superhero comic books than anyone else in the room. This is true regardless of whether the room contains just one other person or more comic book geeks than you can poke a cosmic power rod at. For his book, How To Read Superhero Comics And Why, [...]

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‘Twas the night before Star Wars, and geeks queued round the world Counting the hours ’til the new flick was unfurled The TIE fighters were hung atop the cinema with care In hopes that Lord Vader soon would be there The action figures were nestled home snug in their ship With light sabre clutched tight [...]

Cast Away is the thought-provoking movie about a volleyball trapped upon a deserted island with only a washed up Tom Hanks and his beard for company. (Tom Hanks’ beard that is, not the volleyball’s beard. The volleyball has no beard. (And yes I’m fully aware that making fun of the volleyball has been an easy [...]