Now Comics wraps up its stint on “The Terminator” with its best work. The two-issue “All My Future’s Past” is a prequel to the first movie chronicling the events leading up to the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and […]
Now Comics’ run of “Terminator” stories makes a significant jump from mediocre to widely lauded with the five-issue mood piece “The Burning Earth” (1990). This is because the painterly art comes from Alex Ross, who was only […]
Now Comics’ original “Terminator” series improves from bad to mediocre — and finally gives readers the hook of meeting John Connor for the first time – in Issues 9-17 (1989-90), when Ron Fortier becomes the regular writer.
After “The Terminator’s” box office success in 1984, it took a while for merchandisers to pounce on the possibilities. Four years later, Now Comics finally told the first further adventures of the saga in the […]
Writers Greg and Erik Bear and artist George Jimenez repackage Richard Connell’s classic short story about man hunting man, “The Most Dangerous Game,” into a “Jurassic Park” yarn in the entertaining “Dangerous Games” (2011-12), which as of […]
It’s been the inclination of most “Jurassic Park” comics that old characters and new dinosaur species are the key to success. But the opposite approach – new characters and old dinosaur species – has produced […]
Following 2001’s “Jurassic Park III,” the franchise entered a dark age for nearly a decade. Serious fans could follow the development hell of the fourth movie (which, after many fits and starts, finally will come […]
After the mostly ridiculous “Raptor” trilogy (a.k.a. “Jurassic Park Adventures”), Topps Comics’ “Jurassic Park” saga got a nudge upward in quality with the nine-issue “Return to Jurassic Park”(1995-96), which consisted of two major arcs.
After the success of the movie in June 1993, “Jurassic Park” fans didn’t have to wait long for follow-up stories. Arguably, they had to wait awhile for GOOD stories, as the next novel and movie […]
Here are 10 movies, TV series, books and comics I’m looking forward to in 2015: “Marvel’s Agent Carter” (TV show, Jan. 6, pictured) – While I’m not a huge fan of the Marvel movie franchise, I […]