John’s 10 favorite TV characters at the moment (Commentary)
As we wind down the traditional season and gear up for some summer shows, here’s a look at 10 TV characters who have my attention:
As we wind down the traditional season and gear up for some summer shows, here’s a look at 10 TV characters who have my attention:
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IDW’s “X-Files: Season 11 comic series (August 2015-March 2016) is the latest epic story to get truncated due to outside commercial forces. Usually, those outside forces are bad (see the cancellation of TV’s “Angel” and “Dollhouse” […]
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Resurrecting a tradition from the old Topps comics, IDW’s “X-Files” Season 10 comics have also featured special issues alongside the regular series, starting with 2014’s Annual (April) and X-Mas Special (December), both of which feature two stories. […]
While “The X-Files” was spun off into novels as far back as 1994 and into comics in 1995, its sister series, “Millennium” (1996-99), didn’t transition to another medium until 2015, 16 years after it left the airwaves. […]