Author: Joseph Dickerson

Just breaking over the wires, the much-anticipated Duke Nukem Forever game is being delayed and MAY not be released this year as planned. Damn. If you did not know, this was not unanticipated.  Duke Nukem Forever was first announced in…

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All. Sorts. Of. Awesome. From this year’s Annie Awards:

I just wrote about Watchmen the other day and now, it’s the subject of a lawsuit. Newsarama has the details.

More creative accounting; The Tolkien estate is suing NEw Line over profits they have not yet received from the Lord of the Rings films. Nikki Finke has the details here…

  Geez. I need to just make this web site the Joseph Dickerson Obituary Blog, the way things are going. Thanks to Mark Evanier for bring to my attention the death of Steve Gerber, who created the classic comic book character…

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Scheider was great in that one, too, another fave of  mine. Dang.

  Wow. I just rewatched Jaws on Friday (and wrote about that here) and I wake up bright and early on Monday morning to the news that Roy Scheider has passed at the age of 75. Scheider is one of…

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I’m a huge fan of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel. It is, basically, the reason I no longer read comics on a regular basis. When you read Watchmen, a work that tweaks the conventions of the genre…

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Just added a nice gallery feature, so here’s some photos from last year’s Official G.I.Joe Convention:

A person I once called a friend, Caitlin Kiernan, is having health problems. Please click, read, and, if you can, help.

Tucked away in-between the SC Aquarium and the Fort Sumter Museum is a fantastic museum, featuring uniforms and military memorabilia from the war of 1812 all the way to today. I compiled all the photos I took and edited them…

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Here’s some great clips from 1960s promotional segments made by NBC. U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, and the Tonight Show are featured. Ah, memories (and if only I could have had a 3/4″ VTR back then)… [youtube]kowZ6RCdXBU[/youtube]

I’m a toy collector with have fond memories of the 8″ Mego line of action figures from the 1970s. Mego made superheroes, Happy Days figures, and, to me,  the creme de la creme, figures based on Star Trek. Diamond Select…

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Man, I wish I had these… [youtube]nM58dJ5l9B8[/youtube]

…I’m tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago and it’s gone right to my head…” I had a… well, it was a very challenging day at work today. And so…

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