Author Archives: Tony Frazier

Bonus Chapter Up

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Tony Frazier

Below is the Bonus Chapter (or if you will, the regularly scheduled chapter that got preempted by April Fool’s Day). Be here Friday when we return to the regular schedule, and next Tuesday, the return of Extras. Really.

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Super Movie Monday – Starcrash, Part 2

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Tony Frazier

As we left off last week in recapping Lewis Coates’s (aka Luigi Cozzi’s) 1979 Italian homage to/rip-off of Star Wars, Stella Star (Caroline Munro) was freezing to death on an icy planet while her longtime partner Acton (Marjoe Gortner) lay dead … Continue reading →

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Out of the Vault – Secret Origins 10

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Tony Frazier

Okay, as you might have noticed, yesterday was April 1, so yes, The Chosen One was an April Fool’s Day joke, and no, Hero Go Home is not cancelled. I’m going to try to get a bonus chapter up this … Continue reading →

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Mega March Winding Down

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Tony Frazier

Well, the end of the month is approaching and the great experiment has not gone as well as hoped. It’s been a big month, content-wise. Fiction reviews, game reviews, Superman comics reviews, the climax of the big battle to end … Continue reading →

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Super Movie Monday – Starcrash

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Tony Frazier

Okay, as I warned you last week, this is not a superhero film, nor is it based on a comic book. But Starcrash is heavily influenced by Barbarella, a comic that was itself made into a movie starring a young … Continue reading →

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Out of the Vault – Reign of the Supermen

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Tony Frazier

So in the aftermath of the huge Death of Superman event, DC Comics then unveiled the Reign of the Supermen. If you read last week’s Vault, and the entry on the Shaquille O’Neal movie, Steel, then you know that DC … Continue reading →

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Down With OPB – The False Princess

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tony Frazier

Continuing March’s look at Other People’s Books, I’d like to feature a change of pace for Hero Go Home. There’s really no connection at all, either thematically or even proximately, between Digger, or superheroes in general, and Eilis O’Neal’s debut … Continue reading →

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Big Game Wednesday – Champions Online

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tony Frazier

So I mentioned that I used to play City of Heroes and City of Villains. Well, not long after I started playing, the studio that developed the game, Cryptic Studios, sold off City of Heroes to NC Soft, the publisher. … Continue reading →

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Super Movie Monday – Steel

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Tony Frazier

So, finally at the end of our months-long journey through the films of Superman on the big screen, the final crappy truck stop meal before pulling into home. I promised you the “forgotten” Superman movie, and I give you… Steel, … Continue reading →

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Out of the Vault – Action Comics 687

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Tony Frazier

On Monday, I promised to bring you a “forgotten” Superman film to wrap up our months-long look at all of the big guy’s big screen appearances, and that is definitely going to happen. So I figured to give you a … Continue reading →

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