Marvel announced Edward James Olmos will join Agents of S.H.I.EL..D. this Spring. The actor will play Robert Gonzalez whose debut will have “massive repurcussions for Director Coulson and his team.”
The veteran actor is known for playing Commander William Adama on Battlestar Galactica and his roles on Miami Vice and in Blade Runner. Continue reading EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Joins MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD
Angela: Asgard’s Assassin #1 The sister of Thor and Loki strikes out on her own. What does she have that Asgard and Heaven both want. A brand new series by writers Kieron Gillen, Marguerite Bennett with artists Phil Jimenez and Stephanie Hans.
Battlestar Galatica: Death of Apollo #1 Set 10 years after the Cylon attack on the Colonies, the survivors are ready to leave war behind them when a voice from the past changes their fate. A brand new series by Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Dietrich Smith
Detective Comics #37 Batman villain Anarky makes his New 52 debut! Continue reading Top Comics Picks for December 3, 2014
An original Battlestar Galactica reunion will be a highlight at the back to basics comic show of the Pacific Northwest! Jet City Comic Show announced Richard Hatch will appear at the event on November 8, 2014 in Tacoma. Hatch joins previously announced special guest Dirk Benedict.
The two actors played pilots Apollo and Starbuck on the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Yes, the men who flew Colonial Vipers will touch down at Jet City Comic Show. Continue reading BATTLESTAR GALATICA STARS At JET CITY COMIC SHOW 2014
Age of Ultron #8 Wolverine went back in time to stop Hank Pym from creating Ultron! The result may be even worse! Witness the new Marvel Now when a founding Avenger now runs the world with an iron fist and an army of twisted versions of your favorite heroes!
Battlestar Galactica #1 A brand new comic book series based on the original television series set in continuity by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning! These duo knows something about sci-fi (Guardians of the Galaxy, Annihilation, Legion of Super-Heroes.)
Fatale #14 Flashback to World War Two with a Nazi cult and monsters plus Jo’s horrific encounter with a evil force will haunt her throughout time.
Nightwing #20 Dick Grayson has been far too many deaths that hit close to home! Now an influential figure from his haunted past is resurrected! How will this change Nightwing and his mission?
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 Does Miles Morales give up the power and responsibility? What tragedy could make Miles quit? Plus, Ultimate Cloak 7 Dagger!
X-Factor #256 The End of X-Factor is coming! Which of your favorite mutant misfit detectives will survive the Hell on Earth War? Who will make the ultimate sacrifice to save the world and who will seize the throne of Hell?
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Michael Hogan will be among the stellar cast of celebrities at Fan Expo Vancouver next weekend. Devoted Battlestar Galactica fans will flock to the Vancouver Convention Center April 20th and 21st for a chance to cheer on the actor who played Colonel Saul Tigh on the SyFy series.
I had the opportunity to speak with Hogan in this exclusive preview of his upcoming appearance at Fan Expo Vancouver. I asked the veteran actor how playing Tigh had changed his career.
“I had been acting for 37 years before BSG came along. I’m a journeyman actor. I guess you can say a veteran. I appreciated what was going on. I knew how fantastic this was. Eddie (Edward James Olmos), Mary (McDonnell) was aware. This was incredibly special.”
From Executive Officer to resistance leader to the revelation Continue reading Fan Expo Vancouver Preview: BSG’s Michael Hogan
I still miss SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica. One of my geekiest highlights of 2012 (and maybe ever!) was meeting Edward James Olmos at Emerald City Comicon. I was literally speechless for a while.
I haven’t watched the series since it ended but I did get to swoon at the exhibit at Seattle’s Sci-Fi Museum – sigh!
The saga continues in 2013 with Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome set during the First Cylon War. This is the pilot turned web series now (almost) available. Luke Pasqualino plays the William Adama – a Viper pilot assigned to the Galactica. This collection arrives February 19th.
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series can soon be seen on glorious Blu-ray in April.
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I’m excited to share that Dirk Benedict is coming to Emerald City Comicon next year! The actor played two notorious ladies’ men on two iconic television shows of my youth. On the original Battlestar Galactica Benedict played Lt. Starbuck. The Colonial pilot blasted Cylons, seduced ladies but Apollo and the fleet could always count on him when they needed him. I admit I had the Starbuck action figure along with a Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider.
Benedict then played Templeton Peck aka Faceman on the classic series The A-Team. This was another great role to showcase Benedict’s charisma, charm and comic timing. The Montana native attended college in Walla Walla, Washington and performed in Seattle theatre productions before becoming a pop culture icon with two classic characters.
Benedict will be appearing all three days. Emerald City Comicon is March 1-3, 2013 at the Washington State Convention Center. Tickets are on sale online or visit a local comic book shop selling tickets – and pick a book or three while you’re there!
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As I descended down into a new exhibition underneath Seattle’s EMP Museum I was giddy with geek anticipation. Icons of Science Fiction features some of the most inspiring artifacts of the sci-fi genre. I felt like Neo. I was a “Chosen One” receiving a sneak peek and chance to meld with the mind who created this new exhibition.
You pass the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. I had to find the glass bearing the photo and name of Ray Bradbury to pay homage. Then prepare to be transported. The curator has designed an entry way that reminds you of an iconic experience in a sci-fi adventure. If you’re a Star Wars fans it would be going to light speed…if the hyper-drive is fixed! If you’re a Star Trek fan you’re going to warp. For the 2001: A Space Odyssey fans it’s going on a trip into void with Dave!
Fans can marvel at artifacts that have never been shown publicly like Lt. Uhura’s uniform from Star Trek, Yoda’s walking cane from Star Wars, the Kryptonian spaceship from Superman starring Christopher Reeve. You can even see the Captain’s chair James T. Kirk sat in while commanding the Enterprise!
What If? This eternal question drives the exploration of ideas behind the genre’s greatest creations. Curator Brooks Peck explains why he built the exhibition based on questions as opposed to by chronological order or sub categories.
“One of the things science fiction does is ask these crazy strange questions. Any science fiction story can be framed as a question. Star Trek is framed as what if we could explore space and the stars. What would happen? What stories would come out of that? Or Men In Black – what if aliens came to this planet? Or Terminator – what if robots took over the world? So the exhibition asks six of these big questions and presents lots of stories, films, tv shows, novels, comics that answers those in different ways. So if you’re not like a hard-core science fiction person…you see the questions and it gets your thinking. Questions like what if we could design our children? It gets you thinking about it and I hope makes it accessible to everybody – science fiction fans and non fans alike.
What If You Were the Chosen One? This section highlights the idea of the savior who inspires change. Paul Muad’Dib was the prophesied messiah of Frank Herbert’s Dune series. You can see the jacket worn by Neo (Keanu Reeves) of The Matrix. I was fascinated and little freaked to see the Anakin Skywalker lifecast from Star Wars: Return of The Jedi. It takes you back to that moment when Luke lifts the Vader mask so Anakin can look on his son with his own eyes. You can see a costume Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) wore on a key Battlestar Galactica episode that reinforced her role as a messiah for the human race.
What If I Had Superpowers? This section features Alan Moore’s classic Watchmen, Christopher Reeve’s costume from Superman IV and the miniature starship from his first Superman film that carried the young alien from Krypton to Smallville.
What If We Fought A War With Aliens? From Will Smith’s impossibly huge gun in Men in Black, to the warrior headgear from the original Stargate film to the saucer from Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space – this section is filled with weapons and gear to make you feel “absolute bad asses” like the Colonial Marines in Aliens. In fact you can see the helmet worn by Michael Biehn in the James Cameron sequel!
What If We Were Enslaved By Our Machines? Who can forget the Terminator skull once the Ar-NULD visage from burned off? A robot skull from T2: Judgement Day is part of this section. What might be THE artifact of the exhibition is the centerpiece of this section: a Dalek from Doctor Who.
“I think the Dalek is fantastic because…it’s a Dalek, right? And since Doctor Who is created in England it’s rare that objects make it make it over to the United States for us to see much less something this big and heavy and crazy like a Dalek. This Dalek in particular is special because it’s an Imperial Dalek which were the first Daleks we actually saw on camera climbing stairs and levitating,” declares Peck.
This rare artifact is from the Remembrance of the Daleks episode from 1988 and Peck adds they call it “the glam-rock Dalek.”
What If We Could Design Our Own Children? The teddy bear from the Steven Spielberg directed AI, Commander Data’s uniform Star Trek: The Next Generation, the work of local author Octavia Butler highlight this section that asks a question that may be answered in a future that’s closer that we may think.
EMP Museum always deliver more than just inspiring visuals. This exhibition makes you a Ridley Scott, George Lucas or Steven Spielberg! The Create Your Own Special Effects Shot puts your friend on a green screen while you choose the fantasy backdrop and which iconic characters you want to interact with on-screen. You can fly like a superhero in the sky or run from Imperial Stormtroopers on an alien moon.
There is a space age looking control board that gives you an interactive exploration of sci-fi sources and influences on design and modern art. You can touch your way across the genres.
Brooks Peck and his team have collected from across genres and scored some amazing artifacts. I was curious to know what was the hardest artifact in the exhibit to procure?
“There was one on my wish list that I couldn’t secure so that would probably be the hardest. We have on display one of Darth Vader’s light sabres from Episodes Five and Six. We wanted to compliment that with an Anakin Skywalker light sabre from the prequel. They’re very rare to find out and about…but we found a collector in England who had one and we had a plan. One of our curators was going to England anyway and was going to bring it back. Turns out though it was a fighting sabre used to film a combat scenes so it had this long carbon fiber plate so we thought we’d just transport this little handle but actually it was this four-foot long thing that couldn’t come apart so we couldn’t bring it from England. So we wanted to show that. Maybe someday but not now.”
“Maybe someday” is what we often think after seeing a sci-fi film or reading a novel. The search the search for what’s possible, what’s in our future drives science fiction and fantasy fans. Like machine gaining sentience or an alien life form this exhibition is designed to evolve and grow. I am thrilled to be here for the birth of Icons of Science Fiction. Geek Tested…and approved for all.
Icons of Science Fiction opens June 9th. You can also still enjoy the Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror and Avatar: The Exhibition.
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Stay tuned for more posts: What does a Sci Fi Museum curator think of Prometheus, Doctor Who and why did certain comic books make the cut while others didn’t?