Feb 10, 2012 | Forbes
San Diego Comic-Con With 130,000 attendees in 2011, San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) is currently one of the United States’ largest conventions, one that boosted San Diego’s economy by $193 million. So how did this tiny gathering grow into what some consider...
Feb 9, 2012 | SyFy
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace supporting character Jar Jar Binks has appeared in toys, comic books, books, episodes of The Clone Wars and posters. But what if he appeared in posters where he didn’t actually belong? That’s a question that’s finally...
Feb 8, 2012 | SyFy
As every fan and critic knows, with its eons-long podrace and questionable racial caricatures, The Phantom Menace was the weakest of all of George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. But die-hard fans find what joy they can. And one of those fans happens to be an...
Feb 8, 2012 | Forbes
Patrick Stewart, The Graham Norton Show Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson know that they’ll be forever haunted by their former characters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, respectively. We...
Feb 3, 2012 | Forbes
If you’ve been following geek news, you’ll know that DC Comics will be releasing a series of comic books, Before Watchmen, this summer. These books will be based on characters developed by Alan Moore in Watchmen, the 1986 graphic novel that became the standard by...