Why do your favorite heroes get bogged down in continuity and inside…

It never fails: The cooler a hero is, the likelier he or she is to start tossing out references that only mean something to a handful of fans. The longer an epic story goes on, the more self-referential it gets.

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Fan Service Leads to Bondage In "Empowered"

A superheroine who keeps finding herself in bondage or with her magical costume torn apart, dealing with self-confidence and body issues with the help of her supervillain henchman boyfriend? That would be Adam Warren's Empowered, a cult-favorite "sexy superhero" comic that parodies and embodies the whole "damsel in…

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Heroes Needs To Cater To Fans, Resurrect Me, Says Actor

DLDLDL.jpgIn what may be a classic case of sour grapes, former Heroes star Leonard Roberts — the formerly intangible DL — feels that the creators of the show have forgotten where it started from, and need to get back to fundamentals. Entirely coincidentally, Roberts also has some ideas about how his character could return from…

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Doctor Who Hits The Nostalgia Crack Pipe



The new Doctor Who BBC series has a lot of fans who never watched the original. So why do the producers insist on hauling out more and more Thatcher-era crap? It's like they're trying to drain the freshness out of the show. The latest instance is the return of 1980s doctor Peter Davison in a mini-episode for a BBC…

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