On the heels of the transparent aluminum, now there are phaser rifles. US military sets laser PHASRs to stun

Comics Continuum has updates for the DC animated shows, including a Chuck Dixon villain getting adapted for the first time on “The Batman” and the rest of the season for “Teen Titans”. They also have a wallpaper for Teen Titans showing the extended cast for this season (with a few exceptions like Kid Flash missing).…

I saw that news item about George Takei and clicked over to Monitor Duty to begin my write-up, my mind culling Star Trek trivia for the appropriate headline. “Mr. Sulu, you have the Coming Out.” “Star Trek cast now even more diverse.” “Gold for command, red for security…what’s pink?” “When did Mr. Sulu find the…

In case you didn’t know, the new season of the animated Teen Titans has launched a season-long storyline pitting the Titans against the Brotherhood of Evil (after kicking off with a surprisingly faithful Doom Patrol two-parter). This led into the Brotherhood uniting ALL of the Titans enemies…which is rather similar to the season-long Legion of…

Actor Don Adams Dies at 82 Don Adams was a WWII vet who served at Guadalcanal and, after surviving a tropical fever, served back in the states as a drill instructor. That actually explains the delivery he used. Years ago, I had a copy of an LP record from the library of Don Adams doing…

Lost. Premieres tonight. Nuff said.

My wife asks, “How many weeks before the NBC announcer just calls it ‘Earl’?” I say three. Good show. Starring Jason Lee, it’s done on location without a laughtrack. The premise is that a total reprobate redneck loses his winning lottery ticket and realizes that his karma is screwed up. (He thinks Carson Daly invented…

Nestor Carbonell is quickly becoming the Mickey Rourke of TV: if he’s in a show, it’ll fail. It was true for “The Tick” and now “Century City, the futuristic legal drama, got canned. They didn’t even show the episode featured in the previews of the last show.