Remember those two-foot tall Shogun Warrior toys from the 70s? Remember your old neckless Kenner Stormtrooper figure? Well, they’ve been off making babies, and you’ll be able to adopt them later this year. Clickie this linkie. Congratulations to the happy grandparents, Brian and Frank!

A long time ago, on a web site called Deja News, I was doing a search for “Zuckuss” and stumbled across a little series called “Star Whores” by Jefferson Morris.

So by now, everyone knows what the MacGuffin is for the next Indy film. If you don’t, and you don’t want to, don’t continue reading.

…recently I was watching Return of the Jedi with my 3 year old niece (“Look, robots!”), and during the scene where Leia takes off her bounty hunter disguise, I came to a realization, however minor: A character appears, defined by a scary costume and voice, and when she unmasks, you see that it’s someone familiar […]

Tonight I saw a preview screening of Diary of the Dead. What follows is a review containing very mild spoilers and a strong bitter taste. This review was brought to you by Tylenol PM and two bites of a fried catfish filet that smelled and tasted like my fish tank when I’m too lazy to […]

This is hopefully the final revision of this entry before Battlestar Galactica Season 4 gets here. It includes all of my observations regarding Razor, and the latest (last?) round of updates involves how the events of Razor affect Tigh and Starbuck. I present… ROGER’S GRAND UNIFIED CYLON THEORY, VERSION 1.3

Don’t remember exactly how long ago it was, or who posted it, but this was a contest entry on fark.com a while back.

I will be appearing on Chris Meadows’ Space Station Liberty call-in show on Thursday, February 8 at 10 PM EST to discuss the MOSPEADA and Southern Cross art I mentioned here. The show’s home page is here, and detailed instructions on how to listen and call in are here. Feel free to call in and […]

Author James Luceno is well known for his novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe such as Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and the New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos series. However, what some fans don’t know is that he also co-wrote the Robotech novels with the late Brian Daley under the […]

Forgive me, gentle EG readers, for I have sinned against you. I haven’t been spending enough quality time here, but there are good reasons for it. I’ve been toiling away on feature articles for Super7 Magazine about 1980s Japanese robot toys.

I just wrote a guest blog entry for my friends at AltJapan, all about my fanboy journey to meet my childhood heroes. Read all about it here. – Roger

Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ So if you see anyone talking like a pirate, slap them across the face and tell them that the joke’s over. – Roger

Yes, I know, in the year 2006, when you say something in the “blogosphere,” it has credibility for some reason. I’m a little old fashioned, though, and in my world, print beats pixels. Read this newspaper article. Remember, if it’s in a newspaper, even if it’s an opinion, it’s TRUE. – Roger

Open thread time! Everybody please post your experiences at San Diego Comic Con in the comments section. – Roger

The year is 2013, and America’s “War on Drugs” has entered a new and dramatically different phase with the introduction of Substance D. Deep cover agents like Bob Arctor seem to be fighting for both sides of the conflict. Which side is he really on, though? Does he even know?

You already know about Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that covers the significant accomplishments of the human race like science, history, and art. You’ve probably visited wikis devoted to somewhat less important (but far more entertaining) subjects, like Memory Alpha, Wookieepedia, and Battlestar Wiki. The bottom of the barrel is now being scraped at Encyclopedia Dramatica, […]

Kieran Vogel is the closest you could ever come to meeting a living, breathing cartoon character. Bake Snaker and I graduated high school with him, and according to Kieran he hasn’t accomplished anything since then. His solution: hand control of his life over to people who watch him on the internet. The media coverage of […]

Check it out on YouTube, before the lawyers have it taken down: UPDATE: Info on the source material here, torrent here. – Roger

Now that Deadwood is starting up again, it’s time for a recap. Courtesy of WFMU, Seven Minutes In Deadwood, or for those of you with really short attention spans, 30 Seconds Over Deadwood. If you’re listening to these at work, make sure you crank up your speakers to 11. – Roger

I’ve always felt that Star Wars fans deserved a higher ranking in the Geek Hierarchy, far above the lower groups such as Transformers fans and self-styled American otaku. But then I come across stuff like this. Some context: author Karen Traviss writes the licensed Star Wars novels that deal with the Clone Wars. Some overly […]