Between early exposure to televised coverage of NASA launches and constant reruns of Star Trek , it was almost inevitable that I would beco...

As I've no doubt explained previously, I was never much of a comics reader as a kid – or, more precisely, I was never much of a superher...

To say that I was a Star Wars fan during my childhood is something of an understatement. Children are, by nature, given to intense enthusias...

If you were into fantasy during the 1970s, you were almost certainly familiar with the artwork of Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, generally known ...

Issue #11 of Different Worlds (February/March 1981) is an interesting issue to me, because its content continues to differentiate the magazi...

By now, most of you will have heard that the news that English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and actor, David Prowse, best known for physically...

When I was a child, I owned a book called The Art of Star Wars. It was a fairly thick perfect bound book that featured sketches, drawings, a...

... consider the fact that today is Mark Hamill's 60th birthday.

I woke up this morning remembering a strange dream about a new Star Wars movie I'd seen. As is so often the case with my dreams, it took...

I'm not a big comics reader and never have been. I read a handful of comics when I was a boy -- Dr. Strange , Star Wars , Micronauts --...

I've spoken many times of the fact that wargames and I have had a very tempestuous relationship over the years. I've always wanted t...

A great way for someone to prove they have very little grasp of recent history is to use the phrase "this generation's Star Wars ...

The other day, after I'd posted a piece of art by Vincent DiFate , several commenters spoke highly of John Berkey, whose artwork is in a...

Irvin Kershner, perhaps best known to geeks everywhere for his direction of the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back , is dead at...

A couple of weeks ago, I asked the question "Why do you think science fiction is a lot less broadly appealing than fantasy as a genre f...

Courtesy of the ever-awesome Space: 1970 blog , I bring you Star Wars Hawaii 5-0 style:

Several commenters rightly pointed out that I'm probably being selective in the way I've been portraying the Marvel Star Wars comics...

One of the problems with conjuring up a vision of Star Wars that follows a different path than the one George Lucas laid down for it is tha...

I'm done trying to make excuses for ever more frequent posts about the Marvel Star Wars comics. The simple fact is I loved these things ...

My apologies for the slowdown in posts here. I'm knee-deep in work on the revision to Thousand Suns and, as often happens when I'm ...