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Tom Cullen knightfall
History Channel sure has been branching out into scripted drama territory What once started with Vikings continues with Seal Team Six and the newest series, Knightfall The first episode of the series centers around the fall of the Templar's last stronghold city in the Holy Land Acre, where the Holy Grail is lost during an attack and subsequent retreat. https://youtu.be/F9dtepkeR0IVideo[...]
Watch: Vikings Cast Does Facebook Live Ahead of Season 5 Premiere
Fans of History's Vikings have been celebrating the return of the show all week, and the network knows it. Aside from a special airing ahead of the premiere where Ivar the Boneless asks the Seer to tell him the saga of Lagertha, there is also a facebook live event with the cast going on RIGHT NOW. Check[...]
Blue Book: History's UFO Drama Adds Michael Harney, Ksenia Solo
History's new UFO drama series Blue Book is expanding its search-for-intelligence-life team, announcing Michael Harney (Orange is the New Black) and Ksenia Solo (Turn: Washington's Spies, In Search of Fellini) have joined the series' regular cast. Executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis, the 10-episode series teams Harney and Solo with previously announced leads Laura Mennell (The[...]
Blue Book: Laura Mennell Set For History's Robert Zemeckis UFO Series
If "the truth" is truly out there, then History is banking on viewers wanting to get to the bottom of where that search for the truth really began with new UFO drama series Blue Book Executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis, the ten-episode series has found its female lead in Laura Mennell (The Man[...]
Vikings Alex Hogh Andersen
History Channel's Vikings has given audiences some pretty incredible characters and performances From Travis Fimmel's rockstar swagger heavy King Ragnar Lothbrok to Katheryn Winnick's force of nature mother-shield maiden-Queen Lagertha and Gustaf Skarsgard's maniacal visionary Floki, it seemed there could not be yet another person of larger-than-life status That is, until show creator and writer Michael[...]
Vikings
History is bringing Vikings to the San Diego Comic-Con in style Their presence will include: A cast panel with new exclusive Season 5 footage A bona fide Vikings longship set ablaze in the San Diego Bay A booth on the convention floor Drinking horn giveaways An exclusive SDCC comic book An elaborate funeral procession through downtown San Diego They will also be[...]
The History Of Comics At AwesomeCon 2017!
On Friday, June 16, fans at AwesomeCon got a chance to hear Joe Sergi from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and author of The Law For Comic Book Creators talk about the history of American comics. We can clearly trace stories as told through art all the way to when cavemen drew on walls, or even[...]
Excavating A Hidden History For The 1950's Marvel Universe With The Black Panther
As well as Blue Marvel… …we get an army of superheroes for Harlem alone. With only three remaining issues, and previous little room for flashbacks, in nothing else, the history of Marvel Universe has got a lot bigger, and more diverse in the process. Black Panther And The Crew #3 is published today.   So Black Panther & The[...]
The Birth of a Nation Review: A Decent History Lesson Albeit Selectively Assembled
This version follows Turner's life growing up as a slave, and how he came to eventually lead the largest slave uprising in American history (which has come to itself be called alternately Nat Turner's slave rebellion or the Southampton Insurrection) It's a passionate film, and Parker clearly has come to the fore with it due to[...]
She Changed Comics, A New Female History Of The Industry From The CBLDF
She Changed Comics is a full-colour, 160-page book coming out this autumn, funded through Kickstarter and produced by the CBLDF. While traditionally the history of comic books is dominated by male names, Shuster and Siegel, Goodman, Kane, Eisner, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, this book will profile and interview sixty female creators from the beginning of the 20th century[...]
Marvel Uses Astrophysics To Explain Secret Wars
Marvel has gotten Michael Shara, curator of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, to talk about the possibilities of multiple universes Shara goes into great detail about the theory of multiple universes and how they maybe created with every choice made. This is Marvel explaining how Secret Wars work… Though I think most comic readers got[...]