Here on Castaway Island: A classic comedy comes ashore as a Tricube Tales minigame
Ask any Gen Xer what life was like in the 1980s, and one thing they’re likely to point out is how TV changed. It went […]
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Paul Hogan as the Ghost Who Walks
We’ve grown to enjoy The Phantom in recent years — from the original comic strips to the awesome movie with Billy Zane. Then we ran […]
Can “Square Pegs” ever fit in? A DVD review
It behooves us to take a few moments to talk about the much-loved TV series from the 1980s, “Square Pegs.” After all, we have a […]
Trucker pulps: ‘Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie’ and the pulp formula
In a few hours we used to count as “therapy time,” Comics on the Brain sat down and watched the TV movie “Flatbed Annie & […]
Celebrate Man-E-Faces at your workplace
Well, it looks like you can forget celebrating Free Comic Book Day, don’t bother with Christmas and Boxing Day either. A new holiday is fast […]
CHiPs on our shoulder: Why ‘CHiPs’ is a slice of awesome
Despite our best efforts, the Comics on the Brain staff just couldn’t get any of the rest of their family members excited about the arrival […]
May the Force be with you, Adidas
Back in 2010, when even people in the U.S. were actually paying attention to the World Cup, sports apparel maker Adidas added to the excitement […]
‘Adam-12’ hits the not-so-mean streets of L.A.
The “Adam-12 Season Two” DVD box set lingered untouched for many weeks in the Comics on the Brain office. No one, it seemed, had any […]
Blue Beetle on the little screen
Comics on the Brain has written a lot about Blue Beetle. So much that he actually appears in our tag cloud. In particular, we’ve suggested […]
Set sail with ‘McHale’s Navy’: Season Three review
“McHale’s Navy” always reminds me of Saturday afternoons at my grandma’s house. She got cable and my family didn’t, so it was like a wonderland […]
BBC’s Robin Hood is right on target
A real scoundrel stole his way on to the small screen in the form of “Robin Hood,” a BBC production that’s was imported to the […]
Hail to the Hoff: A tribute to the man … and his music
David Hasselhoff is 60. You heard it right: The Hoff, megawatt star of “Knight Rider” and “Baywatch,” has entered his sixth decade as of June […]
The Adventures of William Tell: Medieval storytelling done right
Comics on the Brain, as an institution, is interested in comics in all their forms and all their genres. In the late 1990s, we remember […]
Wanna know where Matt Laurer can go?
You can tell it’s a sweeps week when all sorts of stunt stories start popping up in TV news, and no stunt is more frivolous and […]
Scratching the Surface
A few weeks ago, I finished up the DVD collection of 2005’s “Surface,” a weird-mystery TV show obviously greenlit after the success of “Lost.: As […]
How to Play and Watch Gaelic Football in the United States
Gaelic Football is a field sport developed in Ireland that is akin torugby and soccer, with a little bit of basketball to boot. The game […]
Max Headroom’s future finally arrives
Here in America, we completed the switchover to DTV, the effort to end the public use of analog TV signals a few years ago. Over […]
Selling the unsellable
It’s hard not to look at any advertisement on TV without a bit of skepticism. CotB believes, for example, that OxiClean isn’t just a cleaning […]
Hey, it’s ‘That Guy!’
Check out this fun Web site, which helps us finally put a name to the face of ‘That Guy’ you always see in movies, TV […]
Funny commercials — But where do you watch them?
Let’s be realistic about it: Funny commercials are a dime a dozen. To catch someone’s eye nowadays, commercials pretty much have to be funny. So it’s […]