Strangers and Aliens: Science Fiction & Fantasy from a Christian Perspective
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AVENGERS WEEK
It’s Avengers week here at Strangers and Aliens! Monday through Sunday, we will be celebrating and geeing out about the Avengers series of movies, starting with Iron Man, going through the individual movies, and culminating in a weekend of release podcast episode! The Avengers is a unique product in that instead of a movie studio…
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Episode 16 — “Captain Kirk vs. Captain Picard — Round 2”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s part two! Dr. Jayce, Ben, and Steve continue their conversation about what they love (and hate) about Star Trek. We’d love to hear from you about YOUR favorite captains, YOUR favorite series, YOUR favorite ships, YOUR favorite crew! E-mail us at podcast@strangersandaliens.com. If you’d like, you can even…
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“Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction” Giant Size Special (COOL COMIC COVERS #5)
Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Giant Size Special. Next week we’ve got a lot of superhero things happening around here, so here’s an amazing sci-fi cover. It’s got bubble helmets. A rocket.…
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Episode 15 — “Captain Kirk vs. Captain Picard — Round 1”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSCaptain Kirk. Captain Picard. Two different eras of television. Two different eras of Star Trek. Two different command styles. Two different acting styles. Two different crews. Two different ships. Two different storylines. Two different hairlines. Two different waistlines. And for fans of science fiction, two different opinions. In…
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Fear #1 (COOL COMIC COVERS #4)
Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: I don’t know why I love swamp monsters. It has something to do with the primal idea of the very earth or soil coming alive beneath you, perhaps. Or the idea of…
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VIDEO: “Happy Birthday David”, Prometheus Promo
If the movie Prometheus is just half as good as this “faux-commercial/short sci-fi film”, then I think sci-fi fans have something to look forward to. What strikes me is that this little promotional video, intended to generate interest in Ridley Scott’s prequel/not-a-prequel to his Alien movie, has a bundle of interesting ideas. Watching it, I…
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VIDEO: Presenting Al and Jerry!
Coming to us from their starship, in the deepest space of deep space, Al and Jerry are the new spokes-creatures for the Strangers and Aliens podcast! They’ve recorded a few messages for us and beamed it to the Strangers and Aliens command center . . . They also did a promo for us about our…
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Episode 14 — “Hunger Games”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis episode is about the movie and book that has everyone talking. Including the strangers and aliens . . . Ben has read the book and seen the movie. Dr. Jayce has seen the movie. And Steve hasn’t done either. So Steve picks Ben and Dr. Jayce’s brains…
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“From Beyond the Unknown” #12 (COOL COMIC COVERS #3)
Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: Cavemen on dinosaurs vs. fighter jets. Drawn by Joe Kubert! Does anything else need to be said? ~ Ben Previous Cool Comic Covers: #2 — “Action Comics” #419 #1 — “Weird Science-Fantasy” #27
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April is Poetry Month!
Okay, so it’s the 9th, but, hey, HOLY WEEK! That sort of takes precedence over poetry, dontcha think? Anyway, this challenge has its roots in a request I made to Ben and Jayce for topic ideas. While I have a whole bank of ideas myself, sometimes I like to get other people’s input on what…
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“Action Comics” #419 (COOL COMIC COVERS #2)
Cool Comic Covers is a weekly (almost) look back at some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This week: I’m not going to say too much about the covers that appear here. If I have some sort of historical tidbit to give, I may elaborate some. But often I’m just going…
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THOUGHT CLOUDS: Harlan Ellison’s Phoenix Without Ashes (Comic Review)
PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES Harlan Ellison, writer; Alan Robinson, artist This review of a graphic novel starts with a review of a TV series from 1973, so bear with me. When I was but a lad, I went and saw Star Wars on the big screen and wanted more. On the small screen, in my very…
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Episode 13 — “Marvel Movies vs. DC Movies”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe all love movies. We all love superhero movies. And we have a love/hate relationship with superhero movies. For this episode, the strangers and aliens who host this podcast have a fun little competition: which comic book empire has had the best movies made for their characters. From…
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TOTAL RECALL trailer: I recall seeing something like this before…
The trailer for Total Recall is out! And I have to say, in this geek’s opinion, it looks fantastic. Very, very different than the original, for sure. And yet, oddly the same. Phillip K. Dick’s story was the basis for the Arnold movie back in the day, and Arnold’s movie, despite being an Arnold movie,…
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“Weird Science-Fantasy” #27 (COOL COMIC COVERS #1)
Cool Comic Covers is a new series for the Strangers and Aliens blog. As listeners and readers know, Ben, Steve, and Dr. Jayce are all comic book fans. And comic book covers have some of the most interesting, intriguing, and engaging artwork in pop culture. This series will spotlight some of the comic book covers…
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Dr. Jayce’s New Little Alien
I always told my wife that I think all new borns look a little like aliens. They are cute aliens, but aliens non-the-less. However, our newest bundle of joy does not look like an alien or a stranger. She looks like an angel. I know I’m biased, but oh well. Serendipity Psalm O’Neal was born March…
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2012 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films — What Are YOU Looking Forward to?
Well, the studios have already dumped a couple big sci-fi/fantasy films on us, with movies like Chronicle (haven’t seen but want to), Ghost Rider (haven’t seen, probably will even though I have zero expectations to like it), John Carter (best box office flop of the decade), and Hunger Games (thoughts on the book and movie…
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Star Trek: Our Poll’s Winning Captain…
[poll id=”6″] Well, is anyone surprised at the results from our poll? Captain Picard won our poll, with over half of the votes! He’s the captain most of you would prefer as their commanding officer. So, okay Dr. Jayce, you’ve won this round…but not the war! Picard is an even handed leader who commands respect…
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Episode 12 — “John Carter of Mars”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJohn Carter, Disney’s $250 million sci-fi epic adventure movie opened to disappointing numbers this weekend, pulling in just a touch more than $100 million. Disappointing box office aside, was the movie itself a disappointment? Ben and Steve saw it this weekend and recorded this special, impromptu episode of…
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REVIEW: Green Lantern Is ABOUT Hollywood
Green Lantern. For those who don’t know, it’s a superhero sci-fi fantasy action movie about Hal Jordan, who is given a ring (and a lantern, which charges the ring) that can create anything Hal can imagine using the power of green (also known as willpower) . . . which comes with a price: he is…
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