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I wonder if the shot of Johnny high above the Earth is from Byrne's Galactus story where Frankie Ray becomes a herald of Galactus.

I think that the MCU's been doing weird stuff with the Fantastic Four. What with Doctor Strange 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine killing Mister Fantastic and The Human Torch. I don't know why they've set up the FF as a punch line in those movies only for now to be these wholesome characters. I'm still psyched for this movie despite past MCU movies, the retro-future is something I think everyone has been wanting, and the array of villains calls back to the "hard day's night" take for previous FF movies. I'm cautiously excited for both this and the new Captain America.

A few years ago this would have excited me, but all the recent Marvel movies have been duds, so not that hopeful.

I love Ben still has a love for cooking. :) Good characterization

I liked the teaser trailer well enough but I didn’t like the Thing’s voice

I’m thinking the Norman Rockwell vibe cooooould be what sells it. The kids today love calling things wholesome. Will click on videos and pics promising wholesome moments. The idea that the kids always want edgy may be outdated. They could be ahead of the curve on this one.

I hope captain America and fantastic 4 are both hits but I think if one is going to bomb it’s going to be cap 4

I just wish they'd asked Pedro to get rid of the moustache.

The trailer looks very toy friendly. Ironically (given that that film is an FF homage), The Incredibles seems to be one of the main visual influences.

Hope you're wrong Tom!

Reed Richards is a little more reserved and stern then what Pedro was doing in his take in my opinion. Like Robert Stack or Peter Graves in a lot of their rolls.

Interesting that you reference Down With Love, considering that Peyton Reed was hoping to make Fantastic Four as his follow up to that film! (He described his pitch as A Hard Day’s Night with superheroes, and I am *so* down to see something like that.) And they actually used to air the Hanna-Barbera FF cartoon on Boomerang, about 10-15 years ago. (Though it was kind of rare to see it in the schedule, they downplayed superhero shows as time went on.)

First!!!!!!!! Love you Tom!

New gods Sunday school 😂👍

Still have most of this toy.

With old school coloring, a gray Black Racer would have just been a blob. Beyond such technical reasons and fitting in with the rest of the cast, I wonder if the primary colors were because of death being a primary force in life, and/or a sort of ironic/contrasting play on these colors being associated with Superman and the good guys in general, while the villains are typically secondary colors; maybe a signifier that death is not a negative force, or not a matter of good or evil. There is also a precedent in Norse mythology of a goddess of the hunt on skis, which I find to be a little more defensible over the surfboard included because it was topical to the contemporary youth culture. We could very well have ended up with Galactus's herald, The Silver Skier. I don't see how one is less silly than the other; it's more that it's tough to beat that arresting liquid metal humaniod design, elegant in its simplicity. Maybe the Black Racer should have been a shiny man of obsidian? But then again, I do think there might be a method to that color scheme.

My Star Trek Happy Meal came with iron-ons. My mom made me an awesome Starfleet uniform with them in 1979.

3 is the best of the franchise

I totally got these back in the day when TMP came out! What a long-ago memory!

Loved this series. Any chance for a longer vid on issue #3?

First found this from Rifftrax ;)

In the UK there were Star Trek the motion picture ice lollies they were amazing and cane with collectible cards i think

Herd of werewolves?? Surely a pack!!

Read the final part today. A very satisfying conclusion and great fun to read. Great work Tom!!

Such a fun series. Any chance of a sequel/spinoff?

I believe Steve Reaves original son of Zeus could beat the first Godzilla pulling a chain around his wind pipe! Will this be collected in a larger format? Go Jack Kirby!

The "He has truly become...The Great Gatsby" was, by far, my favorite line in the series. It's both hilarious and awesome.

I agree with Matt. One of my favorite comics ever. Please give us a treasury sized collected edition.

I relate to what you said about having dreams of living on the TNG Enterprise. That’s what made the loss of the Enterprise D in this movie one of the things that turned me off of it. I enjoyed that whole spaceship Earth vibe and the big open and airy bridge. Something about made it very easy to imagine yourself being there. It was also the last time they were allowed to have the damn overhead lights on. Looking at the E bridge felt like just having the battle-bridge all the time. I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like Star Trek for me basically starts with TOS and ended with All Good Things. The other series and TNG movies never really hit the same even the ones people consider good. When I try to get into Trek now I eventually just end up recalling Picard’s line from Insurrection “Do you remember when we used to be explorers?” As for in the theater experience of this move I do recall the crowd popping for Data’s “Ohhhh shit.” line.

That's so cool!

Amazing finds! I watched an interview with Spader many years ago and I'm pretty sure that he said his action figure's face was modeled after John Tesh. Thanks, guys!

When I saw this movie in theaters, most of the Data scenes got laughs from the audience, especially his line before the ship crashes. I was excited by this movie when it came out but over time I grew less enthusiastic about this movie and really all the TNG movies (even First Contact which was one of my favorite StarTrek movies for a while)

In 1984, a 13 year-old me read this book before I saw the movie. I re-read portions over and over. Well-written book.

That alien illustration. Classic.

Those Happy Meal boxes are amazing. Great find.

Star Trek Generations is one of the worst Star Treks. From the ridiculous Holodeck scene at sea to Kirk's underwhelming death from falling down a hill, Generations is weak and misguided. It was also a pathetic way to end Kirk's story and a giant mistake, considering that Shatner is now 93 and is still standing while so many from the original series cast is gone. Imagine having the original series captain from the 1960s still around and acting, and the yet franchise is not using him in any way.

What a massive disappointment- it's basically an average tng two parter, but it needed to be something bigger than that and if they couldn't get more of the original cast and had them in more of the film, they shouldn't have bothered imo Kirk deserved better and so did Data, there's a germ of interesting ideas and theme but it's executed in the most dull and miserable manner. The screenwriters shoild work for the Big 2 It's still a better story for my money than any of the post Enterprise Trek I've seen. (All 3 of the Kelvin films, two season of Discovery and half a season of Picard and the Admiral told him to stfu and I was like "No you stfu, this sucks" and then I've been done until Kurtzman and Goldsman are gone 😂)

This movie was on repeat at my favorite comic store in 95. The staff had to watch the whole movie at least once a day, every day! It's lucky that it's pretty entertaining, and it has more action than most TNG episodes.

I was so excited to see this movie, and I let my family know. The weekend it came out I was surprised by my mother say “let’s go see it”. I got the Stella cryptography scene, and I caught myself staring at the wall lights in the theater. I was so bored. I didn’t like anything about this movie. And man did I hate Data.

Another great episode! Would love to hear your thoughts on Phantom of the Paradise and Hi, Mom

Brent Spiner was extra Goofy on Night Court

I've just recently started watching Star Trek Voyager for the first time around and its fantastic. I feel I may also be at the height of my Star Trek fandom at the moment.

Generations is so much better than Episodes 7-9 and it was panned in 94. I thought it was a very good movie and still holds up today. Oh, and just calling yourself a Skywalker doesn't make you one.

Oh yeah! Had that HAL thing! Almost forgot that

Great episode 😆😂

These reviews have inspired me to track these down, at least I-IV (so far), and I'm stoked to dig into them.

Body Double was the perfect midnight movie for me to be suprised with on the local station as a kid going through puberty! Made me an instant De Palma fan, and I fell in love with Melanie Griffith.

So fascinating to see evolving ideas he used on previous works or the roots of later ideas, like the barrio where everyone is a superhero including background characters, which he clearly expanded upon in Top 10.

Back in the 90s, at a Star Trek convention I attended, George Takei was asking people to write to Paramount to get his Star Trek Excelsior show made. That would have been interesting. Thanks for the review of these Star Trek books and keep up the good work!

I love Sulu’s arc in this book because his decision to help Kirk steal the Enterprise has real weight. He’s been screwed over by Starfleet but they’re still dangling the carrot of the Excelsior to get him to do what they want, and he decides to give up that dream to help his friends.