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SCI-FI FOR KIDS: Wall*E
When I was a kid, my imagination was dazzled by Superman and Star Wars on the silver screen and Superfriends and Battle of the Planets on the small screen (among many, many other things), not to...
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VIDEO: Tron: Uprising! (I added the exclamation point)
Tron is something I’d like us to tackle here at Strangers and Aliens sometime soon, even though the first movie is really old (by real time standards) and the second movie is really old (by American...
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SCI-FI/FANTASY FOR KIDS: The Secret World of Arrietty
My kids and I are huge fans of Studio Ghibli. I love almost everything that I have seen from them, and my kids adore My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio. I would...
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SCI-FI/FANTASY FOR KIDS: Zondervan’s Graphic Novels
A few years ago, I was privileged to be a part of an ambitious publishing plan. Zondervan’s children’s division, Zonderkidz, was going to publish six different graphic novel series. Each series was to...
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SCI-FI/FANTASY FOR KIDS: Phineas and Ferb!
In a previous podcast that Steve and I co-hosted back in the day, in an episode that is long since deleted and gone, I asked “What is there for the current generation that is as inspiring as Star Wars...
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An Epic Christmas: Watching Rankin Bass Christmas Specials as an Epic...
UPDATED POST: When I first posted this last year, I mentioned it may be incomplete due to not seeing (or remembering that I had seen, as it turned out) some Rankin Bass specials. I’ve since seen them,...
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THOUGHT CLOUDS: Star Wars #1 (Dark Horse, 2013)
Star Wars #1 Brain Wood, writer. Carlos D’Anda, artist. So there is a new Star Wars comic. A Star Wars comic that tells the story of the characters from MY Star Wars. A Star Wars comic featuring a...
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman — THOUGHT CLOUDS #10
Mr. Peabody and Sherman IDW Publishing; Sholly Fisch, writer; Jorge Monlongo, artist I have always enjoyed the exploits Mr. Peabody and his boy, Sherman. They are one of my earliest exposures to time...
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