Recent content by Brikar

OK, I know I just watched TNG not too long ago, but with these blurays, I thought it would be nice to go through and comment on the restorations episode by episode. Disc One 1x01-1x02 "Encounter at Farpoint" - First impressions, obviously, are that this show looks astonishing. On DVD, the...

I know there's already a thread like this, but I'm gonna restart it anyway. 1x01/1x02 "Emissary" - Commander Benjamin Sisko gathers his crew aboard the space station Deep Space Nine on the Federation border where he discovers the first stable wormhole known to exist, placing the station and...

1x01/02 "Broken Bow" - Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise NX-01 undertakes his first mission, to return a wounded Klingon carrying vital intelligence back to his people. Archer paces some more so we know how serious he is. As a pilot episode, this one's pretty decent. It has trouble, of...

1x01/1x02 "Caretaker" - The starship Voyager, in pursuit of a band of Maquis resistance fighters, is pulled 75,000 light years across the galaxy by a mysterious alien 'caretaker.' Captain Kathryn Janeway is forced to make a moral decision to help the Caretaker to save the kindly Ocampa race...

You know the drill. 1x01-1x02 "Encounter at Farpoint" - The crew of the new USS Enterprise-D runs afoul of the mysterious Q, who puts humanity on trial for being a "savage child-race." To prove humanity's worth, Captain Picard, Commander Riker and the rest must solve the 'mystery' of...

Aside from the fact that I seem to somehow be 100% unhirable, despite positive interview after positive interview... ...tonight my soul-sucking vampire job throws this curveball: For all color pictures printed in the paper, we must use .tif files. Now, the photographers give us their images as...

The Ron Jones Project is a 14-disc (!!!) collection of Ron Jones' scores for 42 episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Seasons 1-4. The first disc features the scores for "The Naked Now," "Where No One Has Gone Before" and "Lonely Among Us." What's fascinating about these scores is...

Recent news about Fox moving ahead with a new 'Daredevil' movie made me want to go ahead and draw Marvel's Man Without Fear. I redesigned the costume a bit... I wanted him to look a bit more functional and also a couple callbacks to his ninja training origins. This is where I'm at with it so far.

Well, I decided not to continue 'Babylon 5'. Instead, I'll turn my efforts toward 'Farscape', another series I've seen bits and pieces of but never explored in depth. 1x01 "Premiere" - Astronaut John Crichton is sucked into a wormhole to a bizarre area of space. His ship accidentally collides...

OK, so I've heard a lot about this show. People seem to love it. I've caught the occasional episode here or there, but never really got into it. Much like my episode-by-episode reviews of TOS, I'm gonna tackle J. Michael Straczynski's sci-fi opus via the magic of Netflix Watch Instantly...

AMC has aired two episodes of the series now. The pilot, directed by Frank Darabont, was just plain freaking awesome. It takes the basic blueprint of the comics, brings it to life and expands up on it. My favorite part of the pilot is probably expanding on the roles of Morgan and Duane...

Picked up this new graphic novel by J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis. Superman's origin is one of my favorite stories. I've read and watched numerous versions of it, and it never feels tired to me. I always enjoy seeing the tragic end of Krypton, a young boy raised well by caring...

So last weekend was a sales tax holiday here in Massachusetts. I used the opportunity to purchase a Wacom Intuos4 "Medium" graphics tablet. This thing takes some serious getting used to, but I'm pretty frickin' excited about it. I've spent some time over the last week just playing around...

A couple of teaser images for the comic book/graphic novel I've been working on. I'm doing one a day this week for the major characters.

Based on the comics by Robert Kirkman. Tells the story of Rick Grimes, a cop who gets shot and wakes up from his coma to find that the world has been overrun by zombies. He sets out to find his wife and child and hopefully search for a place where they can all be safe. The comic series...