Imaginary Worlds

Jason Suran wants you to know he can’t talk to the dead. Then he will convince you that he can. In Suran’s show, The Other Side, he...

We all know Godzilla’s iconic roar, but the musician who scored Godzilla's rampages is not as well known. The composer Akira Ifukube’s...

One of the most popular anime series just became widely available when Netflix started streaming Neon Genesis Evangelion. Evangelion is...

Walt Disney pioneered the art of hand drawn animation, but it was really his top animators, “The Nine Old Men,” who were responsible for...

Movie trailers have come a long way from the voice-of-God narrators in the ‘80s and ‘90s. So why do the big budget sci-fi fantasy trailers...

Mexican wrestling (aka Lucha Libre) has a lot in common with the superhero genre, but trying to be a superhero in real life has its own set...

I talked with legendary audio drama producer Dirk Maggs for an episode about the history of radio dramas last year-- but a lot of great...

He's one of the most popular pro-wrestlers of all time, but Mark Calaway’s undead character The Undertaker is also an anachronism from a...

Imagine walking into your living room, and alongside your couch is a prop from one of your favorite childhood movies. Sure, it was costly...

Burlesque has merged with geek culture to form nerdlesque – where characters from familiar fantasy franchises strip down to pasties and...

In the conclusion of our mini-series on sidekicks, we look at how Harley Quinn began as a sidekick to a villain, and found her way to the...

In part two of our mini series on sidekicks, we look at two characters that have travelled in parallel since they came out of the same...

To kick off our mini-series on sidekicks, we look at the most iconic and long-standing sidekick in pop culture: Doctor Watson. For 130...

Witness if you will a writer: Rod Serling. This is the story of a man with a vision -- a vision of what television could be if only men...

Ever since George Lucas cited Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” as the inspiration for Star Wars, Hollywood...

50 years ago this month, Kurt Vonnegut introduced Billy Pilgrim and the aliens who gave him time traveling powers in his novel...

In the 1930s Margaret Brundage was the hottest pulp fiction magazine illustrator. She primarily painted covers for Weird Tales magazine,...

Conan the Barbarian is generally thought of as a muscle-bound brute who fights his way through a made-up ancient world. But the character...

In some video games, you can choose which character you want to play, and you can customize the look of those characters. For many...

One of the unique aspects of video games is that you can control the characters. But game developers are often torn between wanting to give...