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Medium (based on experiences of real-world psychic Allison DuBois) premiered in January of 2005 to strong numbers and garnered its star Patricia Arquette a Best Actress in a Drama Series Emmy. It has since survived scheduling chaos, moving from Monday to Wednesday and then back to Monday, And now with the current season, it's jumped to Friday and it's jumped from NBC to CBS, where it's been filmed all along. Fans like us at ComicsOnline are hoping that this will lend some stability and allow Medium to continue for another five seasons.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies hit stores today, and to celebrate, how about some exclusive individual interviews with five of the creators and talent? We've got interviews with actor Clancy Brown of LOST and Earth 2 fame, Bruce Timm of everything DC Universe Animated fame, Kevin Conroy the definitive voice of Batman, Andrea Romano the casting and voice director for everything in the animated DCU, and Stan Berkowitz who adapted into a screenplay the original six-issue arc by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness that began the Superman/Batman series back in 2003.

The aforementioned writer Stan Berkowitz

Clancy Brown has escaped the Swan Hatch, but can he escape justice at the hands of Superman and Batman?

He's making me smile like this.                                            Photo: Mrs. Lawrence

While hardcore comic book fanboy support for NBC's Heroes seemed to have waned over Seasons 2 and 3, those of us that stuck with our interconnected group of heroes were treated to an strong season end. If you were among those who dropped out, now's the time to pick up the Blu-rays and catch up before the new season starts.

Heroes debuted in 2006 to strong reviews as a handful of otherwise normal people began popping up with powers. Doctor Suresh, an Indian professor was studying this phenomenon, and tracking the recipients of these extraordinary gifts, but when his son Mohinder followed him to New York, he found that his father had been killed and his research had been ransacked. Why was his father killed? Who on earth has powers and what kinds? How long and how deep does this conspiracy run that killed his father?

Three seasons have come and gone and the answers to some of these questions are still unravelling. Season Three begins as there's an assassination attempt ...

SPOILER ALERT! CLICK READ MORE FOR SPOILERS ON SEASON 3 AND MORE!

Supernatural originally debuted as part of 2005's fall season, and followed its Thursday partner Smallville from the WB over to the CW, until this year when Smallville when Clark ditches his younger brothers Sam and Dean and moves to Fridays. No review material available on the latest Smallville Blu-rays unfortunately, so no review on the website, but our podcast listeners know we talk about the show often there.

In plenty of time for the premiere of The Fourth Season on Showtime next month (September 27th, 2009), Dexter: The Third Season is out on Blu-ray now from Paramount so you can relive the excitement of last season,  or experience it for the first time, all in the best way possible: 1080p resolution and Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1.

Dexter: The First Season introduced Dexter Morgan, Miami's secret antihero serial killer of serial killers, and the cast of characters in his life including his sister, officer Debra Morgan (Hall's real-life wife Jennifer Carpenter, Quarantine), his mental ghost Jiminy Cricket and foster father Police Officer Harry Morgan (James Remar, Jericho), girlfriend Rita Bennett (Julie Benz, Darla from Buffy and Angel), fellow forensic scientist Vince Masuka (CS Lee, Harry Tang from Chuck). Season One centered around "The Ice Truck Killer", a serial murderer who turned out to be closer to Dexter than anyone would have thought.

Dexter: The Second Season spins right out of the first, when bags containing the bodies of Dexter's victims are found by divers in the water off the Florida coast, and Miami Metro PD focuses all it's resources on finding a new serial killer, and ironically that serial killer is one of the department's resources.

*SPOILER ALERT* Read on for details about the beginning of Dexter: the Third Season.

ComicsOnline's Matt Sernaker (winner of ABC's LOST theme song contest and moderator of Sony's Comic Con Spectacular Spider-Man panel) took time out of his busy Con schedule to interview Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku about the future of Dollhouse (with some help from our new friends at the awesome Wired Magazine).

"I know you've heard colorful rumors about what an Active is... An Active is the truest soul among us."

After the success of Buffy and Angel, after the abortive debacle that was Firefly and its bittersweet redemption that was Serenity, Joss Whedon has brought us into his third immersive television universe: that of Dollhouse.

Dollhouse premiered on Friday the 13th in February. Dollhouse aired on FOX, the same network that at least harpooned if not sabotaged Whedon's last outing with them and yet there we were again, the Whedon fans who had watched every episode of each series, who know all the lyrics to "Once More with Feeling", Jayne's song, and Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog--There we were again cringing or maybe not even watching, thinking that this was another Whedon masterpiece where some unknown assumed dark conspiracy would axe it before it had a chance to thrive and reach its potential. But this time, despite the portents to the contrary, despite our own naysaying and failing to watch because we hated to witness another painful Firefly end to a Whedon Series...

Dollhouse not only completed its first season, but Season Two has already begun shooting (see our interview with Dichen and Fran).

Joss Whedon's Dollhouse Season One is now in 1080p video and Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on Blu-ray (and DVD too, but really do you want to still bother buying DVDs?) so Whedon fans and other fans of good genre dramas can now get the whole first season, not just the twelve episodes that aired Fridays on FOX, but also the unaired episode zero pilot "Echo" and the much sought-after future-set episode 13: "Epitaph One" guest-starring warrior princess of the geeks Felicia Day from Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Read on for more including MAJOR SPOILERS for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse Season One!

ComicsOnline Junior Editor Kendrick interviews Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria about his new comic "Kill Audio".

ComicsOnline Junior Editor Kendrick interviews Zach Levy (Chuck) and Josh Gomez (Morgan) from Chuck at Comic Con 2009.

14 year old Morgan interviews the very tall Adam Baldwin, aka Colonel Casey from Chuck.

better late than never, I'm testing the blog function so the staff can use this.

Burn Notice is one of those shows that creeps up on you and eventually sends you scrambling to get the prior seasons so you can watch more. It's not because you need to have watched season one and two to enjoy any given episode, really all you need to know is given in each show's opener. Sure, there are some plot arcs that cover two episodes or even the whole season or series, but really, it's not that complicated. To me when I first watched it, I thought that it was yet another Stu Segall (Renegade, Silk Stalkings, Veronica Mars) production, as it very much has that same feel, but while this very much echoes other USA Network past offerings, this is from Fox.

Our new header is an apropos respose to our feelings regarding the events of Invincible #63. That was a cheap punk death. Her powers are too awesome to go out like that.

Thoughts?

The Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films consists of six DVDs all sold separately, but altogether they add up to 33 short films covering six and a half hours of stories that we all grew up with from the black & white 1930s shorts through more modern classic shorts like Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Goliath II and Paul Bunyan. None of these are contemporary films by any means, but you'll no doubt recognize the vast majority of them, even if you only now realize how awful some of them are as an adult. Not worry however, those in that category are a bare few, and there are some gems that are every bit as marvelous today as they were when we first saw them as kids. There are only three real problems with this collection:

While ol' Shellhead's second feature film won't be out for a while, moviegoers can get a glimpse of the golden avenger here today with one photo of Tony in front of several armor iterations and a bizarre whiplash that is something of a departure from the one we've come to know in the comics.

Iron Man 2 premieres May 7, 2010. See you there!

"'Shake and Bake?' I Effing HATE Nascar!"