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The acclaimed Vestron Video Collector’s Series delivers a gripping dystopian punch when the suspenseful and action-packed Steel Dawn (1987) — available for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray (plus Digital) — arrives on October 26 from Lionsgate.

The acclaimed Vestron Video Collector’s Series delivers a gripping dystopian punch when the suspenseful and action-packed Steel Dawn — available for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray (plus Digital) — arrives on October 26 from Lionsgate. Golden Globe® nominee Patrick Swayze stars as a new breed of warrior in a post-nuclear era where laws are useless and water is more precious than blood. Also featuring Lisa Niemi (TV’s “Super Force”) and Primetime Emmy® Award winner Anthony Zerbe, Steel Dawn will be available on limited-edition Blu-ray for the suggested retail price of $17.99.

“Whoever controls the water controls the valley,” proclaims the evil Damnil in this cult favorite starring Patrick Swayze as Nomad, an ex-soldier roaming the desert wastes of a war-ravaged world.

G. Gordon Liddy, a central Watergate figure who spent more than four years in prison but went on to appear in a number of TV series, a few films and hosted a radio talk show for two decades, died Tuesday in Virginia, his son Thomas told media outlets. He was 90.

Unrepentant till the end, the imposing, mustachioed Liddy led the “Plumbers,” President Nixon’s secret White House group, but was not among those caught burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in June 1972. Still, he was tried on conspiracy and burglary charges as the mastermind of the scheme. Also convicted of refusing to testify at the Watergate hearings, he served more than 51 months in federal prison.

He famously did not implicate Nixon, but the 37th president of the United States was forced to resign in August 1974 amid the growing scandal.

Liddy is referenced — but his character did...

Earlier this week in the mail I got Together, the new New Pornographers record. Not to brag, but it also came with a poster and a 7” I haven’t listened to yet. How is it? Pretty good. Not my favorite New Pornos record, unfortunately, but better than most things in the world. The great thing about a New Pornographers album is that there will always be at least a few brilliant uptempo power-pop tracks on it, and so the inevitable “Best Of” record is going to be Epic.

So welcome to This Week in Comics, where every week is a comic and I totally listened to Together over and over while writing this one.

Monday

First Issues

Shadowhawk #1

(Dan Wickline/Tone Rodriguez/Steve Niles/Jim Valentino)

Shadowline/Image Comics

Ah, Shadowhawk, one of the smaller creations of the early Image Comics vanguard. One supposes that Jim Valentino wasn’t as big as the Liefelds,...