Archive | April, 2005

Star Wars TV

30. April 2005

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George Lucas has announced that the forthcoming Revenge of the Sith will not be the end of Star Wars. Making an almost unprecedented personal appearance at a Star Wars convention in Indianapolis, the check-shirted one told fans that there were plans afoot for two new television series, set in-between events occurring in Sith and the [...]

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Lee settles

29. April 2005

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Stan The Man Lee, creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Fantastic Four… (list goes on for a ridiculous length – the man is just a Comic Icon) has settled his court case with Marvel over unpaid royalties due him, notably from the huge profits on the Spider-Man movies by Sam Raimi. Marvel decided not to pursue [...]

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Dude, where’s my towel?

28. April 2005

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Yes, after years of false starts and languishing in development hell, the movie version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy finally arrives on general release this weekend. Some of you will be new to it, some of you (like me) have been following it from the original radio series. We’ve got some very cool [...]

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Signing

27. April 2005

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My colleague Kevin tells me that we have a couple of signings coming up in May in our Irish branches in Dublin and Belfast (hi, guys!). Erica Durance, who has appeared on The Collector, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda and Tru Calling among many others and is currently gracing our screens as Lois Lane in the excellent Smallville [...]

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Serenity

27. April 2005

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A trailer for Serenity, Joss Whedon’s film outing of his excellent-but-still-cancelled Western-in-space series, Firefly has been posted on the web to whet our appetites. Still a bit of a wait for the film, especially for those of us in the UK, but at least we have Joss’ own comic book adaptation to look forward to [...]

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Bite me

27. April 2005

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Howard Chaykin’s Bite Club has just hit the shelves in the last few days. A digest-sized graphic novel it collects the mini-series featuring the lives of Latino gangsters in Florida who just happen to be vampires. When the head of the Del Toro family is whacked his will names his son as his successor, despite the [...]

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Diorama

26. April 2005

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Fed up with your Star Wars figures falling over on the shelf? Well we have the solution to the heartbreak of tottering action figures – the Star Wars Diorama! A scene from the original movies with stands for vintage and new figures, coming in a cool retro-packaged box, great fun!

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Super

25. April 2005

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Warner Brothers studios have released the first image of Brandon Routh from the new Superman Returns film. In addition to newcomer Routh in the titular role the film will star Kevin Spacey, Frank Langella, James Marsden and Parker Posey. Helming duties are now in the very capable hands of Usual Suspects and X-Men director Bryan [...]

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Angel Fire

22. April 2005

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I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of a luscious little horror graphic novel from British independent publishers Shattered Frames. Angel Fire is the name of both the book and the new designer drug becoming popular with the rich; it promises the user a taste of Heaven itself, but Heaven, of course, comes [...]

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Making history

21. April 2005

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Edinburgh-based publishers Canongate have just printed a nice new edition of A History Maker by Alasdair Gray, a writer/artist who is surely one of Scotland’s artistic treasures (and one of my favourite writers). His magnificent Lanark: A Life in Four Books (probably the best Scottish novel of the last century in my opinion) is often [...]

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The Atlantic divide

20. April 2005

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One of our favourite authors, Hugo-nominated Charlie Stross, has been ruminating on why there has been such a surge of top-grade SF and Fantasy in the UK, while another Hugo-nominee, Cheryl Morgan, one of the movers and shakers (the shakes can be controlled by drugs apparently) behind Worldcon, posits her own reflections on the excellent [...]

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Locus

20. April 2005

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The latest edition of Locus (issue 531, Volume 54, No. 4 if you want it exactly) has arrived on our shelves. Among the usual mix of goodies there is coverage of the Tiptree, Stoker and Hugo awards, a tribute to the late Andre Norton who passed away very recently and an interview with the far-too-talented [...]

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Boldly podding…

19. April 2005

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Our friends over at Trek United, the campaign to save Star Trek we told you about recently, have announced the latest in a series of podcasts you can listen to, the latest of which features Chase Masterson of DS9 fame. Slice of SciFi is now being rated top dog by Podcast Alley, so motor on [...]

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The Eisners announced

19. April 2005

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The pre-eminent awards shortlist for all of Comicdom, the Eisners, have been announced. It is a massive and pretty diverse list. Below is a truncated version of the official press releases. The full text and the full nominations shortlists in detail can be found at the San Diego ComicCon International website. Our heartiest congratulations to [...]

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No Present Like Time

18. April 2005

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One of the excellent new authors to appear on the UK scene recently is Steph Swainston, who garnered rave reviews and an award for her vibrant and unusual fantasy debut last year, The Year of Our War. Steph is also one of the hot SF picks for our new catalogue this month for both the [...]

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