Archive | November, 2005

Losing my religion

30. November 2005

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Comic Beat points comics fans to a a site detailing the religious inclination of a number of famous superheroes, ranging from Protestant and Catholic to Tibetan Lamaism an some Native American theologies. On the same page is an excerpt from The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History by Mike Benton discussing the seven most [...]

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Jonathan Strange

30. November 2005

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Crooked Timber has a fascinating, multiple-perspective analysis of Susanah Clarke’s fantastic debut novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which I commend to anyone who has read this fascinating and richly detailed book. It is also available as a PDF to make it more readable. Thanks to Cheryl at Emerald City for the tip.

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Land of the Dead

30. November 2005

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IDW are to publish the graphic novel collection of their mini-series adaptation of George A Romero’s recent entry in his zombie series, Land of the Dead, in March. Romero recently talked on Moviehole.net about the possibility of another entry in his undead series (his fifth if it happens), but added little of substance to what [...]

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Ultraviolet

29. November 2005

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This seems to be a day for news of upcoming vampire movies: Movieweb (via SF Crowsnest) has a picture of Milla Jojovich (Fifth Element and Resident Evil) in a movie version of the critically-acclaimed Channel 4 UK series Ultraviolet. Starring Jack Davenport and Susanah Harker amongst others, the series was incredibly cool, taking a covert [...]

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Underworld pic

29. November 2005

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New pictures have been appearing online on sites like Comics Continuum for the second Underworld movie, again featuring the delectable British actress Kate Beckinsale, due early in 2006. Kris Oprisko and Antonio Vazquez have a graphic novel adaptation of the movie, Underworld Evolution, due from IDW in late December. If I am totally honest I [...]

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Indy books for February

28. November 2005

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There is a fairly diverse range of graphic novels from the smaller, independent publishers now available to browse in the February pre-orders on our website. The third volume of the new colour editions of Jeff Smith’s classic Bone series is due in February; top SF author and major comics fan James Lovegrove picked Bone as [...]

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Indy comics, Indy music

26. November 2005

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A few days ago I mentioned Image’s Belle and Sebastian graphic novel anthology by a number of Indy comics creators coming in the New year. Well, we decided this was so darned cool that we are now offering a whopping 35% off Put The Book Back On The Shelf on our site. Aren’t we just [...]

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Morgan signs new book deal

24. November 2005

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SciFi Wire reports that one of my favourite writers, Richard Morgan, has signed a five-book deal with Del Rey in the US. Richard powered his way into the UK scene with his violent noir-esque debut, Altered Carbon (if you are looking for a modern SF novel you should have read, that is one of them), [...]

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Dark Horse Darkness Duncan

24. November 2005

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Okay, that is enough alliteration on the letter D methinks. Dark Horse have made an announcement about some new Hellboy comics and since we are all huge Hellboy and Mike Mignola fans we had to post it: “Dark Horse is pleased to announce that Duncan Fegredo will be the artist on the new 2006 Hellboy [...]

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Vamp TV

23. November 2005

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I missed this news when it first came out, but better late than never! Charlaine Harris, author of the delightful Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mysteries, has a bit on her site talking about a TV pilot for a possible new show based on her Southern-set tales, being made by Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball: “HBO [...]

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VanderMeer’s Tall Tales

23. November 2005

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Good chum of the FPI blog Jeff VanderMeer has opened up a tall tales-telling area over on VanderWorld’s blog. Of course, writers are encouraged to ‘fabricate’ realities and make them believable, but the rest of us usually have the vulgar term ‘bulls**t’ flung our way when we do the same! But tall tales are fun [...]

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Behind the scenes at the Museum

23. November 2005

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Our beloved comics genre continues, slowly, to gain more serious artistic credibility (Absolute Watchman was reviewed recently in the NY Times). Two museums in Los Angeles are now holding exhibitions of the comic book art, with a collaboration between the Hammer Museum (not related to the British horror films as far as I know) and [...]

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Belle & Sebastian comics

22. November 2005

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The new graphic novels from Image Comics and Top Cow due in February are now live on our site. It’s a good mix, from Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Sam and Twitch to Rocketo, the tale of a Mapper and a mysterious land. There is also something very unusual in the shape of Put The [...]

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Belle & Sebastian comics

22. November 2005

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The new graphic novels from Image Comics and Top Cow due in February are now live on our site. It’s a good mix, from Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Sam and Twitch to Rocketo, the tale of a Mapper and a mysterious land. There is also something very unusual in the shape of Put The [...]

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Belle & Sebastian comics

22. November 2005

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The new graphic novels from Image Comics and Top Cow due in February are now live on our site. It’s a good mix, from Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Sam and Twitch to Rocketo, the tale of a Mapper and a mysterious land. There is also something very unusual in the shape of Put The [...]

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