Archive | November, 2005
Belle & Sebastian comics
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 [...]
Continue reading...Belle & Sebastian comics
22. November 2005
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 [...]
Continue reading...Grimwood speaks
21. November 2005
Most Excellent Brit author Jon Courtney Grimwood – one of those refreshing authors who is tabbed as SF but really defies genre labelling; he’s one of my favourite writers – speaks to the also excellent Sandy Auden about his latest novel, 9Tail Fox (one of our Book Picks in the current FPI magazine; an absorbing [...]
Continue reading...ILM at 30
21. November 2005
Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects wizards created by George Lucas for the original Star Wars movie, is 30 years old this year. Regardless of your feelings towards Star Wars and the proliferation of special effects in movies (the great Ray Bradbury was rather negative on digital effects in the new SFX) ILM re-wrote [...]
Continue reading...Super art
18. November 2005
We all know that some comic artwork is ‘real’ art in it’s own right, but this site takes it one step further, with interpretations of famous art works by Degas, Gainsborough, Hopper, Picasso and others with superheroes! Well worth a visit.
Continue reading...Dalek auction
18. November 2005
The BBC reports that a Dalek used in several episodes of the original Doctor Who and which graced the cover of the Radio Times for the show’s 20th anniversary back in 1983 has sold at auction for the healthy sum of £36, 000, with proceeds going to Great Ormond Street hospital (thanks to Ariel for [...]
Continue reading...It’s a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s…
18. November 2005
The official site for Superman Returns has just posted a teaser trailer for the movie online. It is short but I thought it looked interesting (although the voice-over was veering a little to close to the Messianic for my taste). Many fans have been less than impressed with the new costume, but it certainly looks [...]
Continue reading...Rapping Graphic Novels
18. November 2005
Pocket/MTV books is to publish a new range of graphic novels and novellas which will feature characters drawn from musician 50 Cent (currently to be seen in his movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ) and his G-Unit popular beat combo. The publisher say the series “will tell the truth about The Life; the sex, [...]
Continue reading...DC to publish more Pekar
17. November 2005
Great news for fans of good comics and curmudgeons everywhere: “Writer Harvey Pekar is returning to American Splendor, his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series, with a new American Splendor mini-series from Vertigo, DC Comics’ For Mature Readers imprint. For the new mini-series, Pekar will work with several artists, including Dean Haspiel, who collaborated with Pekar [...]
Continue reading...TV SF – one dies and one rises
16. November 2005
The bad news first – the new series of Kochak, the Night Stalker has been cancelled already after being put up against the likes of CSI in its time slot. It is unclear if the unaired episoides will now be broadcast (and of course we haven’t seen them at all in the UK). One the [...]
Continue reading...Black Hole movie
16. November 2005
No, not a remake of the dire Disney film, I’m glad to say, but news from Variety and Flog (Fantagraphic’s blog) that Charles Burns’ Black Hole has been optioned for a movie adaptation, with Alexandre Aja (Switchblade Romance) attached to direct. The story, originally published as a comic by Fantagraphics and recently released [...]
Continue reading...Morta and Gogol
16. November 2005
I received a very unusual couple of emails from Morta and Gogol the other day; they were colourful and confusing at the same time, but they were certainly a couple of the most unusual emails I’ve had this week. The gist of them – at least, I think this is the gist of them – [...]
Continue reading...Cybersuits
15. November 2005
The Register has a scoop on the new Cyberman designs for the second season of the new Doctor Who series. Not entirely sure about them myself – the face has the blank look of some of the earlier designs but other parts (especially the hips) look like a cross between Robocop and Maria from Metropolis. [...]
Continue reading...Barbarians in the Bigg Apple
15. November 2005
Arthur Suydam and his crew have dropped us a line to let us know he will be at the Big Apple Convention, the National Comic Book, Art and Sci-Fi Expo and has also created a special poster for the occassion: “Arthur Suydam has just been tapped to commemorate Big Apple Conventions 10th Anniversary in a grand [...]
Continue reading...The wonderful world of World Fantasy
15. November 2005
Jeff VanderMeer has just posted his report and impressions of the recent World Fantasy convention in Madison. It is a little like a postmodern Odyssey, with Jeff sailing from bar to bar, meeting to meeting, panel to panel, with the great of the genre replacing the characters Ulysses encountered (and Jeff did get to [...]
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