Archive | May, 2006

New Emerald City out

22. May 2006

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The May edition – number 129 – of Emerald City is now out for your delictation and delight.

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Super X-Men competition at FPI

19. May 2006

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When you pay a visit to our shiny, goody-filled webstore (pausing to admire the handiwork of my webslinging colleagues who have revamped the graphics for your delictation and delight), among the cool pics you will see a banner near the the top for our X-Men 3 competition being held in conjunction with the film-makers Fox. [...]

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New graphic novels roundup

19. May 2006

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Wow, it’s been a very busy ole’ week on the graphic novels front; in addition to the new crop from DC I discussed earlier this week Marvel, Image, Fantagraphics and Devil’s Due have all posted new lists of forthcoming graphic novel goodness. Time and space don’t allow for a full listing here – besides the [...]

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The Friday giggle

19. May 2006

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Top Marvel scribe Paul Jenkins has a lengthy post up in his Flogging a Dead Horse column over on Newsarama in which he describes in excruciating detail the problems of dealing with a post-operative other half who is still doped up and possibly demonically possessed while attempting to drive in gridlocked traffic and make a [...]

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Shriek movie update

19. May 2006

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Jeff VanderMeer has posted an update on the Shriek movie, including details of a real theatrical show as well as more browser-based screenings for those of us who can’t make it. Details over on VanderWorld and here’s a glimpse of the movie poster design:

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Carl Brandon Awards

19. May 2006

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The Carl Brandon Society (which promotes specualtive fiction both by ethnic writers and work concerning ethnic groupings and race) has named the winners for this year, ahead of the actual ceremony at WisCon (robbing the event of a little drama, as Cheryl points out). Top scribe Walter Mosley (best know for his crime novels) won [...]

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Battlestar comics

19. May 2006

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Well, we may have while to wait for season three of the excellent new Battlestar Galactica (which along with Charlie Jade is one of my current favourite shows), but Dynamite are all geared up for the first issue of the comic version of the new Battlestar Galactica; according to some comics news sites they have [...]

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Blood

19. May 2006

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According to Variety Bill Kong, the producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is working with director Ronny Yu to produce a live action version of Blood: the Last Vampire.

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Smallville yes, Aquaman no

18. May 2006

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In a good news-bad news tale Smallvile has had a sixth series announced, so it will be coming back to our screens. The Smallville spin-off featuring Aquaman, Mercy Reef, is not being picked up however.

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Slave Leia

18. May 2006

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The image of Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia in her slave-girl metal bikini in Return of the Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy is one which has entered both fan legend and many a fan fantasy – even Friends paid tribute to the power of Leia in the bikini. Kotobukiya are now producing a detailed [...]

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More Gaiman movie news

18. May 2006

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Variety reports that Focus Features (part of NBC Universal) has picked up the world distribution rights at this year’s Cannes Festival for the stop-motion film based on Neil Gaiman’s excellent younger reader’s book, Coraline (which had some delighfully ghoulish and disturbing moments in it, not least the Other Mother with her button eyes). Mike Cachuela [...]

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Storm’s wedding – the dress

18. May 2006

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I mentioned some time back that one of the big events for Marvel this summer would take the form not of some huge epic, universe-altering story told across every character’s comic but something a little more romantic (although just as world-changing for those involved): the marriage of X-Men’s Storm and the Black Panther. The ceremony [...]

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What the Author Says – FAB!

17. May 2006

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Anthony Taylor, author of the The Future Was FAB- the Art of Mike Trim, which I mentioned the other day, has kindly written about why he wrote the book for our What The Author Says feature: “Gaijin Otaku. In Japanese, these words mean “Outlander,” and “Superfanatic,” respectively. Growing up as a fan of Gerry and [...]

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Half Dead

17. May 2006

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The sad demise of independent comics company Speakeasy has left a lot of comics creators looking for a new home for their publications. British-based artist Jimmy Bott talked to me last year about an upcoming and very cool-sounding horror tale involving a struggle against vampires in London (it sounded like it had shades of the [...]

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Triffids in art

16. May 2006

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The Alien Online draws my attention to an interesting-sounding art exhibition which takes the theme of England during the events in Wynhdham’s classic Day of the Triffids (hopefully without adding in TV gardner Alan Titchmarsh battling the errant plants). The work is by Christopher Campbell and is currently running in Start Space in sunny Shoredtich [...]

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