Archive | August, 2006

Amazing Screw-On Head

3. August 2006

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Recently I posted on SciFi putting the pilot of Mike Mignola’s groovy Amazing Screw-On Head up on their site for viewers along with a questionairre to ascertain how well it went down with the audience. I’ve heard from a few folks since that SciFi in the US seem to have blocked the video now for [...]

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New Rani for Doctor Who?

3. August 2006

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Sky’s showbiz column reports on a story in the Sun regarding a possible return for the nasty Time Lady the Rani (previously played by Kate O’Mara) to the new Doctor Who and claims Zoe Lucker of Footballer’s Wives (oh dear) will play her. Since none of this has been confirmed by the almighty Russell T [...]

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Moore talks to the Onion

3. August 2006

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The Onion’s AV Club section has a long and interesting interview with Alan Moore discussing Lost Girls, long-term artistic collaboration, controversy and erotica.

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Rocket pirates

3. August 2006

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We just can’t get away from that pirate theme right now, can we? (says the man with a big pirate-style bandana on his head!). The far-too-talented Warren Ellis describes his new project which aims to create a webcomics collective which will be free to readers and give readers a chance to pick up on new [...]

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Der Messing Mann

3. August 2006

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Some good news to combat the recent bad stuff – the damned fine Neal Asher drops me a line to say that his UK publisher Macmillan has agreed a deal with German publisher Bastei Lubbe to buy his next two books for translation, Polity Agent and Hilldiggers, while Brass Man and Voyage of the Sable [...]

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Emerald City – Juliet’s take

3. August 2006

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The excellent Juliet E McKenna has posted some of her thoughts on the recently announced demise of top SF online ‘zine Emerald City over on her live journal. Being a damned good writer Juliet has summarised it rather well and I find myself agreeing to most of her points. I also share the same sorrow [...]

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Trek’s 40th – Beeb want your dates for timeline

3. August 2006

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The BBC website is aiming to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek this September by creating an illustrated timeline. Rather than the usual presentation though the Beeb’s webelves are asking fans to contact them and suggest important dates and to explain the choices to get their entries included in the finished project – details [...]

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Penultimate Shooting War live

2. August 2006

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Dan Goldman tells me the penultimate part (chapter 10 if your are counting) of the excellent (and due to be an expanded print story, still so chuffed for the guys about that!) Shooting War is now up on Smithmag, including some naughty bits. Dan also says he was rather pleased to draw a certain well-known [...]

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Raimi options Goodkind

2. August 2006

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Evil Dead and Spider-Man helmer Sam Raimi has succeeded where many in Hollywood have failed, by persuading best-selling fantasy author Terry Goodkind to let him option his Sword of Truth series of incredibly popular novels. According to SFX Goodkind was happy with the approach and the idea of a mini-series rather than an attempt to [...]

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Trek auction

2. August 2006

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The BBC has pictures of some of the Star Trek items being exhibited in Christie’s of London before an October auction in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of the show. Rumours that William Shatner’s hair-care specialist would spill the beans in time for the anniversary are so far unconfirmed. The items range from hand-props [...]

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Star Wars fan film

2. August 2006

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Following on from the Star Trek fan film I mentioned here recently, Jessica at the  SF Crowsnest has news of an Edmonton fan in Canada who is shooting his own Star Wars fan film, filling in gaps in events and characters which lead up to the original A New Hope movie. Mark Twitchell aims to [...]

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New Clute site updated

2. August 2006

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Tom Abba drops me a line to let us all know that John Clute’s new site which I mentioned last week has now been updated with buttons which are no longer just there to impress us but which actually work. It is also a spot to keep up to date with developments on the new [...]

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Todd Hignite talks Comic Art

2. August 2006

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Comic Art is one of the premier publications about comics published anywhere in the world. It has covered all aspects of comics since it commenced from comics beginnings with articles on Rodolphe Toepffer (credited with creating the first ‘graphic novel’ in 1842), EC Comics and superhero art right through to modern creators like Charles Burns [...]

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StarShip Sofa

2. August 2006

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Tony drops me a line to tell me about the StarShip Sofa. That’s SOFA, not to be confused with Starship Trooper – I lost my heart to a starship trooper, but on the sofa I just lost my loose change. StarShip Sofa is a rather cool SF podcast which covers all areas of the genre, [...]

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David Gemmell Book of Rememberance

2. August 2006

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The Alien Online reports that Gareth Wilson who runs the Wolfshead David Gemmel fan site has set up an online book of rememberance. When the book is full he intends to print out the comments from readers and pass it on to David’s family, which is a very nice touch.

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