Okay, this is pretty mindblowing – 56 episodes, some two seasons’ worth, of the original Star Trek all running at the same time. What is a little alarming is just how many of them I can recognise from only a few seconds of video in those tiny little windows. This has nothing to do with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 16, 2012
This is perhaps a bit out of date, as it was recorded at last summer’s Comic-Con, but on the other hand we’re happy to have any excuse to see Karen Gillan and Matt Smith talking, so here we go: BBC Doctor Who Comic-Con panel from Stacy Tiderington on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The shortlist nominees for the prestigious science fiction and fantasy Hugo Awards have been announced, taking in novels, short stories, film, television and comics tales from the SF&F genre. Let’s have a look at the main longform prose contenders, which includes China Miéville’s fascinating Embassytown and Mira Grant’s excellent Deadline: Best Novel Among Others by [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 23, 2012
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Paul Harrison-Davies offers up a warm slice of colourful nostalgia for those of us of a certain age with his fabbity fab Rentaghost artwork. And to complete the nostalgic flashbacks why not indulge in that theme tune again too?
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Well while we are still left with only teasing, small nuggets about the fate of Rory and Amy (sigh) in the next season of Doctor Who (will they simply leave or, as is hinted, will something bad happen to one or both of them?), the BBC has officially announced who the next Doctor Who companion [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 12, 2012
Over the weekend we had the sad news of the passing of the absolutely legendary artist, designer and comics master Moebius (see Richard’s post here); André Oliveira has posted up the full documentary seen on BBC4, Moebius: a Life in Pictures online, including contributions from figures like Stan Lee, Jodorowsky and more. Noting the BBC [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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It’s a Leap Year, we have this extra day today of February 29th and as good geeks we all know what that means: this is the day we commemorate the work of Doctor Sam Beckett, who leapt from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, always hoping the next leap would [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organisation has announced the shortlist for the 2011 Nebula Awards; the contenders for this prestigious SF&F award this year are: Novel Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor) Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press) Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books) God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books) [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 15, 2012
In a departure from comics, I have been considerably enthused by the release of a webisode of ‘Victory‘. An Irish Science Fiction series, funded by our national broadcaster, RTE, is and was unthinkable. I grew up loving Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Gerry Anderson, but there was always a dearth of SF from Ireland, in many [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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This is fab and Sillysparowness is so enthusiastic about it and so darned smiley you’ll find yourself grinning too as she describes just how she set about building her own TARDIS, because a girl just isn’t complete without her own TARDIS, is she? (via BoingBoing)
Continue reading...Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Ambling contentedly around the virtual environs of Deviant Art the other day I came across Chesheyre’s page and really admired the Firefly/Serenity artwork, like this tribute to the ladies from Joss Whedon’s far too short-lived series: And I loved Chesheyre’s “Come Fly With Me” poster with a grinning Kaylee astride a Firefly class ship. Ah, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 19, 2012
(Simpsons (c) Fox) For some unknown reason I had a song from the Simpsons stuck in my head all day yesterday – Mister Burns singing “see my vest” (in a pastiche of a classic musical scene whose name escapes me at the moment) as he shows off his wardrobe full of handmade garments fashioned from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 10, 2012
This final guest Best of the Year selection comes from commentator, reviewer and writer Maura McHugh, who has been impressing us with some of her own comics series this year: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Maura: [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 26, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year choices come from writer, Zarjaz man and Hi-Ex comic con co-founder and organiser, that wild comics man of the far north, Richmond Clements: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Rich: Long [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The TARDIS Newsroom blog has spotted this fab, easy to read graphical timeline for the decades of Doctor Who – really nice, simple, clear layout, pretty cool little resource that someone (anyone know who it was?) has put some thought into (tip of the hat to Peacock Pete for the link):
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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