One of the greatest moments of any comic convention is turning a corner and bumping into the person who created something you love. That jaw-dropping moment where you blink and say: “It’s you! You made that awesome thing! And you’re right here!” And that’s exactly what happened at San Diego Comic-Con when I dodged a
We thought three hours of Preview Night would be plenty of time to get this year’s toy offerings photographed. Boy, were we wrong! We barely scratched the surface. This is the quickest of looks at a tiny portion of the toys, statues, figures, and other random goodness to be found at Comic-Con 2013.
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Comic-Con 2013 begins tomorrow! And as if that wasn’t enough, tomorrow is also the premiere of the highly-anticipated fan-made web series Young Justice: Abduction. Join our heroes and heroine and their special guest, writer and actor Colin Bass, as they talk about
If you had given me The Ocean at the End of the Lane with no cover or title page, without telling me anything about it at all, I’d still know it was a Neil Gaiman story. Out of all my favorite authors, Gaiman has the most comfortable, clever, and satisfying style of writing.
After the bigger-than-life superheroes of Avengers, the vampires of Buffy, and the spaceships of Firefly, it’s definitely a head-trip to watch a Joss Whedon movie about a 400 year old play. But it’s a good head-trip, one that you need to go experience. Yes, I know it’s Shakespeare. You’ll like it. And you’ll understand it, I promise.
I don’t want to run a halfway decent idea into the ground, but I had so much fun with the “Ten Books, A Thousand Pages” project (Part One is here, and Part Two here) that I had to do it again. So I present The Return of Ten Books, A Thousand Pages, wherein I pick
Doctor Who returned to the BBC this past Saturday with a brand new episode, The Bells of Saint John, and a brand new companion, Clara, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. Last week the BBC held a press conference with writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, to answer questions about Doctor Who in general and this new
I had high hopes for Tracy Hickman’s Wayne of Gotham, but it never grabbed my attention. When I look at everything I was reading, or watching while I was trying to read this book, I don’t think it ever had a chance.
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, toward beauty. Vogon ships did not nod toward beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley. I really wanted to like And Another Thing, Eoin Colfer’s sequel to the late Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series. In the end, however, I can