Did you do anything for Free Comic Book Day? 1 million fans did; along with 40 publishers. The 2014 event gave away 4.7 million comics from over 2,100 different locations. We’re told that the #FreeComicBookDay and #FCBD trended in the States and there was more than 108,000 tweets from fans. The Free Comic Book Day […]
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Dinosaurs! A review of the Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi
Csotonyi won the Lazendorf PaleoArt prize for his illustrations in 2010 and 2012. He’s both an artist and a scientist. He has a PhD in Microbiology. There’s a lot of reasons to be jealous of his talent but the summary is this – he’s very good. If you’ve Titan Books’ Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest […]
Doctor Who: Comic book trailers
Titan Comics have the license to the Doctor Who comic book series and have released a set of trailers. They’ve two new ranges; ones that feature the Tenth Doctor and the Eleventh Doctor. You’ll be able use Comixology for both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor. Physical copies will also be available from retailers later on […]
How many times did they die? 50 years of X-Men [infographic]
I know. I know. Infographics have to work very much harder to be worth your time and attention these days. I think this one, from Shirts.com does. It uses visuals to help you track when various X-Men first appeared, when they stopped being mentioned (often because they died) and when they appeared again. Professor X, […]
A video tour of Godzilla: The Art of Destruction
The hardback Godzilla – The Art of Destruction from Titan Books is a 168-paged geeky compliment to the newly released Godzilla film. The news today is that a sequel is on the way. Godzilla did well at the box office and this Toho fan gives the movie two thumbs up. Sure, there’s mixed reviews about […]
Competition: Alien – The Official Movie Novelization
Last week the world was saddened to hear about the death of H.R. Giger. The Swiss painter, set designer and sculptor was a visionary responsible for a genre. To many people H.R. Giger might be best known as the man who designed the Xenomorph alien in Alien. This week Geek Native is giving you a […]
Colonisation by zombie: The Exodus Towers
The Exodus Towers is the second book in Jason M. Hough’s The Dire Earth Cycle. The first book, The Darwin Elevator, was a good one and I could see why people found some similarities to Firefly. The Dire Earth Cycle isn’t a space western but it’s a science fiction, set in the near future, after […]
Freda Warrington’s Top Ten supernatural novels for vampire lovers… and weird house fanatics
Freda Warrington is a British author of vampire, fantasy and supernatural novels. Born in Leicester, Warrington has created such favourites as the Blackbird series, the Blood Wine series, Dark Cathedral series, The Jewelfire Trilogy and Aetherial Tales series. The British Fantasy Society have nominated four of her stories for Best Novel awards and Elfland took […]
In Dark Service: Exploring Far-Called with Stephen Hunt
Stephen Hunt is geek of note and respect. He step up SFcrowsnest.org.uk, a hugely popular geek site (Geek Native has envy issues), he is an internet pioneer and his fiction has been so successful he writes full time now. The Times described his Jackelian Novels as “inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels”. Hunt’s […]
A look inside Crafty Games’ Terris: Wrought of Copper
Terris: Wrought of Copper is a supplement for Crafty Games’ Mistborn RPG. The book was written in cooperation with Brandon Sanderson the author of the Mistborn series and the sourcebook is considered an official expansion of the canon of the novels. As a result Terris: Wrought of Copper is intended for players, Narrators and fans […]
