Star Wars: Death Troopers is a 2009 novel by Joe Schreiber. The plot follows the drama when Purge – an Imperial prison barge – breaks down in a remote part of space. It holds 500 dangerous killers, rebels and thiefs and hope may be in the form of the apparently abandoned Star Destroyer they find […]
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The Dark Knight meets the Starry Night: Dark Starry Knight
The Van Sauron picture was pretty popular. Van Gogh and Lord of the Rings makes for a good combo. What about Batman and Van Gogh? Can we return to this famous painting with the Dark Starry Knight? With James Hance‘s impressive geek art – we certainly can. Check it.
The fantastic art of Chris Foss
Chris Foss’ hardback of his SF art became available in July. At the time of blogging Amazon UK has sold out. That’s an impressive book! Aliens is one of the projects that helped earn Foss his reputation. With the combination of the 25th anniversary of Aliens, Sigourney Weaver hinting she rather likes the idea of […]
Batman: Hush Unwrapped Deluxe Edition review with art
At the end of the month a special edition of Batman: Hush becomes available. This is an impressive publication of one of the great Batman stories. Written by Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween) and drawn by Jim Lee in his stunning pencil work, Batman: Hush has to battle with an unknown enemy who seems […]
Holy Terror trailer
Holy Terror is a new line from Frank Miller. This graphic novel was announced back in 2006 and now, in 2011, it’s finally out via Legendary Comics. The original concept for this novel was called “Holy Terror, Batman!” and had the dark knight defending Gotham City from Al-Qaeda. Even Miller summarised the piece as propaganda. […]
Titan brings Avatar Press’ comic book range to the UK
William A. Christensen founded indie Avatar Press in 1996. The company now looks after the likes of George R.R. Martin, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, David Lapham, Christos Gage and many more. Titan Books has signed a deal that will allow them to distribute Avatar’s titles in the UK. It’s expected that up to […]
Live feed from Comic-Con: the web cam view
I’m not at Comic-Con this year. By which I mean I’m not at Comic Con 2011 the international running from 21st July to 24th. Fat chance as that particular Comic Con is in the brave new world. I missed my neighbouring city Comic Con in Glasgow Scotland and won’t make MCM Expo’s Manchester Comic Con […]
John Dies At the End review
This is a happy story. David Wong had a dull and hard data entry job. When that finished he’d go to his other dull and hard data entry job. Somehow he found time to pull together some thoughts for publication on the web. A few people read these words in the first year. That’s the […]
Lost Fleet: Dauntless review
It’s rare – but sometimes being late can be an advantage. I’m late to Jack Campbell’s “Lost Fleet” series. I’m so late that Titan Books are now publishing enhanced copies of the original series. My copy of Lost Fleet: Dauntless has extra material in it. I liked Dauntless a lot. This example may illustrate precisely […]
