The Spiderwock Chronicles did awfully well. The books were popular. There was a movie. Sure; it wasn’t Harry Potter but certainly Tony DiTerlizzis is a big name now (if you’ll excuse the joke!). DiTerlizzi’s next series is “The Search for WondLa” and his publishers have put together a teaser trailer for it. Writing in his […]
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The Game of Thrones gives us a new language: Dothraki
James Cameron actually invented the language for the Na’vi to add some reality to Avatar, Star Trek has infamously created a “real” Klingon language and Tolkien loved inventing languages – some of which feature in Lord of the Rings. HBO has announced one more geek language. Now we can enjoy Dothraki. Dothraki is spoken by […]
Deadpool vs the Watchmen
Rorschach and Deadpool! A Nut and a Fool!
Ryan Brown’s Play Dead book trailer
Ryan Brown is best known as a daytime drama actor. He’s appeared on Law & Order, Guiding Light as well as the Young and The Restless. Play Dead is his first book. It’s about zombies. The idea of a zombie football team came to him while quite a few pro-players were being outed as drug […]
David Tennant in How To Train Your Dragon
David Tennant voices the character Spitelout in the forthcoming How To Train Your Dragon movie. The movie’s not out yet – and rumour suggests its quite different from Cressida Cowell‘s book – so we can only speculate on what Spitelout’s roll may be. Some point out that Snoutlout is the main Viking and so Spitelout […]
Mr Men as superheroes and villains
Sometimes if you take awesome and mix that was awesome you get OMG mega-awesome.
I have proof. Take the Mr Men. Take some of your favourite superheroes and villains. Mix the two together and you’ll get superheroes drawn as Mr Men. That’s OMG mega-awesome!
Some teasers below but check out Seven Hundred’s flickr stream for all 82.
D.J. MacHale’s Morpheus Road: The Light trailer
Author of the popular YA series Pendragon series (where Bobby Pendragon, at the age of 14 must save all time and space from demonic evil) and The Monster Princess has a new book ready to go. Morpheus Road: The Light is a tale about a boy called Marshall Searver who is being haunted.
Vampirella finds a new home
Dynamite Entertainment has acquired the rights to Vampirella. The vampire heroine leaves Harris Publications to join the likes of the Green Hornet, Zorro, Armies of Darkness and Red Sonja at Dynamite. As you’d expect of a vampire – Vampirella is quite old. The comic first appeared in 1969 with a black and white cover by […]
Dawn of the Dreadfuls trailer – the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies prequel
Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet? It started off something big. I’ve a copy of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter behind me. So, unless Final Fantasy XIII catches me, there might be a review of that on Geek Native soon. It turns out that we’re not dine with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies […]
Ex-Wizards of the Coast editor starts new Sci-Fi and Fantasy imprint
Stacy Whitman, former editor of Wizards of the Coast’s Young Adult imprint Mirrorstone, has been picked up by Lee & Low. Lee & Low, an independent children’s book publisher, noticed Whitman after a campaign in Kickstarter which raised more than $10,000 (donations which will now be returned) and her blog. Whitman’s new imprint will be […]
