Lots of geeky sites happy with today’s news that Frank Darabont has been giving the go-ahead to film a pilot episode of The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is a well respected comic from Robert Kirkman. It’s one of those smart zombie page-turns that focuses on the human challenges rather than the pesky not-dead-enough bodies. […]
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Neil Gaiman talks about “Fragile Things” for Google
Neil Gaiman has a special place in the hearts and minds of many geeks. It’s perhaps not that much of a surprise to discover he’s been invited to speak at the Googleplex for the great search engine’s engineers. It’s all on YouTube. If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan and have over an hour spare then […]
Macabre Ink pens deal with DriveThuFantasy
David Nail Wilson is a dark fantasy, sci-fi, horror author who has over 150 short stories to his name and novels including Vintage Soul, the Grails Covenant, Sins of the Flash and even Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis and the Lasombra clan novel for Dark Ages Vampire. He has a Bram Stoker award. David’s publishing venture […]
Sexy Spartacus: Blood and Sand comics and trailers have Starz on a roll
The media company Starz are having a good run up to Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I’m not even in the US, am not even sure I’m going to get to see the show and I’m already getting excited about it. Everyone is describing the show as a mashup of Snyder’s 300 and the HBO Rome […]
Ultimate X revealed as a hunter
Marvel have shown us the fourth and final shadow on the Ultimate X cover. That’s all of them now. I don’t have Paul’s brains to pick as to who these re-tooled heroes may be so I’m going to take the suggestions from ComicVine’s G-Man instead. Looks like Ultimate Liz Allen to me. Not much of […]
Dragonlance gets new Diamond deal
Margaret Weis Productions – the people behind Dragonlance, the Serenity RPG (as based on Joss Whedon’s masterpiece), the Supernatural RPG (as based on the TV series) and the Battlestar Galactic RPG (SyFy’s heroic success story) – have signed Diamond Comic Distributors as global, English language, distributors. For books the deal is an exclusive one and […]
R.A. Salvatore gets six more books with Wizards
Wizards of the Coast has issued a press release to announce that they’ve signed R.A.Salvatore on a new six-book deal. No one will be surprised to discover that Drizzt Do’Urden from the D&D Forgotten Realms setting will be in each of the six books. R.A. Slavatore said in the press release; “I’ve always maintained that […]
After the Blackest Night comes the Brightest Day
DC have pulled the curtain aside to let us see what comes after Blackest Night. In a “live blog” interview between The Source’s Alex Segura and Dan DiDio DC reveal that Brightest Day launches in April as a 26-issue biweekly. The interview is on the short side but confirms that Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi […]
Lisa McMann’s Wake
Publishers Simon and Schuster have published a short and simple video trailer for Lisa McMann‘s Wake. It’s the first in a series of three with Fade and Gone following on. “Not all dreams are sweet” is the tagline for the book. It features 17-year old Janie who has the strange ability to get sucked into […]
Who the heck is Ultimate-X?
With a new image from Marvel doing the rounds, we find ourselves wondering who Ultimate-X is. Those claws look awfully Wolverine. As usual, ComicVine does a good job of summing up thoughts; “Could this be Ultimate Daken? Has Wolverine somehow been transformed into a teenager? Could this perhaps be Ultimate X-23?”
