It might be cool to be Mark Millar right now. It might be very cool to be Mark Miller given that the Kick-Ass movie is about to come out and it looks like it’ll rock. But all is not well in the Millar world. Bleeding Cool is reporting that DC Comics are taking legal action […]
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The rush to wait for Graphic.ly (@graphicly)
Graphic.ly looks like it’s about to explode with potential. Right now (ie today; 4th of Jan, 2010) if you rush over and sign up for the beta using the code ‘TECHCRUNCH’ you might get jumped to the top of the waiting list for beta access. First off; Graphic.ly simply looks awesome. Secondly; it’ll run on […]
Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trailer
Scott Westerfeld is perhaps best known for his book “Uglies” but this trialer for Leviathan caught my eye. The book’s out now in hardback and ebook and will be out in paperback late in 2010. Leviathan features a war between the machine building Austro-Hungarian and German empires (the Clankers) against the British Darwinists who grow […]
The 2009 Broken Frontier Awards
Comic site Broken Frontier have announced the winners of their sixth annual awards. The award process tooks votes from fans and professionals to select winners from BF compiled shortlists. Best Writer: Mainstream Geoff Johns Best Writer: Independent Terry Moore Best Artist: Mainstream Steve McNiven Best Artist: Independent Gabriel Ba Best Publisher Dark Horse Best Ongoing […]
Mondo Comico in the press and on the web
Kudos to Mondo Comico. The Nottingham gaming and comic shop made the news today with a feature in This Is Nottingham. Rather than endure the standard press poking fun at roleplaying and the Simpson’s fed ‘Comic Guy’ stereotype Mondo Comico walked away from the encounter smelling of roses. The hero of our story is David […]
Wow. The PSP gets a comic store
At first I thought I was going to be annoyed – that the US was getting a comic store for the PSP and that here the UK we’d get nothing. In fact, the comic store launches in the US today but should be in the UK very soon. Tomorrow at 5pm, I hear. The only […]
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne’s coming back. Did anyone really expect anything else?
Justice League – Crisis on Two Earths
The heroes of the Justice League go against their mirror-universe counterparts, the Crime Syndicate on a world where evil always wins.
Gossip Girl goes all Manga
Yen Press has announced that it has secured the rights to do a mange re-imagination of the hugely popular Gossip Girl series. Cecily von Ziegesar’s series follows the lives of girls at an posh private school in New York City and the HyeKyung Baek adaption will focus on Blair and Vanessa from the senior year. […]
Caroline Dunford reads from A Death In The Family
In this clip author Caroline Dunford reads from the first in the Euphemia Martins Mystery series and picks up where young Euphemia is trying to explain to the police how she happened to find a body… and throws the light of suspicion on herself. I’ve read A Death in the Family myself and recommend it!
