This post discusses Clara Oswald. We think she’ll be the 11th Doctor’s next companion. There are no spoilers in this post, not unless you’ve not yet watched Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen, but there is lots of speculation. Some Clara Oswin Oswald factoids for you; On Clara’s gravestone her birth date is 23 […]
Will the Great Intelligence and the Yeti appear in the Doctor Who Christmas special?
This post is speculation. I’ve not seen any of the previews of The Snowmen, the 2012 Christmas special, and I’ve no insider knowledge. This post is fanboy froth, mixed with internet research and the chance to show some previously discovered art and pictures. If you’re worried that this speculation might be right and therefore might […]
10 Christmas recommendations from Forbidden Planet
Geek Native reached out to the team at Forbidden Planet with a Christmas plea for insight. Which graphic novels would they recommend? What’s hot? What’s new? What should this blogger buy his geeky friends? The results are in. The Forbidden Planet team put their heads together and came back with these 10 tempting, geeky, recommendations […]
Doctor Who: BBC confirms Neil Gaiman brings Cybermen back for 2013
The BBC have said that Doctor Who will return in 2013 for a run of eight episodes on the Spring. Only 8? The same post confirms that one of the eight episodes will feature Cybermen, will be directed by Stephen Woolfenden and was written by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s earlier Doctor Who episode, The Doctor’s Wife, […]
The Humble eBook Bundle
Pay what you want to take home the Humble eBook Bundle and if you pay more than average then you’ll also get to download Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Signal to Noise as well as John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. For just a single dollar (money gets split between the authors and charity) you could […]
Tales from Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? review
“When Gandalf is vanquished, the text is ‘He fell beyond time and memory’. We puzzled about how you put that on film.” – director John Boorman on his proposed adaptation The Beatles wanted to do a Lord of the Rings movie and John Boorman was the director who was going to wrestle with it. In […]
What do we know about Neil Gaiman’s new Doctor Who episode?
Did you hear what happened during the Hugo Awards Ceremony? It was being streamed live on UStream but mid-way through, just before Neil Gaiman’s speech, UStream’s own automatic copyright police bots cut the stream off. Oops. What happened? The award ceremony had shown some clips of the award winning Doctor Who episode “The Doctor’s Wife” […]
Neil Gaiman to appear on Bendito Machine
Bendito Machine began life as an art project, a short film, about the foolishness of human conflict. It’s now a series about simple people who need their machines to survive and who are governed by idiotic big heads who fail to understand how little they know. I was a backer to a failed KickStarter project […]
Listen to Neil Gaiman announce a new, 25th year, Sandman story
In 2013 Sandman will be 25th years old. Yesterday, for Comic Con, Neil Gaiman gave fans big and somewhat unexpected news – he would write a new Sandman story. But what would the story be about? Find out from Gaiman himself with this video announcement from DC Comics HQ. “When I finished writing THE SANDMAN, […]
Craig Ferguson interviews Neil Gaiman
Right now, at the time of posting, this video can be watched anywhere in the world. It’s a clip from US TV in which Craig Ferguson interviews Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s on because it’s American Gods was 10 years old on the 19th of June. The geeky conversation stretches from Sandman to Doctor Who. There’s plenty […]
