Ostrander Auction: pencilled cover to ‘Star Wars: Rebellion’ #8 by Luke Ross

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby have been the gold standard for partnerships in the comic book field. Their work ethic, their creations, and their longevity speak volumes about the duo and speaking of volumes, they are likely the only ones to get DC and Marvel to allow stories from their archives to share two covers,…
We have probably reached the saturation point of fiction in film and prose about the Holocaust. While it remains an intensely personal tragedy for those connected with it, dramas about those horrific years have all begun to gain a sameness. Dark, moody, sad and when well done, incredibly affecting. That was certainly the way I…
Red’s Planet Book 1 By Eddie Pittman Amulet, 192 pages, $19.95/9.95 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but there appear to some things that are universally acclaimed, so science fiction is rife with aliens that like to collect things. Add to the growing list the Aquilari, who ply the spaceways in their flying…
This time, it definitely is the end. The previous volume finished up reprinting the fifty-year [1] run of Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts in twenty-five volumes, two years in each book. (See my posts on nearly all of those books: 1957-1958 , 1959-1960 , 1961-1962 , 1963-1964 , 1965-1966 , 1967-1968, 1969-1970 , 1971-1972 ,…
Go see Baby Driver. If you saw the trailer and thought it looked cool, it is all that and more and you should go see it. If you saw the trailer and thought it looked bad go see it, the trailer only scratches the surface of the depth the movie has. If you love Edgar…
Some things we now know about the Doctor thanks to Eoin Colfer, writer of the Artemis Fowl books: The Doctor hates Blakes 7. The Doctor has lost a hand before. The Doctor’s first stop on Earth was not 1963. Colfer’s e-book, A Big Hand for the Doctor, is the first of eleven monthly releases, each…