Just in time for Halloween, New Pulp Author James Palmer has released a free tale of a suppressed Halloween and a futuristic fascist dictatorship at http://jamespalmerbooks.com/2012/10/31/free-story-the-halloween-room.
Happy Halloween!
Remember this when some other website hawks the Amazon steal of the day, and then complains about how all the local shops are going away. via Sign Of The Times of the Day – The Daily What.
I suppose we could call this a follow-up or at least sister piece to last week’s column, in which I interviewed the fantastic Cleolinda Jones, author of Movies in Fifteen Minutes, about her experiences with comic book movies. Cleo noted that she tends to be more interested in Marvel characters because “Marvel has been so…
This face sells comics! Move over Messiah Complex, DC now has a hot story line that’s selling out – in fact, THREE titles are long gone this week! Meanwhile, ComicMix Radio gets ready to head to The National Comic Con in NYC and: • We give you the latest preview of the NYC show, including…
Like every other geek, I’ve seen the trailers for the next Star Trek movie, Star Trek Into Darkness. I even saw the extended preview when Mary and I went to see The Hobbit. I’ve seen J.J. Abrams relaunch of the Star Trek franchise and really enjoyed it. I’m a long time Star Trek fan although…
There was a time when it was assumed that people who read comics were not very smart. They couldn’t understand a book without pictures, despite the opinion of Lewis Carroll, as expressed by Alice. This opinion began to lose ground in the 1970s, and by the 1980s, when Art Spiegelman published Maus, some people began…
I’ve mentioned the short story “Snow, Glass, Apples” before – it’s both one of Neil Gaiman’s best, most pointed short pieces and one of the most successful of the Ellen Datlow/Terri Windling-inspired burst of revisionist fairy tales from the early 1990s. (I see that my memory was slightly false – I thought it originally appeared…
