Marvel editor Tom Brevoort posts Mark Millar’s original memo/pitch for Civil War. Comic Book Resources presents the third part of their look at Homosexuality in Comics. Blogcritics reviews a pile of DC and Image comics, starting with Dynamo 5 #3. Blogcritics also has a Marvel comics review, and is particularly fond of Nova #4. Forbidden…
Various torrent sites, and others, have posted what are claimed to be scans of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, implying that either a few copies of the US edition have escaped the strict security measures or that some sneaky hacker has Mad Photoshop Skillz. This has caused just one or two small news stories,…
Comic Book Resources has the second half of their look at Homosexuality in Comics. Brian Cronin at Comics Should Be Good has a new, useful, term for our collective little dictionary of comics: False Epiphany Characters. (Also for that same dictionary, and from the same place: Grace Notes.) Steven Grant gives us a thumbnail history…
It’s a good time to be a comics fan of my age – someone in his thirties who started reading comics in the late 1980s – since there’s been a continuing wave of reprints of the better comics of those days in more permanent form. A lot of things that I hadn’t read in a…
Fantasy Book Critic reviews Warren Ellis’s first novel, Crooked Little Vein. BestSF has reviewed a few magazines this week: A recent issue of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest F&SF’s May 2007 issue Interzone’s issue 210 Don D’Amassa’s Critical Mass has new reviews on the Science Fiction page, including Blake Nelson’s young adult novel They…
Department of “Shoulda Seen That Coming”: in the UK, a government minister issues a stern warning that a particular book, Tintin in the Congo, contains “hideous racial prejudice,” and that no right-thinking Briton should ever, ever read it henceforward. Result? Sales increase immediately by 3,800 percent. (Forbidden Planet International has a longer story on the…
In honor of Daniel Radcliffe’s roving eyes, today here’s a picture of what Emma Watson looks like on a regular movie screen, and what she looks like in IMAX 3-D. Quite a difference, eh? (And if you want to see the photo I almost used here — which is probably not safe for work, and…
Like Ode to Kirihito, this is a major graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and “godfather of manga,” translated and published in English by Vertical Publishing. I won’t repeat the background here, but you click to the earlier review if you like. (I’ll just wait for you to get back.) Apollo’s Song…
Will Eisner is one of the giants of 20th century comics; a figure whom reviewers always say “needs no introduction,” but then gets an extended explanation anyway. I’ll be brief: Eisner founded what became a major packaging studio in 1936, at the very beginning of the comic-book business, then launched the unique Spirit newspaper insert…
Time magazine, which manages to get so much wrong so much of the time, oddly is very accurate and interesting on the subject of LOLcats. [via The Beat] Not science fiction, but only because it didn’t happen: the British military is denying sending giant, man-eating badgers to terrify the citizen of the Iraqi city of…
Beaucoup Kevin thinks this (to your right) is the greatest comics panel of all time. (It’s possible…after all, malt does more than Milton can to justify Kirby’s ways to man.) The Beat reports that Too Much Coffee Man will be debuting in a new form at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con: as an opera. Todd…
The Agony Column reviews Ibrahim S. Amin’s The Monster Hunter’s Handbook. Fantasybookspot reviews David Bilsborough’s first novel, the epic fantasy The Wanderer’s Tale. Fantasybookspot also reviews Julie E. Czerneda’s Survival. SFF World reviews The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. SciFi UK Review also covers the June issue of Hub magazine. Strange Horizons reviews Scarlet…
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