NYCC 2011 Cosplay: The Biggest %$#@! Hand Cannon I’ve Ever Seen…
…along with Wonder Woman, the Terminator directing traffic, Cobra Commander giving free hugs, the no-so-White Queen, and the cutest little Dalek ever. Let’s take a look, shall we?
The Mix : What are people talking about today?
Crazy Sexy Geeks: Tim Gunn on Star Trek Part 2!
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Tim Gunn joins geeky actress Jennifer Ewing and comic book historian Alan Kistler to continue their discussion on the fashion of Star Trek TOS and the films that followed Kirk and his crew. If you like Crazy Sexy Geeks, listen to our podcast on iTunes and donate via PayPal to SizzlerKistler at gmail dot com. (Read more…)
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MICHAEL DAVIS: Spider-Man, Superman… you messing with my head.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Comics made the mainstream news only with some event regular folk could understand and think was worth going into a comic book store for the first time…ever.
Superman is dead.
Superman gets married. Which is the same thing as being dead.
Spider-Man gets married.
Spider-Man becomes Latino and black.
Spider-Man gets divorced (because he became Latino and black).
Archie kisses a black girl.
Archie is booted out of the Tea Party (you know why).
The news that DC is being kicked out of major bookstore chains because of an exclusive deal they made with Amazon is messing with my head.
That’s not the only thing either, I read an article in Wired magazine recently that stated that iPads could both revolutionize and destroy the industry.
Again. My head is being messed with.
I don’t want to see mainstream media talk about comics unless it’s a new comic book movie, Comic Con or Archie uses the ‘N’ word during a argument with his black girl friend.
Yes, I know I’m being naïve. Yes I know that comics are a business and change is inevitable, yada, yada, whatever. I get that.
But…
I long for a return to the good old days when the press would make a big deal out of The Death Of Superman and regular folk would be naive enough to buy dozens of copies because it never occurred to them that Superman would be back.
“It’s a comic book you moron.” I said to about a zillion people who were shocked that Superman was not dead forever so the 50 copies they purchased along with the 50 billion sold would not be so valuable as to put the kids through college.
I remember a “regular folk” about to pay a retailer $40 bucks for two copies of The Death Of Superman at a NY Comic Con when the very same issue was cover priced at a newsstand in the lobby of the Javits Center where the con was being held.
I told the guy about the newsstand price and assured him they still had plenty of copies left. He thanked me like I just handed him a winning lottery ticket. Man, was he happy!
The retailer, not so much.
Yes, mainstream press, give me that kind of comic book news and keep your gloom and doom for what you do best: Lindsey Lohan.
WEDNESDAY: Mike Gold
Two Links That Add Up To a Picture I Can’t Quite See
Perhaps someone more plugged into this particular format war can comment, but, for myself, I’ll just mention the two things that happened over the last week in the world of ebook formats.
First, EPUB 3.0, the next generation of the format used by most electronic reading devices, was officially made a Recommended Specification at the Frankfurt Book Fair by the IDPF.
A few days later, Amazon — which is the sole user of their proprietary, competing format, derived from a format invented by Mobipocket — announced a new generation Kindle format for their devices, without mentioning EPUB or the growing global standard.
There had been chatter that Amazon was going to converge to EPUB — or, at least, allow EPUB files to be read on Kindle devices — sometime late this year or next, but, from this evidence, that does not seem to be coming any time soon.
Mark Maddox covers The Thing!
Pulp Artist Mark Maddox has been named cover illustrator for HorrorHound Magazine issue #31, which is currently available on newsstands and bookstores everywhere. The cover art by Mark Maddox features images from the 1982 version of The Thing.
Mark’s illustrations have appeared on multiple books and magazines including Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Captain Hazard, The Heap, That Man Flint, Undying Monsters, Lance Star: Sky Ranger, Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine, Mad Scientist magazine, Hammer Fantasy & Sci-Fi for Hemlock Books, The Last Bus To Bray: The Unfilmed Hammer, the first volumes in Don Glut’s New Adventures Of Frankenstein series, and more.
For more on Mark Maddox and his art, visit http://maddoxplanet.com.
Click on artwork for a larger view.
NEW OPAR OMNIBUS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
The day is finally here! The new Opar omnibus from Subterranean Press, which includes the never-before-published novel THE SONG OF KWASIN, has finally been announced, and you can preorder it here:
Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa
by Philip Jose Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey
(preorder—to be published in April 2012)
Dust jacket by Bob Eggleton.
Limited: $65
Trade: $45
ISBN: 978-1-59606-471-3
Length: 576 pages
Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa collects for the first time anywhere Philip José Farmer’s epic Khokarsa cycle, including the never-before-published conclusion to the trilogy, The Song of Kwasin.
In Hadon of Ancient Opar, the young hero Hadon journeys from his outpost city to the heart of the ancient African empire of Khokarsa, battling in the Great Games for the chance to win the king’s crown. But just as Hadon stands upon the precipice of victory, the tyrannical King Minruth usurps the throne and
overturns the beneficent, centuries-old rule of the priestesses of Kho. Now Hadon must set out upon a hero’s journey unlike any other—to hunt down a living god and return with his bounty. The saga continues in Flight to Opar, as a decree by the oracle hurtles Hadon upon a perilous quest that will determine the fate of the next twelve millennia. In The Song of Kwasin, Hadon’s herculean cousin returns to Khokarsa after long years of exile in the Wild Lands. But soon Kwasin finds that in order to clear his name he will have to take up the cause against King Minruth himself and stop him before he fulfills his mad quest for immortality high atop the sun god’s bloody ziggurat.
Limited: 250 signed (by Carey) numbered copies, with an additional section of exclusive material
Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Christopher Paul Carey
Hadon of Ancient Opar
Flight to Opar
The Song of Kwasin (with Christopher Paul Carey)
Exclusive to the Limited Edition:
The Song of Kwasin Outline
The Khokarsan Language
Khokarsan Glossary
The Khokarsan Calendar
The Plants of Khokarsa
Just in time for Halloween…
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Martin Powell’s The Halloween Legion (Book One) is now available for just $12.95 from Wild Cat Books. You can order The Halloween Legion at http://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Legion-1-Martin-Powell/dp/0983953201/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319484334&sr=1-2
The printed edition features five interior illustrations by artist Danny Kelly.
“Many thanks to Ron Hanna and Wild Cat Books for allowing my little group of weirdos to finally be born–and in time for Halloween!” Powell said on his blog.
The Halloween Legion © Martin Powell.
Cover and Interior Illustrations by Danny Kelly.
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Graphic Design by William Carney.
Logo by Ver Curtiss.
Published by Wild Cat Books.
To learn more about author Martin Powell, visit http://martinpowell221bcom.blogspot.com/
To learn more about Wild Cat Books, visit http://www.wildcatbooks.net/
You can order The Halloween Legion at http://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Legion-1-Martin-Powell/dp/0983953201/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319484334&sr=1-2
What Was It Like Working For “The Incredible Hulk”?
With the imminent return of The Incredible Hulk to television (currently being developed for ABC and spinning out of the Avengers movie next summer) it’s illuminating to go back and take a look at how the original TV series was made. Allan Cole (perhaps better known as the co-author of the [[[Sten]]]novels) was a writer for the series, and he’s been reminiscing…
To understand The Incredible Hulk you have to first know that everybody on the show was nuts. Some were nice nuts. A few, not so nice. And others bounced back and forth like green balls of silly putty with no notice whatsoever.
It also helps to understand that the very premise of the show was schizoid, with this wimpy little doctor-type guy (played by Bill Bixby) transforming into a big green monster (played by Lou Ferrigno) when somebody kicks sand in his face and pisses him off.
Put another way, scripting for the Incredible Hulk was like writing for Kabuki theater. As Chris said, “one frigging thing out of place and everybody and everything goes apeshit.”
The writing experience could be frustrating, agonizing and drive you just plain bonkers. On the other hand, of the hundred and fifty odd shows Chris and I worked on, it was one of the most fun and satisfying. Once you got the formula down pat, you could write just about anything you wanted. More importantly, what you wrote went on the screen, so you didn’t hesitate to open up and address broader themes than one might expect in a show about a comic book character.
via MY HOLLYWOOD MISADVENTURES: IT AIN’T EASY BEIN’ GREEN – JUST ASK THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
NYCC 2011 Cosplay, Part 2: White Queen vs. Dark Phoenix, Catwoman, Dr. McNinja, and Two-Face
Still churning through some great photographs, although sadly my photos of Banana-Wolverine didn’t come out at all (just for the caption “In Canada, banana slices you! </yakovsmirnoff>”) but luckily, ComicsAlliance caught him.
But we have photos of everything else, from Astro Boy to Avengers, from Slave Leia (of course) to the littlest Sinestro, and Optimus Primes both large and sub-Optimus… let’s take a look!
The Point Radio: 24’s Chloe Returns & Starbuck Talks BSG
After years of backing up Jack Bauer on 24, Mary Lynn Rajskub is back on the web and funny as hell. She tells us all about her new series, plus Katee Sackoff talks about why she isn’t in the POWERS TV series and why she thinks BATTLESTAR went out the right way.
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