I am, as I have previously noted, a big fan of Jim Butcher’s long-running series about the modern-day wizard Harry Dresden, a.k.a. The Dresden Files. The stories and characters are great fun and the books just keep getting better, and more complex, and deeper overall. If you haven’t encountered the series before, I highly recommend…
Versatile actor Lou Diamond Phillips talks about they new season of the A&E drama, LONGMIRE, and how his character is in the center of the action plus more with Will Wheaton including a look at just when being a “geek” became cool. Meanwhile, from JONAH HEX to Thanos, Josh Brolin grabs another comic book movie…
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of The Dresden Files, so it was awesome to get to sit down and chat with author Jim Butcher about the series while at Dragon Con last weekend! The Dresden Files, as you may know, is a series about the wizard Harry Dresden, and follows his adventures and…
Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Storm Front Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm Adaptation by Mark Powers; Illustrated by Ardian Syaf Del Rey, June 2009, $22.95 It’s never a good sign when anything gets named “[[[The Gathering Storm]]]” – that’s possibly the most generic title in a world filled with blandness and non-specificity. I suppose it’s…
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle Written by Jim Butcher; Pencils by Adrian Syaf Del Rey, October 2008, $19.95 Jim Butcher’s [[[Dresden Files]]] series is something of an anomaly in the world of contemporary fantasy – a hugely successful, bestselling series of novels set in the modern world, featuring vampires, werewolves, elves, and other…
James Marsters has quite the fan following as an actor but also an equally loyal following as a reader of audio books. The latter fans will be delighted to know that he has signed on to read the remaining six Harry Dresden novels by Jim Butcher. These titles include Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat,…
I’m a big fan of The Dresden Files. Which is why I can’t take The Dresden Files. Maybe I should explain. About a year ago or so I picked up a novel by Jim Butcher about a wizard-for-hire working out of modern day Chicago. It meshes the hard-boiled detective genre with the wizard and fantasy…
