Now that people have absorbed all the sneak peek hoopla from Comic-Con International, Disney comes through with several new trailers. Yesterday it was The Muppets, today it’s Thor: The Dark World, opening in November. It’s more Loki-centric, playing off Tom Hiddleston’s newfound popularity and there’s one great moment with Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster resonating back…
Leigh Lahav wonders what all the fuss was at San Diego about Tom Hiddleston showing up… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwQD73OaEI And if you’re wondering what all the fuss was about yourself, here’s what happened: He has an army…
New Pulp Author Barry Reese compiles a list of the Top 10 new New Pulp best selling books on Amazon every Monday morning. See how your favorite pulp books fare each week at http://barryreese.net. Without further ado, here’s the completely and totally unofficial New Pulp bestseller list as of right now (title, then publisher, then…
New York, N.Y. (September 25, 2012) –Captain Action Enterprises is proud to announce a New York Comic Con convention-only offer: fans and collectors receive free comics with every Captain Action toy purchase. These comics include comics showcasing characters featured in the toy sets, including Spider-Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Thor, Loki, and Captain Action. And the…
ABC has ordered a pilot for S.H.I.E.L.D, a live-action series from The Avengers writer-director Joss Whedon, Marvel TV and ABC Studios. The project is based on Marvel’s peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D (which stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate or Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) found in both the Marvel comic book and…
SOUTH BEND, Indiana – 12/06/2011 – Round 2 and Captain Action Enterprises are pleased to announce the addition of Captain Action’s long-time nemesis Dr. Evil to the 2012 Captain Action toy line. Captain Action, the popular super hero toy from the 1960s returns to toy shelves with new costume sets, including Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, Thor…
From the beginning in Journey into Mystery, Thor’s arch enemy has been his foster brother Loki, which Stan Lee lifted directly from the Norse myths. Loki, god of mischief, was an infant when Odin slew his father and took the child to raise as his own. Much of the Norse mythology tells stories of Loki’s…
dochermes In November 1993, the last of Will Murray’s new Doc Savage novels, THE FORGOTTEN REALM, was published. I wrote in a review a dozen years later, “It has been twelve years since THE FORGOTTEN REALM was published. Right now, it looks like we will not see a new Doc Savage novel on the stands…
As long as we’re in the spirit of mischief, here’s a bit from the God of Mischief and his loudmouth brother. In this new video clip from the upcoming THOR: TALES OF ASGARD, Loki plays a prank on the wolf Fenris in the Port Hole Pub while Thor and the Warriors Three look on. THOR:…
ESCAPE FROM LOKIWritten by Philip Jose FarmerBantam Books0-553-29093-2 This novel has interested me for years. PJF writing the story of a 16-year old Doc Savage, telling how he met the men would become his aides in his war on crime? How could you go wrong? And yet, I’d heard many complaints over the years —…
All Pulp’s Van Allen Plexico interview AP: Tell us a little about yourself and your pulp interests. VP: I’m a college professor living in southern Illinois but originally from Alabama. I’ve been writing and editing professionally for about six years, but I’ve been writing stories as far back as before kindergarten. For as long as…
Win Scott Eckert © 2005-2010Farmerphile no.2Christopher Paul Carey and Paul Spiteri, eds., Michael Croteau, publisher, October 2005 “Six Degrees of Philip José Farmer”By Win Scott Eckert Last column we discussed the great genealogist Philip José Farmer’s discovery of the “Wold Newton Family,” – highly influential people, many heroic, and some villainous, whose lives are chronicled…
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