Hi, there. I’m not Michael Davis. I’m his editor. Yeah, that’s not a good sign, is it? Here’s the deal. Michael wrote the first part of his latest life-shattering saga Why Does Michael Davis Still Read Comics? We ran that last week; if you doubt me, click on the link. Then, according to Michael, he…
Martinez has been writing humorous SF novels for close to a decade now, all of which have looked like fun to me, but Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain is the first one I managed to actually read. It’s the SFnal story of a world-conquering squid from Neptune (a super-genius squid from Neptune) in a…
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? By Brian Fies 208 pages, $14.95, Abrams ComicArts The future never turns out like people predict. Nostradamus was wrong. Authors, philosophers, painters, and clergy have all been wrong about what the world of tomorrow will turn out to be. Depending upon when you were born and where you…
Daaaaaamn. This is what you can do in your spare time with off the shelf technology nowadays? Michael Habjan created this on an Intel i7-990X hex core 24 GB RAM, and and i7-920 quad core 12 GB RAM over eight months… and made me miss Christopher Reeve even more, with the disturbing realization that if…
According to Pew Research, one out of every five adult Americans now owns a tablet or an e-book reader. That was before Apple announced its new e-textbook initiative. Imagine buying all your college textbooks for about a hundred bucks and then carrying them around in a 1.33 pound device. You’ll never need your locker again….
Publication Date: Oct 27 2011 ISBN/EAN13: 1466481900 / 9781466481909 Page Count: 184 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6″ x 9″ Language: English Color: Black and White Related Categories: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Short Stories The hard-boiled private eye genre is one I dearly love. The trench-coated shamus with a cigarette dangling…
The story goes that in Stamford CT, so many people walked out of Tree of Life and demanded their money back that the management had to post a sign explaining the movie was not your traditional story and that no more refunds would be issued. On the one hand, it says people pick movies indiscriminately…
Once upon a time I edited a magazine called Comics Scene and early on, I had the opportunity to be in Ireland where I was invited to visit animator Don Bluth and his operation. At the time, he had left Disney and was busily working on The Secret of NIMH but also interactive animated arcade…
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) announced the first-ever “social series” from a Hollywood studio will debut on Facebook starting October 18. Consumers can now become part of the show by seamlessly integrating their profile information – including photos, text and friends – by simply opting into the application on the show’s Facebook page. The action…
We love cool, new technology, as much as the next guy. But when the technology comes from Lucasfilm, where so much movie magic has been conjured up since 1977, it caught our attention. This press release just arrived: VANCOUVER, B.C. – August 9, 2011 – Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony…
We’re getting sick and tired of Twitter Tools, the WordPress plug-in from CrowdFavorite. Specifically, because their product is supposed to automatically create one daily post from all the tweets from our account. One daily post. Not thirty-eight, as happened last night; nor the numerous other nights they’ve created multiple posts that have gone out, pushed…
Amazon.com Will Sell Kindle Digital Reader With Ads for $114 http://ow.ly/4yb7g And the prices keep dropping… #
