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Before Watchmen Rehashes a Comic Masterpiece. Is It Working?
It wasn’t long ago that DC Comics put out the announcement that they’d be creating a line of comics as preludes to Alan Moore’s graphic novel tour de force, Watchmen. Twenty-six years after it’s...
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The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Transfers Assets to the Society of...
Attention! This was just announced in a press release from the Society of Illustrators office:The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) and the Society of Illustrators have announced plans for MoCCA...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Chapter Three
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Part 29
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 29 of A...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Outcast”
“The Outcast”Written by Jeri TaylorDirected by Robert ScheererSeason 5, Episode 17Production episode 40275-217Original air date: March 16, 1992Stardate: 45614.6Captain’s Log: The J’Naii—an androgynous...
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Gaming Roundup: The Ramifications of Windows 8 on PC Gaming and Linux
Windows 8, in all its mobile-revolution promotin’, touch-screen totin’ glory, is due to hit PCs everywhere in late October, and represents a major departure from previous Windows iterations in several...
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“Do you know what she is?” Ilona Andrews’ Gunmetal Magic
In Magic Bites and its sequels, wife and husband writing team Ilona and Andrew Gordon have written an urban fantasy series that’s seen them hit the NYT bestselling list. Kate Daniels, sometime...
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Fiction Affliction: August Releases in Paranormal Romance
Those who love fangs and fur and other iterations of paranormal romance are in for a busy August to close out a slow summer. Eighteen new titles shift and bite and…whatever…this month, including...
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Morning Roundup: The Fashion of Rory Williams and Marty McFly
We’ve loved Arthur Darvill’s line-deliver as Rory on Doctor Who for two whole years and will be very sorry to see him go. But we never noticed that his style is very similar to Marty McFly! Is it...
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Take Heart, Good People of Starbase 13 — Captain Kirk is Bringing You a Mime!...
Imagine there was a story with no limits – no budget, no censors, no rules. Imagine it was about James T. Kirk’s first mission with the Enterprise. Imagine it featured a My Little Pony. Guess what?...
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If the Tenth Doctor Were a My Little Pony
Never has the oncoming storm seemed so huggable! This plush My Little Pony Tenth Doctor (“Doctor Whooves,” for short) was made by New Zealand crafter and aspiring tattoo artist Demelza Salisbury and it...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, “Come...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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The Farrell Identity: Total Recall Forgets to Have Plot Twists
Unsurprisingly, the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” breaks a lot of so-called narrative rules in terms of basic point-of-view structure. Switching harshly from a close...
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Our Favorite Small Moments From the Curiosity Mars Landing
We hope you got a chance last night to experience the thrill of watching the newest Mars rover Curiosity successfully touch down on Martian soil. If not, take a look at the final minutes of its voyage...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: I can heeeearrrr you!
It’s actually rather amazing, in the grand scheme of things, that Buffy gets infectious demon yecch on her person, in her hair, and all over her clothes so very rarely. If her life were a life, and not...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Judgment Day
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics(and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...
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Bloody Tears For Fears. True Blood: “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
There were a lot of bared fangs (and more) on this week’s episode of True Blood. And pigs. As tensions rise across the South, Eric tries to outsmart the Lilith-worhipping Authority, the Shreveport...
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Handsome Covers, Awesome SF: B&N’s “Leatherbound Classics” Series
I was browsing my local Barnes & Noble recently and happened upon a display table of their new, “Leatherbound Classics” library-edition series. They’re stunningly lovely books—but what caught my...
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Other Guests Are Surely Destined To Drop In: The House By The Cemetery
There is genre film and there is, oh heavenly bounty, Italian genre film. Granted, it’s a generalization, but there’s a wonderful tendency to value stylish sensationalism over logic and coherence that...
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Morning Roundup: Look What’s Already Been Spotted By Curiosity
Game over man? Did the xenomorphs just show up on Mars? So that’s where they’ve been hiding. Somebody call Sigourney Weaver and Noomi Rapace right now.(We saw this image over on Blastr)You daily...
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