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Tarzan Celebrates His 100th Birthday at Comic Con (NSFW)
Never has a century-old man looked so good. Not only did all 130,000 plus Comic Con attendees carry a classic Joe Jusko illustration of the buff Ape-Man around with them all weekend — it was the cover...
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Reminder: Tor.com’s 4th Birthday Party in Two Weeks!
For those of you lamenting August and its lack of excitement, Stubby will deliver you from boredom! Tor.com is having a 4th birthday meet-up, and we want you to be there! (Especially you.)The details:...
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Morning Roundup: Adam West Gets Rid of Christian Bale’s Bomb
We’d always wondered if The Dark Knight Rises was going to contain any actual homages to the real Batman: Adam West. Finally, some proof. We saw this over on Bleeding Cool from Daniel Heard.The rest of...
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[Insert Werewolf Pun Here]: Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan is a hard man to pin down. His work never quite fits any one given genre or literary style. Ostensibly, Talulla Rising is fantasy shellacked with horror, but it really has more in common...
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The Hero Gotham Deserves: Is Batman Good for Gotham City?
A lot of descriptions have been given to Gotham’s bat-shaped protector over the years: the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, or Batsy if you were to ask a certain Joker. At the end of The Dark Knight,...
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None of Einstein’s Theories Could Explain His Marionette
Well, more accurately they couldn’t explain why he had one. Snark aside, the puppet was part of a 1931 show by the Yale Puppeteers, who came to perform at the Teatro Torito in Los Angeles. Einstein...
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Is There a Kermit the Frog Park in Queens?
Scouting NY recently discovered a park in the Parker Towers housing development in Forest Hills, Queens, that appears to be in the shape of Kermit the Frog! There’s no confirmation, but the...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Prologue
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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Which of These Insane Sci-Fi Things Will Actually Happen at the Olympics?
Someone in control of the 2012 Olympics in London has almost certainly gone rogue and is throwing every British science fiction/fantasy element they can into the opening and closing ceremonies. Matt...
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First Trailer for Life of Pi Includes Lots of Fantastic Imagery
The first trailer for Ang Lee’s movie adaptation of Life of Pi has been released. The dialogue-less trailer depicts a lot of Pi’s fantastical time at sea, from the mysterious algae island he finds to...
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Five Possible Reasons that The Hobbit is Spilling Over into a Third Movie
Okay, we know that The Lord of the Rings movies were long, especially with the extended versions, but Peter Jackson still managed to keep each single book down to a single corresponding film. So why,...
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Stitching Genres: Zack Parsons’s Liminal States
Look, up on the shelf! It’s a western. It’s noir. It’s science fiction. It’s all three, blended together in Zack Parsons’ brilliant novel, Liminal States, and it’s super, man.There are some novels that...
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Anne Hathaway: The Best Catwoman Yet
During the lead-up to the release of The Dark Knight Rises, I was among those bloggers out there speculating on director Christopher Nolan’s casting choices for his Batman sequel. His inclusion of Tom...
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The Joss Whedon SDCC Firefly Talk You Might Have Missed
You already know about (and have probably seen footage from) the Firefly 10th Anniversary panel at SDCC but what you might not know is that shortly after that, there was a Firefly 10th Anniversary...
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Morning Roundup: Sherlock Holmes and the League of Irregular Avengers
Now we want to see the adventures of steampunk Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes! Maybe this could include a time traveling Benedict Cumberbatch for good measure? (Art via Geek Tyrant...
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Messages From Beyond Death: Connie Willis’s Passage
Passage (2001) is a very difficult book for me to write about. I love it, right up until the last page, where it makes me furiously upset.This is the fourth time I’ve read Passage, and apart from my...
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Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural...
There is nothing remotely subtle about The Dark Knight Rises. Everything the characters say and do is designed to inform of us of who and what they are. Batman may be a “complex” character, but he’s...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Gethsemane”
Season 4, Episode 24: “Gethsemane” Original Airdate: May 18, 1997“Gethsemane” is a trick. A sleight-of-hand performed clumsily, a cliffhanger with safety gear firmly in place. By the end of it, Mulder...
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Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick!
Today would have been the 86th birthday of the unparalleled director, Stanley Kubrick. Why not celebrate his timeless science fiction and fantasy films with Danny Bowes’s wonderful series of essays?...
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An Introduction to Forge of Darkness For Readers Old and New Alike
Steven Erikson entered the pantheon of great fantasy writers with his debut Gardens of the Moon. Now he returns with the first novel in a trilogy, Forge of Darkness, that takes place millennia before...
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