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What science fiction and fantasy funny books will debut during the wee months of 2012? There's new UFO drama from Vertigo, Brian Wood penning Conan The Barbarian, and the X-Men and Avengers gearing up for fisticuffs. Here's a slew of brand new titles coming to comic stores soon.

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We really dug the first issue of DC Comics' new rough-and-tumble fantasy series Demon Knights. Hence, we're psyched to debut an exclusive sneak peek of the second issue. In this preview, Paul Cornell pens Vandal Savage wrestling with scaly fauna. That's a platform I can get behind. More »
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Here's an exclusive first look at "A 'True Story' From Saucer Country" by Action Comics and Doctor Who scribe Paul Cornell and artist Goran Sudzuka. This short story will appear in the resurrection of DC/Vertigo's science fiction anthology Strange Adventures. More »
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How does one write Superman's greatest nemesis (and noted pastry bandit) Lex Luthor? We asked Action Comics author and Doctor Who screenplay scribe Paul Cornell for some advice on how to write the most diabolical villain with the shiniest head. More »
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Comic book Wednesday always delivers the most prescient fashions. Who wouldn't want to sport a dapper Orange Lantern (your friends will be so envious!) or a gem-encrusted Infinity Gauntlet (that Soul Gem is 24 carat!). Let this week's comic haul teach you that superheroes wear more than spandex. More »
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This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us? More »
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The media may be in a tizzy about Clark Kent's swank new duds in Superman: Earth One, but there are many reasons to get excited this Wednesday. Death debuts in Action Comics and Ed Brubaker's Incognito is back! More »
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What's up with this week's comic haul? New Batman , Shadowland, and Locke and Key! Also, the second installment of Marvel's Strange Tales anthology is out! This comic features a ton of indie creators reinterpreting merry Marvel weirdness. More »
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We recently chatted with Doctor Who scribe and DC Comics writer Paul Cornell about his plans for Lex Luthor, London's premiere crimefighting force Knight and Squire, and what it's like to work with Neil Gaiman. More »
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In October's Action Comics 894, the DC Universe's baldest baddie, Lex Luthor, will meet an unlikely guest star...Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman. These characters come from two very different corners of comicdom, but their confluence is a win for readers. More »
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You might think superheroes are played out as heroic archetypes or sources of fresh stories. But you'd be wrong, and a new anthology, Masked, proves it. Anybody who writes superhero comics or movies, or just loves superheroes, should read it. More »
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Get your holiday season properly underway with an early gift from writer Paul Cornell: An all-new Doctor Who story about the end of time (But not the one you'll see on television in just over a week). More »
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If you wish science fiction would have a bit more actual science (and focus on the near future instead of the year 5 billion), you'll be thrilled that When It Changed, an anthology pairing scientists and SF authors, is out. More »
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Jonathan Strahan may call steampunk "Victorian cyberpunk," while Paul Cornell dubs it "the moment the future died," but this "steampunk pumpkin" is the ultimate proof of steampunk overload. Since when do pumpkins need to be steam-powered, anyway? [Instructables] More »
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If you like what you've seen of Scarlett Johanssen's Black Widow from Iron Man 2 so far, Marvel has your future needs covered: Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell will be telling her back story in Black Widow: Year One. More »
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Should science fiction make more of an effort to keep up-to-date with science fact? As part of the UK's National Science and Engineering Week, that's the question that the BBC asked four well-known SF authors. More »
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With the major publishers taking it easy after recent big events, it falls to independent books to come up with movie tie-ins and new ideas this week... Thankfully, they're more than up to the task. More »
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Want to read an awesome alternate history, space-colony spy story from Doctor Who scribe and comic book writer Paul Cornell? Pyr Books publisher Lou Anders posted a free preview of Cornell's story "Catherine Drewe" online last week — the tale serves as the opener to short story collection Fast Forward 2, which Anders calls "all original science fiction stories — no fantasy or slipstream." Cornell has a great introduction to the story's main character, whom he describes as somewhat similar to Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond. More »
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Paul Cornell helped to reinvent British time-travel soap Doctor Who, with his contributions to the New Adventures novels, his webcast starring Richard E. Grant, and some of the most moving scripts of the new series. He's also worked on Marvel Comics, including the new Fantastic Four: True Story, and he's adapting an Iain M. Banks story for radio. He explained to us why he's no longer quite so interested in walking on the dark side. More »
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You'd think that messing around with the timelines would be fun and easy — after all, we're always hearing that the slightest change to history could change everything. But it's not that simple, as we learned at a panel yesterday at Worldcon. For one thing, history is a lot more resilient than you'd expect, according to novelists John Scalzi, Eric Flint and John Hemry, plus Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell. We also learned why most alternate history books involve World War II or the Civil War. More »
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Even though the entire industry spent the last week sunning themselves (and by "sunning themselves," I mean, "slowly roasting themselves in large windowless rooms talking to nerds like me"), your local comic book store will still find itself with a full selection of brand new books tomorrow as regular as clockwork. But, considering that one of those comics is about a bunch of bloggers saving the world, maybe quality control slipped a little bit... More »
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Proving that the UK recognizes the lure of a tall man in a good suit, the third season of Doctor Who has won the British Writers' Guild Award for Best TV Series, beating out another time travel show, Life On Mars, which starred John Simms... who also played the Master in the third season of Doctor Who. Getting away from the self-referentiality of the whole thing, one of Who's writers, Paul Cornell, blogged his pride for all to see, while also explaining why JK Rowling was represented at the awards by soap bitch Joan Collins. More »
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