HBO hires George R.R. Martin to make all the shows

Perhaps ebullient over the phenomenal ratings Game of Thrones has received over the course of its two seasons (and anticipating more of the same when the show returns on March 31st), HBO has signed George R.R. Martin to a two-year deal which will allow him to continue as co-producer on Game of Thrones, but also let…

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Neil Gaiman once pitched Sandman to George R.R. Martin, but Martin…

When thinking about Neil Gaiman, The Sandman is one of the works that springs immediately to mind. The epic comic series about the brooding king of dreams helped put Gaiman on the map as a comic creator. But if George R.R. Martin had accepted an idea Gaiman pitched to him many years ago, Morpheus might not have been…

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What to expect from Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2, Clash of the…

Another key Dark Knight Rises cast member is spotted in New York. George R.R. Martin's other famous series gets a movie adaptation. Joshua Jackson promises the epic return of an old Fringe villain will be the best episode ever!

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Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

robofree.jpgSure, so this Wednesday was kind of a weak one for comics, but that's because everyone was saving the awesome up for tomorrow. What's so special about tomorrow, you may ask yourself (beside it being Saturday, and therefore requiring no work for the majority of you)? Well, it's Free Comic Book Day 2008, where stores…

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Atlantis' Lost Son Saves This Week's Comics

Every now and again you find something with such a wonderful, perfect, title that it throws every other story in the world into sharp relief. "Why," you think to yourself, "does every other story in the world not have a title so ideal to crystalize its content and intent into one small, simple phrase that touches my heart …

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American Hero Lets Readers Inside Wild Cards

wildcardsamerhero.jpgWhen is a TV reality show not a TV reality show? When it's a multi-author blog in support for the latest in the Wild Cards series of anthologies. American Hero, the TV show at the center of Inside Straight, the eighteenth book in the series released last month, has made the leap off the printed page to become a site…

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April Brings Wild Cards To Comics

epic3a.jpgFor those of us who spent teenage years lost in books and comics, 1987's Wild Cards was a dream come true: an anthology of short prose fiction about superheroes written by some of science fiction's favorite authors. One of them flew around in a tricked-out VW Beetle! Another of them had kinky sex magic powers! Who…

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