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What to expect from Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2, Clash of the Titans 3, and Tintin 3!

Alasdair Wilkins — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:00:00 PDT

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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! More »

20 heroic librarians who save the world

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:23:00 PDT

If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian. Librarians are superheroes, adventurers, explorers and invaluable guides to other heroes. Here are 20 amazing librarians who save the world every day! More »

Some Free Comics You Should Nab While You Can

Graeme McMillan — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 PDT

Sure, 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 across the nation are giving away a lot of free books, many of which are worth your attention. Want to know which ones? Click that "more" button. More »

Atlantis' Lost Son Saves This Week's Comics

Graeme McMillan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PDT

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 so?" And then you weep the tears of the unfulfilled, knowing that such perfection is so rare. All of which is my way of saying that this week sees the release of a comic called Jesus Hates Zombies. Absolutely nothing more about that particular graphic novel needs to be said, but the rest of this week's comics? Under the jump. More »

American Hero Lets Readers Inside Wild Cards

grae — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:20:12 PST

When 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 allowing readers to follow - and maybe interact with - the fictional characters competing to become America's next superhero sensation. More »

April Brings Wild Cards To Comics

grae — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:20:07 PST

For 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 could resist? Sadly, the answer seemed to be "comic book fans." A 1990 comic-book adaptation of the successful prose series failed, but now a comics publisher is finally trying its luck with Wild Cards once again. More »