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Exclusive story and Executioner’s Heart competition
George Mann authors the audio scripts for the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sherlock Holmes series. He writes the popular steampunk Newbury & Hobbes mystery series and the latest book in that is The Executioner’s Heart. Just what is Mann’s writing like? He had a challenge from Geek Native – write a Newbury & Hobbes […]
Bored at work: Saucy Star Wars
Bored at work and with a big pile of Whataburgr ketchup packets at hand? Here’s the solution; build yourself your very own AT-AT Walker. It’ll be a challenge and something to photograph yourself beside later. Via Reddit.
EN Publishing’s Zeitgiest AP hardcover storms Kickstarter
With a few days on the clock EN Publishing’s Zeitgeist AP Kickstarter project will beat its target by more than $10,000. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/zeitgeist-ap-hardcover-compilation-pathfinder-and/ [Back this Campaign] The project from Russ Morrisey (aka Morrus) and Ryan Nock looks to put together as many of the Zeitgeist: The Gears of Revolution together in a hardback. It’ll be available […]
Amazon launch Jet City Comics
Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics. An original comic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s story “Meathouse Man,” illustrated by Raya […]
Are these the Guardians of the Galaxy villains?
Den of Geek are citing “solid” sources and claiming they know who will be in the film. According to them Benicio del Toro will be playing The Collector, Lee Pace will be Ronan The Accuser and Karen Gillan will play Nebula. The Collector is one of the oldest characters you can encounter in the Marvel […]
Will Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Universe create a DC Universe?
You’ve seen the Marvel films and know how they all live in the same “Universe.” We had the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents throughout and then the Avengers as the wrap. Will DC manage something similar? Will Superman act the starting movie that creates a world the others live in? If so then attention must turn to Guillermo […]
Games group signs deal with IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing is the fourth largest comic publisher in the States. They’ve an impressive range of comic book titles including Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, True Blood, Locke & Key, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2000 AD’s Judge Dread, Star Trek, Godzilla, G.I. Joe and the Transformers. The deal signed with The Powell Group gives […]
Doctor Who teaser: #thefourth
On the 4th the BBC snuck up a mysterious teaser video for Doctor Who. It’s called #thefourth and has voice from the 4th Doctor, as played by Tom Baker, and his companions. Remember all the “and remember” thread running through the Clara Oswald plot? Good. This clip ends with The Doctor urging in a whisper; […]
A review of Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective
I enjoyed Poe’s work and Rue Morgue is one of my favourites. Despite having read Poe, despite having read the adventure of Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin and his nameless narrator I somehow missed the history of the short story. In Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe invents the detective. He invents the detective before the word […]
