SDCC ’13: To Do – Adventure Time ConQuest!
If you're going to wander around exhausted and bewildered at The Con, you might as well have a reason. That's where this year's Adventure...
Fox orders League of Extraordinary Gentlemen TV pilot with eye to series
You know how warm and cuddly and special Alan Moore gets when they makes movies from his work?
Well imagine how happy and chipper he'll...
Orson Scott Card waves a sullen white flag on gay marriage to thwart ‘Ender’s...
Controversial jacket-holding author Orson Scott Card has finally commented on the proposed boycott of ENDER'S GAME, the tentpole SF movie based on his work...
Tolja: Lone Ranger was doomed to flop
It's official: THE LONE RANGER, the latest Gore Verbinski/Johnny Depp period piece film, is a big flop with awful reviews, and an anemic $48.9...
Who Would Win? Star Trek vs. The Empire
Last week, I came across this image on Google Plus, and a lengthy (200+, multiple days) discussion ensued. Who would win? The USS Enterprise,...
Book Con! Cool Books I Discovered at the Library Conference!
Twice a year, the American Library Association holds a conference. Awards are given, training is taught, and much fun is had. (A lot of...
Editorial: The DC Movie Universe is not as bleak as you think
By Mark E. Johnson
In the post-Clooney world of 2005 we were all more than happy to accept a grimmer, more 'realistic' Batman. It was...
On the Scene: Indie Publisher Confronts Amazon Exec at Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
by Bob Calhoun
The mood was tense in the fourth floor conference room of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on Saturday—especially for a...
Podcast alert: More to Come argues Man of Steel and remembers Kim Thompson
People often ask me, "Why don't you do a podcast?"
I answer, "I do."
In this week's podcast, the More to Come Crew—Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald,...
Spike and Geico are looking for real life superheroes for a new TV show...
Another reality show about people who are real life superheroes? (Stan Lee did it already.) Yep. It will air on Spike, and they will...
Life among the nerdlebrities: Wizard World NYC
I had no idea what to expect as I approached the Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience last Friday evening. First off it was located a new venue—Basketball City—in a part of Manhattan that I had never been to except on an FDR Drive flyover: a mysterious realm east of Chinatown, north of the Seaport and south of the Williamsburg Bridge. In local speak we call it "no mans land": the moody banks of the East River.
What are the Graphic Novels That Always Work?
EW recently put out a "best of everything" issue, and Johanna Draper Carlson caught the ten best graphic novels list, which I'll quote from...















