Today marks the release of a brand new episode of Red Light Properties, Dan Goldman’s psychedelic horror webcomic serialized on Tor.com. Mixing the supernatural realm with an all-too-familiar world of marriage breakdowns, financial meltdowns and everyday horrors, the strip is more impressive work from the man behind Shooting War and 08: …
NBC’s Heroes may have died, but its spirit lives on – not only in NBC’s own new show The Cape, or ABC’s No Ordinary Family, but also in Syfy’s Alphas, which is apparently close to signing Goodnight And Good Luck’s David Strathairn to play the series’ lead character.
Of all the new superpowered television shows headed for small screens …
Was it just me, or was there something very old-fashioned about Saturday’s (American – Yes, I know you’ve seen the season finale, British people and those who download things from websites that we pretend don’t exist) Doctor Who? Romps with historical figures, invisible monsters and lessons about the permanence of time – It was just like …
This just in from the “It’s about time” department: Marvel Entertainment have announced a new division that will concentrate on television, both live-action and animation. And heading it up is a man with a background in writing superheroes for both comics and TV: Jeph Loeb.
Loeb has been appointed Executive Vice President, Head of …
Science has done many truly wonderful things in the past, but little measures up to the sight of Oscar, the British cat with bionic legs. Yes, that’s right: the cat with bionic legs. Oscar lost his back legs in a combine harvester accident, but the skills of Dr Noel Fitzpatrick meant that he was able to jump about at random like every …
Alt-porn site Suicide Girls is claiming that it’s been banned from Comic-Con in San Diego next month, as well as sister convention Wondercon in San Francisco for selling adult material to kids, but Comic-Con seems to disagree. Suicide Girls founder Missy told LA Weekly that the site has been informed it will not be allowed a booth at …
The 2010 Saturn Awards were presented last night by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, recognizing excellence in the genre fields of movie and television and… Well, I don’t think anyone was too amazed to see James Cameron’s Avatar doing so well, or nods for Lost, District 9 and Fringe. In fact, the most …
With Avatar proving to movie executives that non-SF fans can be interested in science fiction movies provided they’re marketed properly, Ridley and Tony Scott are producing what may be the Killer App for crossover sci-fi: Ion.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ion is a story about a man who travels through parallel Earths, looking …
Buried – although not deeply enough, it seems – in the press release about DC Comics’ new digital strategy is this quote from co-publisher Jim Lee:
As both a comic book creator and Co-Publisher, it was incredibly important that our plan includes not only creator incentive payments, but also an innovative component that supports comic
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Wondering how the Futurama crew survived disappearing into a wormhole and ended up with a new season on Comedy Central (starting tomorrow night)? The first 90 seconds of the premiere explains all, and ends with the one of the greatest bad puns in television history. You know you want to see it.
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Starting with Superman #700 – released today – DC Comics’ Man of Steel will give up the jetset lifestyle to walk across America and try and reconnect with humanity, thanks to the efforts of new writer J. Michael Straczynski. But if you’re wondering what makes that any different from his many other attempts to get in touch with humanity, …
If Marvel really is planning to increase the speed of introducing its new characters via shorts accompanying main features, I have to say: Wow, that Disney-ization took quicker than I’d been expecting.
For those coming in late to the rumor, it’s been rumored for a few months that Marvel and Disney were considering a larger …
