It’s going to happen someday. The host of pulp magazines dwindled away to a last tenacious few (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, for one, is still going); radio dramas disappeared one by one; the final soap operas are slowly being picked off. And eventually the herd of hundreds of serial periodical comic books are going to be thinned out …
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Are Virtual Artists Really Musicians?
Have you heard of Hatsune Miku? The Japanese pop star had one of her biggest performances yet a few months back, singing before a glow-stick waving crowd of enthusiastic fans. She’s pitch perfect, never gets tired despite constantly dancing and never flakes on her performances. Miku is the ideal musician, but she’ll never be able to meet …
Giveaway: “Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series” on DVD and Blu-Ray
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series just went on sale this week, and to celebrate the longest running science fiction television show of all time we’re giving away the latest season of the BBC show to some lucky fans. Matt Smith plays the eleventh doctor with his companion Karen Gillian during this series. The six-disc box set includes …
This Weekend’s Big Sporting Event? The Quidditch World Cup
If you’re at a loose end this weekend and find yourself in the New York City area this weekend, I have just the thing to kill a few hours: The Quidditch World Cup. No, not the one from the fictional Harry Potter universe – That happened earlier this year, in Belgium, and the United States won for the third time running, apparently (I …
“Todd McFarlane’s Spawn” Coming Back to Cable
Though it hasn’t been announced what network the show Todd McFarlane’s Spawn will be reappearing on, the creator insists that it will keep the same mature content that the show had on the original HBO series. He said the show is “going to a cable network, and [adult-themed programming] is their bread and butter,” to MTV News.
(More on …
Two Minute Video: Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks
Here’s a quick look at some tricks you can do with your new Windows Phone 7 device. Aside from the tips contained in the above video, check these ones out as well for some additional functionality.
Quickly delete multiple e-mails
Tap the left-hand edge of any message in your inbox to expose checkboxes next to all your messages. Check
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How the Amazon Rainforest Made Avatar 2 a Priority
One of the things that didn’t get as much attention as it probably should have about the announcement that James Cameron has agreed to make Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 his next projects was that, in order to convince him, 20th Century Fox made a “huge donation” to his environmental green fund. If that doesn’t underline Cameron’s dedication to …
The Comic Book Club: “Adele Blanc-Sec” and “Amazing Spider-Man”
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk and Graeme McMillan talk about The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, vol. 1, and Amazing Spider-Man #648.
DOUGLAS: First off: a round of applause to Kim Thompson for his translation of The …
Is Hollywood Abandoning Found Footage Sci-Fi?
Apparently, the world of found footage sci-fi movies is very like the movie Highlander: There can only be one. After The Weinstein Company greenlit Timur Bekmambetov’s Apollo 18 last week, two other movies that were planning to use the same “fake documentary footage shot by a character in the movie” gimmick have found themselves in …
Fox Joins Other Networks in Blocking Google TV
And then there were none.
Fox has now blocked Google TV’s web browser from streaming episodes found online at Fox.com, joining ABC, NBC, and CBS to round out the major broadcast networks’ stance against the idea of a web browser on a TV set.
(More: TV Networks Blocking Shows From Google TV’s Web Browser)
Further confusing the …
In Honor of Stephen King: The Best Horror Shorts of All-Time
The release of another Stephen King short always brings the dexterity of the short story author back from the shadows. King’s latest collection of novellas, Full Dark, No Stars, has thrust not only his body of work back into public consciousness, but the work of the literary genre he’s come to practically define.
Superman, Wonder Woman Writer Straczynski Leaving Six Months Early
Hidden in a non-announcement about a sequel to DC Comics’ successful Superman: Earth One graphic novel (It was announced as a series initially, so a sequel was pretty much promised from day one) is some genuinely surprising news: Writer J. Michael Straczynski will be leaving both the monthly Superman and Wonder Woman series less than a …