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Not Your Same Old Magical Realism: New Mexican Stories of the Fantastic

Small Beer Press’ latest volume, Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, contains 34 stories published in Mexico in the past decade — most of them from the past two years. Writing in the Seattle Times, Nisi Shawl praises this volume for presenting a fresher look at magical realism than…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s first iteration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a much shorter work titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Although the final product is well known for John Tenniel’s memorable illustrations, Carroll himself illustrated his original manuscript. In fact, many of Tenniel’s illustrations were actually based on Carroll’s own. Carroll gave the original, handwritten manuscript…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

In Sarah and the Seed webcomic, a woman gives birth to a giant seed instead of a baby

When an older woman becomes pregnant, there are always a lot of concerns. Will the baby be born healthy? Will the labor be difficult? In Ryan Andrews’ short and sweet webcomic Sarah and the Seed, a woman’s pregnancy results in something her husband never thought to worry about: a giant seed. Sarah and the Seed…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

In webcomic Darkness, a lonely guy must neutralize his roommate’s brooding, seductive superpowers

Have you ever met a guy who embodies darkness? A man whose shirt is always half unbuttoned, whose disheveled hair blows in the nonexistent wind, and who is accompanied by a melodramatic caption box? A fellow whose vampire-esque brooding has women flinging themselves at him from halfway across the block? Jonas is just such a…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The strange afterlife of pulp hero Franke Reade

Portland-based Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett are a husband-and-wife team of multimedia artists who have produced a variety of work from comics (the science fiction romance Heartbreakers and the superhero Chronos, among others) to the website and book about Boilerplate, a robot. Their new book, Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, is their…

Books & Comics Jess Nevins

Minimalist superhero posters bisect Batgirl and Spider-Man into their alter egos

Designer Danny Haas has created a series of weathered posters that split famed superheroes’ personalities straight down the middle. For characters such as Jean Grey and Susan Richards, the divide is less obvious but no less charming. Here’s hoping he makes a Multiple Man diagram that’s shaped like a pie chart. You can pick up…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In the latest G.I. Joe comic, Snake Eyes goes to war with a zillion ninjas

Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s an exclusive seven-page preview of the next issue of the Snake Eyes ongoing series. This issue — which hits stores next Wednesday, February 8 — features such Joe characters as Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Iceberg, Helix, and more ninjas than you can shake a bō staff at. Here’s the plot…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Which fantasy novel taught you about being a good person?

We read fantasy books for all sorts of reasons, including escapism, gritty action, and immersion into detailed, ornate worlds. But one great reason to read fantasy novels is because many of the genre’s best works deal with how to be a good, ethical human being. So I was wondering — what’s the fantasy novel that…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

10 Batman Webcomic Parodies (Occasionally) Better Than the Real Thing

Look, we all love Batman. We really do. It’s just that we love him, in part, because his persona is so easy to exaggerate, satirize, and skewer. And there’s no better way to share your Batman parodies with the world than by using webcomics. Today we honor ten people who have done just that —…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

How John Hodgman Learned to Love George R.R. Martin

Speaking to DCist, John Hodgman explains that he felt embarrassed to be reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire at first, but then he got over it. For good reasons: I read the Lord of the Rings and stuff, but I really only turned to the George R.R. Martin serial because I…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

In a South Korean mall, you can see The Incredible Hulk using the bathroom

Apparently there’s a mall in Seoul where shoppers can ponder the biomechanics of The Incredible Hulk relieving himself, an act that requires a seismologist, an eight-person hazmat squad, and a charm of soothing from Dr. Strange. Add this to the list of unsanctioned superhero public art around the globe. https://gizmodo.com/visit-rome-see-the-statue-of-superman-and-batmans-fore-5822137 Semi-Related: Hulk comic book toilet…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Just how exactly did the Watchmen prequels ruin your day?

As you might’ve noticed, new Watchmen prequels — which will be published under the banner Before Watchmen — were officially announced yesterday by DC Comics. https://gizmodo.com/dc-comics-unveils-full-list-of-watchmen-prequels-5881187 DC’s decision to resurrect Watchmen without original creators Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons prompted much teeth gnashing among the book’s fans, whose invective next inspired other comic readers to…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

An artist depicts one of the most shocking scenes in Harbinger, the latest dystopian YA novel

Locked away because of her strange waking visions and her nightmares, Faye is seeing a disturbing vision of the world’s impending destruction — even as the real world beyond her walls is actually falling apart, thanks to an oil crisis which has caused chaos and mass rioting. Sara Wilson Etienne’s Harbinger is perhaps the most…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Tremble before Wil Wheaton’s evil magical cloak from The Guild!

On Felicia Day’s fantasy gaming webseries The Guild, Wil Wheaton plays Fawkes, the Machiavellian leader of the Axis of Anarchy online guild. Fawkes is the antagonist (and occasional paramour) of Day’s heroic cleric, Cyd “Codex” Sherman. And even though Wheaton’s played a major role on The Guild, we’ve never seen what his in-game avatar looks…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Get ready to obsess about this alternate universe where Arabia’s the world’s only superpower

The Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war have reverberated through science fiction and fantasy for over a decade, giving us plenty of stories of terrorism, wars of occupation and clashes of cultures. But Matt Ruff’s The Mirage, which comes out next week, might just be the ideal prism with which to refract your memories…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Publishers destroy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s amazing artwork

Alvin Schwartz’s collection of haunting tales Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an important gateway drug into the world of the supernatural. And as terrifying as the stories about brides locked forever in an attic trunk truly are, it’s the artwork by Stephen Gammell that kept you up at night. Gammel’s black and…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Read a preview of Batman and Robin, starring Bruce Wayne’s ninja assassin son!

One of the newer cast members in the Batman comics is Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul’s semi-sociopathic offspring. Since his birth, Damian has been trained in the art of murder by the League of Assassins. Damian’s mellowed considerably since taking up the mantle of Robin, but he’s still a pint-sized rebel. In…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Read the best stories from Tor.com in a free e-book anthology

Your commute to work needs more post-apocalyptic heroic songs and interstellar voyaging. Tor.com has you covered, with a nifty free e-book collecting “Some of the Best from Tor.com.” It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Yoon-Ha Lee, Harry Turtledove, Paul Park, Nnedi Okorafor, and myself. You can pre-order the book now, and it’ll be available for…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Buy some John Scalzi books, support breast cancer screenings!

John Scalzi is the master of making us offers we can’t refuse. And this time, he’s letting you take money from his pocket and put it into the hands of Planned Parenthood. Recently, the Susan G. Komen Foundation bowed to pro-life bullying and withdrew support for Planned Parenthood’s breast-cancer screenings. So for the next week,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Fearsome Monsters that Fight for the Sith Lords!

The Dark Lords of the Sith. Most of us grew up fearing Darth Vader and his compatriots — but the Sith Order holds many other secrets to dread. And a new volume of Star Wars lore, Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side, is chock full of monstrous Sith apparitions. We’re lucky enough to…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Not Your Same Old Magical Realism: New Mexican Stories of the Fantastic

Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll

In Sarah and the Seed webcomic, a woman gives birth to a giant seed instead of a baby

In webcomic Darkness, a lonely guy must neutralize his roommate’s brooding, seductive superpowers

The strange afterlife of pulp hero Franke Reade

Minimalist superhero posters bisect Batgirl and Spider-Man into their alter egos

In the latest G.I. Joe comic, Snake Eyes goes to war with a zillion ninjas

Which fantasy novel taught you about being a good person?

10 Batman Webcomic Parodies (Occasionally) Better Than the Real Thing

How John Hodgman Learned to Love George R.R. Martin

In a South Korean mall, you can see The Incredible Hulk using the bathroom

Just how exactly did the Watchmen prequels ruin your day?

An artist depicts one of the most shocking scenes in Harbinger, the latest dystopian YA novel

Tremble before Wil Wheaton’s evil magical cloak from The Guild!

Get ready to obsess about this alternate universe where Arabia’s the world’s only superpower

Publishers destroy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s amazing artwork

Read a preview of Batman and Robin, starring Bruce Wayne’s ninja assassin son!

Read the best stories from Tor.com in a free e-book anthology

Buy some John Scalzi books, support breast cancer screenings!

The Fearsome Monsters that Fight for the Sith Lords!

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