Books & Comics

We have a very spoilery discussion about Justice League with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee

At DC Comics’ relaunch party in Times Square last night, we caught up with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, the creative team behind DC Comics’ brand new Justice League comic. With Justice League hitting the stands today, io9 asked the creators about the issue’s big reveals. Spoilers on! What prior incarnations of the Justice League…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Read the first 100 pages of a dystopian young adult thriller by a former Air Force Major

The market is being flooded with dystopian and post-apocalyptic novels aimed at tweens and teens, thanks to the success of Hunger Games and similar books. But Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick seems to stand out from the pack, by virtue of its weird premise and its author’s background: Bick is a former Air Force Major…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The comic Daybreak is a field trip through the zombie apocalypse

Brian Ralph’s graphic novel Daybreak takes a phenomenological approach to survivalist horror. Like the participant in a pick-a-path novel, the reader is abruptly plopped down in the middle of a garbage-strewn hellhole. You have no idea why the world is a wreck, but fortunately there’s a nameless one-armed man who’s your tour guide through the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This Wednesday, DC Comics goes all in

Alright, tomorrow is the Wednesday for DC, a.k.a. the day they restart Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and just about every other superhero, save Ambush Bug. Now begins the biggest comic book gambit in recent memory. First Issues DC has only two comics coming out this week: the fifth and final issue of Flashpoint and the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

New Cover and Synopsis for Nick Harkaway’s Second Novel — Including Mad Monks and Doomsday Devices!

Nick Harkaway’s first novel, The Gone Away World, was a silly surreal revelation, so we’ve been anxiously awaiting the follow-up, Angelmaker. And now it looks like we might not have to wait much longer — Knopf says it’s out March 2012 in the U.S. And here’s the cover. https://gizmodo.com/a-post-apocalyptic-comedy-features-ninjas-fighting-mime-5100155 Not only that, but there are…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Survey respondents attribute Bible verse to Captain America

Captain America: The First Avenger was a market coup for Marvel, as people are now inadvertently rewriting the Good Book in his star-spangled name. Reports The Christian Post: A survey [of 2,572 American adults] conducted on behalf of the American Bible Society found that 63 percent incorrectly believed that a verse found in 2 Corinthians…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

How to Sell Readers on Your Story’s Main Ideas in 4 Easy Steps

You always hear writers and other creative people talking about “selling” something to the reader, or the audience. And it sounds terribly crass. What if you’re a great artist, and you don’t want to try and sell anything? This all sounds like… commerce. Or something equally distasteful. But in fact, when people talk about “selling”…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Infinite Kung Fu has some of the tightest fight scenes you’ll find in comics

Kagan McLeod’s new graphic novel Infinite Kung Fu seemingly occupies the nexus of every martial arts film ever made. There are hyper-stylized wuxia techniques, unbeatable Shaolin monks (and their giant training robots), and a town out of a 1970s blaxploitation flick anachronistically plopped down in an ancient China overrun by the walking dead. It’s all…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The time Marvel Comics almost published Batman and Superman

The blog of former Marvel editor Jim Shooter has become a wealth of absolutely crazy stories as of late (see: the origins of Secret Wars, the script for the Dazzler movie), but this latest anecdote takes the cake. According to Shooter, Marvel almost licensed the publishing rights for every single DC character. https://kotaku.com/the-ridiculous-way-one-of-the-1980s-biggest-comic-event-5790820 https://gizmodo.com/read-the-insane-dazzler-script-starring-cher-and-robin-5820598 The…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Robots, Mad Scientists and Damsels: Astounding Pulp Cover Art

Last week, we talked about how science fiction cover art evolved into the colorful, pulpy art we love today. Now, here’s our look at the evolution of cover art from 1930 to 1955, as pulp styles exploded into awesomeness. Pulp Fiction 1930-1949 The Great Depression created a tremendous demand for escapism, one quickly filled by…

Books & Comics Natalie Baaklini

Weird Tales Magazine starts a whole new weird journey

Weird Tales Magazine has been many different things, under many different sets of eyes, over the decades. And now, the magazine is starting yet another new chapter, as a new owner and editor takes over. Hugo-winning editor Ann VanderMeer (who also writes a regular column for io9) announced that she’s leaving the magazine as of…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

In Wednesday’s comics, Batman goes VR and kung fu fighters go nuts

A big heaping dollop of high concept crazy is waiting for you at your neighborhood comic emporium. There are supernatural martial arts masters, a new issue of Kick-Ass 2, and a certifiable deluge of four-color crazy. Let’s examine the goods. First Issues For superheroic fare, there’s the first issue of (the somewhat redundantly titled) Jonathan…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Marvel Comics’ top writers reveal the superheroes’ next big challenge (and why Hulk’s rocking a mustache)

This summer, Marvel’s been putting its superheroes through the wringer in Fear Itself, a miniseries in which a nefarious Asgardian god called The Serpent has a bone to pick with Odin. When Fear Itself wraps up this November, Marvel’s next major story arc Shattered Heroes will subsequently kick off. In a conference call, Fear Itself…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Unbelievably, the sequel to 101 Dalmatians was a trippy scifi novel

Eleven years after she published The Hundred and One Dalmatians (and six years after the Disney adaptation hit the scene), author Dodie Smith followed up her children’s classic with The Starlight Barking, an obscure science fiction tale about extraterrestrial canines and nuclear war and spontaneous levitation. Sure, you could actually track down a copy of…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

2011 Hugo Awards: A good night for time travel, artificial intelligence, and Asimov’s Magazine

The 2011 Hugo Award winners were just announced, and it’s a good year for time-travel stories, including Connie Willis’ Blackout/All Clear and Doctor Who’s fifth season finale. Plus it’s an excellent night for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. So, the winners: Best novel: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. She gave a really lovely speech about how…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Game of Thrones, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes

In an inspired recent installment of his webcomic Hijinks Ensue, cartoonist Joel Watson places Jon Snow and some killer Snow Goons beyond the Wall. See also: Calvin and Hobbes, pulp detectives. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-calvin-hobbes-were-rebooted-as-hardboiled-pul-5820602 [Via The Mary Sue]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Go to This Library and You’ll Get a Human Being with Your Book

Books, at least as we first knew them, are dying. It hurts. But one library in Surrey, British Columbia wants to keep the old boy alive by making it more interactive. No e-readers. You’ll be checking people out! Umm? https://gizmodo.com/the-borders-goodbye-email-is-like-watching-old-yeller-i-5823760 The new Surrey City Centre Library wants to have people on loan for your literary…

Books & Comics Kwame Opam

Eoin Colfer Demolishes the Earth to Make Way for an Interstellar Bypass in Episode 42 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Eoin Colfer, author of And Another Thing, book six in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, joins us to discuss working in the universe created by Douglas Adams. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode…

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Webcomic The Hero Business goes inside a PR firm for superheroes

With all the time they spend saving people, dying, and coming back to life, superheroes can’t be bothered with managing their images. That’s where the webcomic The Hero Business steps in, with a PR firm that manages costumes and continuities. The Hero Business creator Bill Walko worked in marketing and advertising, and had trouble believing…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Real-world policy experts weigh in on rebuilding a post-Voldemort society

I don’t know about you, but I could never get into the ending of Harry Potter. Once Voldemort kicks it, we’re whisked ahead 19 years into the future and everyone’s married to the first person they dated for more than 10 minutes. We don’t see how wizarding society recovers or if Gregory Goyle is tried…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

We have a very spoilery discussion about Justice League with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee

Read the first 100 pages of a dystopian young adult thriller by a former Air Force Major

The comic Daybreak is a field trip through the zombie apocalypse

This Wednesday, DC Comics goes all in

New Cover and Synopsis for Nick Harkaway’s Second Novel — Including Mad Monks and Doomsday Devices!

Survey respondents attribute Bible verse to Captain America

How to Sell Readers on Your Story’s Main Ideas in 4 Easy Steps

Infinite Kung Fu has some of the tightest fight scenes you’ll find in comics

The time Marvel Comics almost published Batman and Superman

Robots, Mad Scientists and Damsels: Astounding Pulp Cover Art

Weird Tales Magazine starts a whole new weird journey

In Wednesday’s comics, Batman goes VR and kung fu fighters go nuts

Marvel Comics’ top writers reveal the superheroes’ next big challenge (and why Hulk’s rocking a mustache)

Unbelievably, the sequel to 101 Dalmatians was a trippy scifi novel

2011 Hugo Awards: A good night for time travel, artificial intelligence, and Asimov’s Magazine

Game of Thrones, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes

Go to This Library and You’ll Get a Human Being with Your Book

Eoin Colfer Demolishes the Earth to Make Way for an Interstellar Bypass in Episode 42 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Webcomic The Hero Business goes inside a PR firm for superheroes

Real-world policy experts weigh in on rebuilding a post-Voldemort society

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