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This fall, DC Comics will restart every big superhero comic at issue #1

We’re only one issue into DC’s fractured timeline Flash story Flashpoint, but apparently the miniseries’ ramifications are so monumental they’ll knock the entire DC Universe back to square issue one. Also, DC’s starting day-and-date digital publishing with these renumbered titles. From DC’s press release: On Wednesday, August 31st, DC Comics will launch a historic renumbering…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Awful, Wonderful Truth Behind Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The world is full of retellings of the Brothers Grimm lately, but Lisa Goldstein’s new novel The Uncertain Places makes the world of fairy tales feel like a living place, with a long history that intersects with our own world. The Grimms’ stories are much stranger and darker than many people realize from looking at…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This week in comics, alternate reality Batman is extremely annoyed

This week’s comic haul brings new issues of Marvel and DC’s big summer events, a new Hellboy miniseries from Dark Horse, and an unfamiliar, cheesed-off Caped Crusader who’s more Punisher than Adam West. First Issues A few Flashpoint tie-in miniseries are out this week. I’m particularly jazzed for Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s Batman: Knight…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In Naamah’s Blessing, tantric sex comes to the New World

The ninth novel in Jacqueline Carey’s D’Angeline series, Naamah’s Blessing, is set over a century after the events of the incredible trilogy that began with Kushiel’s Dart. Her alternate history Europe has entered the early Renaissance period, and our supernatural heroine Moirin — half-Maghuin-Dhonn druid, half-D’Angeline sex priestess — has already journeyed all across Asia.…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

10 scenes from the most ridiculous sports comic ever published

It’s Memorial Day here in the States. The sultry weather makes my mind turn to stupidly awesome comic books, namely DC Comics’ Strange Sports Stories, a short-lived 1973 anthology about the unfathomable cosmic dangers inherent in physical activity. In Strange Sports Stories, Satan loved baseball and the history of the human race depended on knocking…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

We know that professional handsome man Isaiah Mustafa has talked to Marvel about the possibility of playing Luke Cage, and now check out this promo video of the actor as Power Man. Neat stuff, but there’s no disco tiara. https://gizmodo.com/awesome-casting-rumors-for-the-hunger-games-luke-cage-5795115 [Via CBM]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

Dictators are used to having their manliest poses carved into stone statues, or their most avuncular portrait printed on posters. But one Russian artist is bringing authoritarian iconography into the 21st century by drawing Russia’s boss-for-life Vladimir Putin as an ass-kicking character in an online comic book. Radio Free Europe reports that Russian writer, Sergei…

Books & Comics Adam Rawnsley - Danger Room

A real-life Deadpool is patrolling a small city in Washington state

Real superheroes usually create their own crime-fighting monikers, but one freelance do-gooder in Wenatchee, Washington (a.k.a. “The Apple Capital of the World”) has assumed the mantle of Marvel Comics’ “Merc With A Mouth,” the deranged assassin Deadpool. Malefactors beware. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-life-superheroes-of-salt-lake-city-are-charmin-5798467 Fortunately for the citizens of Wenatchee, their Deadpool is a mercenary of munificence who just…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

“Magick Chicks” sends mean girls to monster-hunting school

After getting expelled from their school for teenaged monsters, a trio of witches enrolls in an all-girl academy for monster hunters. To fit in, they’ll have to hide their witchy natures and contend with a telekinetic queen bee. Gisèle Lagacé has a storied career in webcomics, having collaborated with T Campbell on Cool Cat Studio…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Blake Charlton Performs Magic and Medicine on Episode 8 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Blake Charlton, author of Spellwright, joins us to talk about fantasy, dyslexia, and medical school. Plus, Dave and John discuss magic and medicine in fiction. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode here, subscribe to The Geek’s Guide…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams

Use your LEGO helmet to listen to comic books

In case LEGOs aren’t cool enough for you on their own, how about if we throw a gold-visor space helmet, USB drive, and some comic books into the mix? That’s the ingenious thinking behind Jonathan Robson‘s concept design for the LEGO Audio Comic. By inserting the LEGO-brick USB into a slot in the helmet, the…

Books & Comics Kirstin Butler

The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was really depressing

Here’s some weird trivia to bandy about. In 2004, Dark Horse Comics published “Into The Great Unknown,” a 10-page story that marked the first Lucas-approved (if non-canonical) meeting of Han Solo and Indiana Jones. It was also a massive bummer! This not-so-cheery tale, which was written by Star Wars comic scribe W. Haden Blackman and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why You Should Really Cut Back on Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s entry for substance dependence says it better than I ever could. Which is pretty much the whole problem. Please, for the love of high school research papers and stupid bar arguments everywhere, please let the Wikiservers stay strong. [xkcd]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

The Manhunt for the German scientists who faked the Roswell crash

New evidence is coming out that Area 51 was a Soviet conspiracy to destabilize the United States with a flight full of fake aliens. But who was really behind this scheme? An excerpt from Annie Jacobsen’s Area 51 reveals all. https://gizmodo.com/was-area-51-a-conspiracy-between-stalin-and-joseph-meng-5802211 This excerpt from chapter two of Jacobsen’s new book details the hunt for the…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Wednesday brings us mature-readers comics…in spaaace!

This week’s comic bounty includes a groovy scifi compilation from Vertigo, a sentient grappling tooth, a Jack Kirby tribute project, and an artifact Brian K. Vaughan’s tenure penning everyone’s favorite mutant shapeshifter (no, I don’t mean Morph). First Issues First off, DC is releasing their new science fiction anthology Strange Adventures this week, which features…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In DC Comics’ Xombi, a nanotech-infused immortal fights the wrath of God…with an ax

We’ve been totally digging John Rozum and Frazer Irving’s relaunch of DC’s supernatural comic series Xombi, what with its crime-fighting nuns and exceedingly strange villains. Check out this exclusive five-page preview of the next issue. Xombi #3 is out tomorrow, May 25. For more information on Xombi’s weapons-grade weirdness, head on over to our recent…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Pyr Books branching out into young adult fiction

Now that science fiction and fantasy are accounting for a bigger share of young adult titles, it’s only natural that SF publishers would want to move into publishing YA themselves. Pyr Books will publish some titles aimed at younger readers. According to Pyr’s press release, the first YA book will come out in November: K.D.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Chug some moloko and read this comic book pitch for A Clockwork Orange

Comic artist Kevin Colden (DC’s Strange Adventures, Act-I-Vate’s Fishtown) recently posted an unused pitch for a graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. Check out Alex and his droogs engaging in some ultraviolence, comic style. Says Colden, “Over the last two years, a number of friends and colleagues have seen these, but for…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Suicide Girls comic book! It’s a nip-slip dystopia! NSFW!

In IDW’s Suicide Girls miniseries, the eponymous pin-up girls are a crack team of katana-wielding freedom fighters who have trouble keeping their blouses buttoned. Here’s a sneak peek at the girls fighting the Man with blades, blogs, and free-wheeling naturism. The comic hits stands this Wednesday, May 25. Here’s a synopsis of the issue from…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In praise of that nameless guy who was always yelling on old comic covers

Comic books have come a long way since the 1960s, but publishers have since sadly phased out one of my favorite aesthetic flourishes: that histrionic nobody who was perpetually screaming his lungs out on the front page. Like all art, comic books are victims of the cruel vicissitudes of fashion. And like such contrivances as…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This fall, DC Comics will restart every big superhero comic at issue #1

The Awful, Wonderful Truth Behind Grimm’s Fairy Tales

This week in comics, alternate reality Batman is extremely annoyed

In Naamah’s Blessing, tantric sex comes to the New World

10 scenes from the most ridiculous sports comic ever published

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

A real-life Deadpool is patrolling a small city in Washington state

“Magick Chicks” sends mean girls to monster-hunting school

Blake Charlton Performs Magic and Medicine on Episode 8 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Use your LEGO helmet to listen to comic books

The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was really depressing

Why You Should Really Cut Back on Wikipedia

The Manhunt for the German scientists who faked the Roswell crash

Wednesday brings us mature-readers comics…in spaaace!

In DC Comics’ Xombi, a nanotech-infused immortal fights the wrath of God…with an ax

Pyr Books branching out into young adult fiction

Chug some moloko and read this comic book pitch for A Clockwork Orange

The Suicide Girls comic book! It’s a nip-slip dystopia! NSFW!

In praise of that nameless guy who was always yelling on old comic covers

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