Aug 18, 2008
News about science fiction on the Internet.
- Fanzines beget blogs by Robert Ebert
- TTA Press launches Transmissions From Beyond podcast site
- Fruitless Recursion is a news website that publishes criticism of science fiction criticism
- Castle Television Series new website launched. Castle is a drama based on a famous mystery novelist, Nick Castle (Nathan Fillion) who helps the NYPD homicide department solve crimes.
- There You Have It, 10 Years Of SyFy Portal. SyFy Portal celebrates 10 years online.
- SF…
Aug 6, 2008
“Ahhhahahahahahaa… Ah-hahaAah! HahaAaAah… so that’s, y’know, coming along.”
The Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog webisodes were shot in the span of six days and funded by Joss Whedon (for a low six figures). On July 15th, Act 1 of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog launched and under a massive influx of traffic the site crashed (reportedly taking the Whedonesque website down with it). By July 19th the third and final Act was online and by…
Jul 8, 2008
Astonishing X-Men #25
Writers: Warren Ellis
Artist: Simone Bianche
Publisher: Marvel
This is Warren Ellis’ first issue of Astonishing and they’ve teamed him up with Simone Bianche so I had high expectations. And I certainly have no criticisms of the art. Ellis wastes no time establishing the new setup. Most of the team are in place when the story opens and only Storm gets re-introduction. Not sure about the new “X-Mobile” but it does…
Jun 9, 2008
This entry is part 15 of 16 in the series Weekly Comic Book Reviews
Well I’ve been frantically reading three weeks worth of comics to get myself caught up and I’m finally in a position to at least some comic book reviews again. Starting with the most important book I missed.
Final Crisis #1
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: J. G. Jones
Publisher: DC
As promised Final Crisis started with Kamandi and then zipped rapidly on to…
