As Miracle Day continues, Oswald Danes takes to the airwaves, a mysterious red-haired woman plots, and the CIA brings Torchwood to America—but those who want them dead have a very long reach….
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Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Novel Review: Eutopia
Old-time America, the eugenics movement, and Lovecraftian horror get surgically grafted in David Nickle’s first solo novel, with disturbing results.
Review: The Marvels Project: Birth of the Superheroes
The (first?) eight issues of The Marvels Project appeared in 2009-2010 to celebrate the company’s anniversary. The collected graphic novel hit shelves this year. It takes a new yet familiar look at the early years of Timely Comics the Marvel Universe.
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We’ve got some recent promotional material for Dark Knight Rises, space news, a Star Trek app, and a really weird 70s take on superheroes.
BONUS UPDATE: Anyone wanna buy a twenty-foot-long animatronic triceratops? Only $350,000.00 each, from (Where else?) Hammacher Schlemmer.
Torchwood: “The New World”
Torchwood begins again with Miracle Day, a season long exploration of the consequences when death abandons the human race. If the first episode is any indication, this may be the best non-print SF of the year.
Weekend Review: It! The Terror from Beyond Space
We’re between summer genre releases, so this weekend’s review takes you back to 1958 and a noteworthy B-pic of SF’s drive-in days—one with ties to more lasting, familiar films.
Scott Pilgrim: Volumes 4-6
Lisa: Oh my god. You killed him.
Scott: Maybe we should go.
Last week, we reviewed the first three volumes of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s acclaimed graphic novel series, which inspired the film.
Scott’s pilgrimage concluded in three more manga-sized editions, published between 2007 and 2010.
If the Internet were Real Life….
This very funny, but slightly NSFW video appeared Friday at Youtube.
I wonder what our site would look like….
Weekend Review: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s oddball graphic novel series became a film last year, one of those cool little pictures destined to do far better at home than in the theatre.
It’s about this, like, 23-year old slacker who finds the girl of his dreams—and must battle her seven evil exes.
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The solar eclipse you won’t see today, lots of weird news washes up from the deep, a teenager may head into space, off-world garbage threatens astronauts, personal jetpacks for sale– and some excellent short films….