William Shatner (Walter H. Bascom), Greg Evigan(Jake Cardigan) and Torri Higginson (Beth Kittridge) from TekWar. William Shatner’s futuristic world of TekWar is coming back to life as a graphic novel, produced by Bluewater Productions. TekWar started off as a series of science fiction novels officially authored by William Shatner and co-written by uncredited science-fiction author [...]
Will I. Am (John Wraith/Kestrel), Lynn Collins (Kayla Silverfox), Hugh Jackman (Logan/Wolverine), Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson/Weapon XI) and Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed/Sabertooth) at the Tempe, Ariz., premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. My husband and I were watching the extras on the Blu-Ray edition of X-Men Origins: Wolverine the other night and I learned something that [...]
Talk about a travel read! You can now read a new Transformers comic on your iPhone through the www.titanpublishing.com/digital. Alas, these comics are only available in the UK and Ireland. The stories are written by Simon Furman, who has this to say about the downloadable comics for the iPhone: “The stories, written by me and [...]
The next Albany-Colonie SFF Extravaganza, a “quarterly” convention for science-fiction and fantasy collectors, is scheduled for Sunday, March 21, 2010. Since this is a convention for collectors, the emphasis is on the vendors who sell comics, toys, DVDs, and other collectibles. Which is probably why the price of admission is so low … only $3 [...]
The world of comics (and I’m not talking stand up here) is both its own genre and part of speculative fiction at the same time … which is why I include it. Many comic book fans are also fans of science fiction, fantasy and or horror and many comics fall into one (or more) of [...]
The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, to be held Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, features the stars of the 1969 cult classic film The Green Slime, known for it’s low budget special effects and over the top theme song. The Green Slime Trailer Personally, I’ve never heard of the film, but what what [...]
The 15th annual Fan Expo Canada is taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building on August 28-30, 2009. The event is the largest combined gaming, horror, comic, science fiction, and anime event in Canada and features celebrities and pop culture heroes from a multitude of genres. As with most cons, Fan Expo [...]
The Middle East’s first theme park has opened in Jahra, Kuwait, and it features characters from The 99, the world’s first superheroes based on Islamic culture and society. The theme park, called The 99 Village, includes rides, games and other amusements, as well as a stage show telling the story of The 99. And, of [...]
Anime Supercon is a convention for anime, animation, comic book and manga fans taking place Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2007, in Ft. Lauderdale. Fla. The show will include celebrity guests, artists, vendors, Q&A’s, parties, costume contests, giveaways, anime programming, manga, cosplay, workshops, panels, comic books, cosplay photoshoots and more. For more information visit www.animesupercon.com. [...]
Sci Fi Weekly reported something I just had to share. Horror author Neil Gaiman and his daughter, Madeleine, visited the set of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army in Budapest last month. Madeleine posted some pics (with captions) of her on the set in Gaiman’s blog. Check them out, they’re kinda cute. Budapest, because of its [...]
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