Crack open the champagne, throw a steak on the grill, toss on your buzzy bear slippers, do whatever it is that you do to celebrate – Free Comic Friday is here!
AND there’s big news!
Top Cow has recently released the winners of their Pilot Season contest. If you aren’t familiar with Top Cow, then we must [...]

David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia, also does a bit of writing for The Washington Post from time to time. David is one of the smarter people you’ll ever meet, a writer who has a flair for the balanced and is not prone to rash statements or obtuse thinking.
It is no surprise to me [...]

In conjunction with next week’s trade paperback publication of Gentlemen of the Road, the swashbuckling tale of adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, I asked Michael Chabon to provide a list of his all-time favorite adventure stories. He didn’t confine himself to ten; instead, here is
THE DASHING [...]

Variety announced yesterday that an “I Am Legend” prequel is in the works with the plan for Will Smith to reprise his role as Robert Neville, and Francis Lawrence directing again. According to Variety, “The prequel will chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left [...]

An announcement went out this morning to the effect that DC/Vertigo is cancelling its teen/tween line, Minx. A lot of people have already weighed in on the topic, primarily with a bummed-but-resigned “Well, what did you expect?” shrug.
Just because it was expected doesn’t mean it isn’t a damn shame. [More after the jump]

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Steven Erikson visited the University Bookstore on September 22nd to promote his new US release, Toll the Hounds—and here is some of that visit!
Steven spent most of the event reading from Toll the Hounds and two poems from Dust of Dreams. He then answered a number of questions from the crowd on a menagerie [...]

Hollywood has always been in love with sequels and remakes, especially when it comes to horror movies. You can barely be considered a successful horror property unless you have at least 4 films under your belt. And we can all agree that the vast majority of the time, these amount to diminishing returns. (Did we [...]

On September 10, Suvudu launched a contest geared toward giving (4) people free weekend passes to the NY Anime Festival, taking place September 26-28 in New York City.
First, thank you to all who submitted your fine artwork for the contest!
Our judges, Ali Kokeman and Tricia Narwani, had a difficult job choosing but they have [...]

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Terry Brooks visited the University Bookstore on August 26th to promote his new book, The Gypsy Morph—and he was caught on video!
At the event, Terry spoke about his future works, answered questions from the audience, and read an excerpt from the forthcoming 2009 Magic Kingdom of Landover novel. There are five parts to the [...]