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Take Five with Peter Clines, Author, ‘Ex-Patriots’


Take Five with Peter Clines, Author, ‘Ex-Patriots’

Peter Clines is the contributor for this week’s Take Five, a regular series where we ask authors and editors to share five facts about their latest books. Clines is the author of Ex-Patriots, available now:
It’s been two years since the plague of ex-humans decimated mankind. Two years since the superheroes St. George, Cerberus, Zzzap, and [...]

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Superheroes and Zombies: Peter Clines on ‘Ex-Heroes’


Superheroes and Zombies: Peter Clines on ‘Ex-Heroes’

Superheroes in a world gone to the living dead: what does being superhuman mean when the average person is barely surviving? Peter Clines explores this and more in an Ex-Heroes, an exciting new take on two well-worn genres. Clines spoke with me about this cross-genre horror-fantasy in the following interview:
Zombies and superheroes, huh? I smell [...]

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Star Wars

Are Jedi Superheroes?


This year at GeekGirlCon a young woman told the panel that when she and her fellow geeky friends discuss their favorite superheroes, she mentions her favorite Star Wars Jedi. In response, she’s often been told that Jedi aren’t superheroes. It’s your turn to weigh in – Are Jedi superheroes?

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15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring James Berardinelli


15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring James Berardinelli

Each week on 15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, Host Sohaib Awan will highlight the best in genre entertainment.

This week: James Berardinelli returns! Hear what the nation’s best online film critic thinks of this Summer’s superhero movie crop.

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Grant Morrison Honored by Queen Elizabeth II


Grant Morrison Honored by Queen Elizabeth II

For decades Scottish writer Grant Morrison has been leaving his wildly creative mark on the sequential storytelling medium with titles like The Filth, The Invisibles and  Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. When he’s not writing ground-breaking (and mind-blowing!) comics, Morrison is a playwright and screenwriter.
His last book, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous [...]

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50 Page Fridays-Comic Con Series: Larry Tye


50 Page Fridays-Comic Con Series: Larry Tye

The history of the original Man of Steel is explored in great detail in Larry Tye’s newest book, SUPERMAN. Click Read more to check out the first 50 pages!

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15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring James Berardinelli


15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring James Berardinelli

Each week on 15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, Host Sohaib Awan will highlight the best in genre entertainment.

This week movie critic James Berardinelli is back to talk about a few early Summer movies: Dark Shadows, Battleship, The Dictator, The Avengers.

Plus: The annual summer movie false start, Johnny Depp & Tim Burton: Is it time for an intervention, upcoming movies, and more!

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‘Electroboy’ Author Andy Behrman on Creativity, Mania and Superheroic Delusions


‘Electroboy’ Author Andy Behrman on Creativity, Mania and Superheroic Delusions

Andy Behrman’s memoir Electroboy reads like something out of a comic book: globetrotting, high-powered millionaire jets around the world pursuing life’s most exotic thrills, never realizing that the source of his power is toxic until it all comes crashing down. However, Behrman was no superhero – although he did feel like one at times. He [...]

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Synchronicity, ‘SUPERGODS’ and BASHing Meaning Out of Chaos


Synchronicity, ‘SUPERGODS’ and BASHing Meaning Out of Chaos

I went to the emergency room Thursday night. I’ve got a stomach condition. The test have been inconclusive. The agonizing pain has not.
I came home in the small hours of Friday morning. Since then, I’ve been working my way through Grant Morrison’s groundbreaking work of comic book scholarship-cum-autobiography SUPERGODS: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun [...]

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New Superhero Shows in the Works for Television Networks


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TV Guide has the scoop on a number of superhero themed television shows in the works, among them an Incredible Hulk reboot helmed by Guillermo del Toro, Cloak and Dagger and AKA Jennifer Jones,

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