The Queen of the Tearling Erika Johnson HarperCollins The Queen of the Tearling is the story of a young queen, Kelsea, taking the throne in a dangerous time. She has lived in hiding almost her entire life and has no practical experience running a country. But she sets out to rule by the strong values…
Interview: Courtney Hahn, Co-Creator of Podunk
Courtney Hahn is doing excellent work in all age comics. She’s been webcomicing, drawing, and guest-posting like a boss. Her illustrations are bright, happy, and clever. Even the ideas behind the comics make me smile. Like Uni-puppy. It’s a puppy unicorn. There is everything to love about that. I met Courtney at last weekend’s Kids…
Superman Character Poster Debuts for Dawn of Justice
USA Today debuted a new character poster of Superman for his upcoming movie, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and it looks as dark, gritty (and depressing?) as the first Man of Steel movie. They also talked to director, Zack Snyder, about the character and the film. Man of Steel was all about Superman finding his place…
Short & Sweet: Archie, Uncanny X-Men, Silver Surfer, and More!
Trees #1 Writer: Warren Ellis Artist: Jason Howard Image Comics It almost goes without saying that we are in a glorious heyday of great science fiction comics with books like Saga, Manhattan Projects, and East of West on the stands. Now Warren Ellis has thrown his hat in the mix with Trees and an opening…
Starz to Develop American Gods
Good news for American Gods fans – the book is getting another chance to make its small screen debut. I’m a big fan of Gaiman’s 2001 dark fantasy novel. In fact, out of all of his books, it may be my favourite. So a few years ago when I heard that HBO was in talks…
The Thursday Book Beat: Melissa de la Cruz Writes Descendants Prequel
Melissa de la Cruz to Pen Descendants Prequel Melissa de la Cruz, author of Witches of East End and Blue Bloods, will be writing a novel based on the characters of Disney’s new movie, Descendants. It’ll be a prequel to the film that’s set to come out in 2015 and will be titled Isle of the Lost.