Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of numerous works of dark fantasy and science fiction, including nine novels, several comic-book series (including Sandman spinoff The Dreaming), and over two hundred published short stories and novellas. Now, she brings her tales to the land of Dark Horse Comics. Alabaster is based on Caitlín R. Kiernan’s …
Read More »Dark Horse and BioWare Unveil Dragon Age Digital Comic
Dark Horse Comics announced an all-new digital comic series based on BioWare’s dark, fantasy RPG series, Dragon Age. Written by Dragon Age Lead Writer, David Gaider, and featuring original art by Chad Hardin (Stan Lee’s The Traveler, Web of Spider-Man, The Spirit), the deep and fascinating lore surrounding the Dragon …
Read More »‘Lord of the Rings’ Returns To Game Consoles
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced the launch of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North in North America for the Xbox 360, the Playstation 3 and Games for Windows. Inspired by The Lord of the Rings films and literature, this Action RPG game supports co-op for up to three players and …
Read More »Zombies Invade King Arthur’s Court
The dead have risen and they are walking in the time of King Arthur’s Round Table, and one knight cursed with the “Walking Starvation” is one very close to Arthur and his court. So goes the premise of the new comic book series Knights of the Living Dead by Ron …
Read More »Brace Yourself for a New Breed of Vampire
Author Thomas Winship turns the world of vampires upside down in his blood-curdling new book, “Vaempires: Revolution.” Set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans and vampires have learned to live in peace, “Vaempires: Revolution” introduces vaempires—mutated vampires armed with a little something extra (hence the added “e”), due to either evolution or evilution. Driven by …
Read More »“The Speaker” Debuts In Dark Horse Presents #7
Brandon Graham, creator of King City and Multiple Warheads and writer of Prophet, one of the series in the heavily NYCC-hyped Extreme Studios relaunch, will be making his Dark Horse Presents debut in issue #7. “A man loses his voice—his voice goes off to see the world. Years later the man dies and the voice that walks like a man hears …
Read More »‘Wild Cards’ Headed To Big Screen
Syfy Films has acquired the screen rights to “Wild Cards”, a superhero anthology edited, co-created and co-written by George R.R. Martin. Martin’s fantasy series “Game of Thrones” is a huge success for HBO. Melinda Snodgrass, one of the co-creators and co-writers of Game of Thrones, has been tapped to pen the screenplay …
Read More »Return To Those Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear
Dynamite Entertainment and Classic Media welcome the return of America’s quintessential Western hero-The Lone Ranger to the comic world. The masked man returns with a new #1 in January 2012 as an ongoing series. This new The Lone Ranger comic series kicks off with a six-part story called “Hard Country.” …
Read More »Scorpio Races To Big Screen
Warner Bros has picked up the movie rights to The Scorpio Races, a young adult fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater. They are betting that this may be the next big franchise. The book, released last week, involves mythological flesh-eating horses from Celtic lore, a scraggy island that hosts an annual race, a …
Read More »Usagi Yojimbo Reaches 200th Issue
Earlier this year, Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai was named the 2011 Cultural Ambassador by the Japanese American National Museum. Shortly thereafter, the JANM opened their Year of the Rabbit exhibit—the most comprehensive collection of Sakai’s work to date. Stan Sakai has won several Eisner Awards and has received over twenty Eisner Award nominations. Prior …
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