Media Relations / February 6, 2011 / Red
So I finally got around to watching Red, the Bruce Willis movie theoretically made from the comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer. And I will tell you right now that the only surviving part of the comic is the "retired agent yanked out of retirement because people are trying to kill him" part of the ( Read more... )

So the 2010 Hugo Award nominations (for works issued in 2009) were announced. And some of them were great, and some of them were just ... odd. I mean ... odd.

Just to sample a few:

Best Novel(699 Ballots ( Read more... )

The Best of 2008
2008 proved to be an interesting year. Fewer zombies, thank the deity of your choosing-or at least, I read fewer of them, so they didn't make it onto this list. A few more superheroes, depending on how you define things (and no, I didn't read Marvel's Secret Invasion or Dark Reign, and since DC's Final Crisis periodically made me ( Read more... )

Because, for some reason, there have been a boatload of new series/miniseries started in the last two weeks.

Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, episode 1 of 4, "Read Me First" (Warren Ellis/Steve Pugh; Radical)
Alice Hotwire is a detective exorcist for a metropolitan police department that discourages the use of the word "ghost" in favor of "blue- ( Read more... )

A (very) few reviews, to get my hand back in. But first, a cheesy science fiction television mention.

So apparently Stargate: Universe will effectively be recycling the Starlost or Star Trek: Voyager concepts. (And for those of you -- i.e., everyone -- who is thinking "Starlost? What the heck is that?", try this. and also maybe the videos here. I ( Read more... )

Warren Ellis » The Patchwork Years:The years 2001-2007, approximately, on the web were the crazy years. The patchwork years. The years the web was massively and chaotically pumped full of Stuff ( Read more... )

Thanks to being spectacularly unwell the week before this went up, followed by a week out of town, I completely forgot to mention that it was there.

Indie Boy Strikes? Again!
Part 2: Slipping into the future

So, as we've seen, in tales of the future near and far, frequently it all falls apart. War, famine, pestilence, and death can all cause ( Read more... )

And hey! there's even one title that falls into both categories!

( Forward into the fray... )

Hopefully better spoilered this time.

Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle 3 (Grant Morrison/Freddie E. Williams II)

...Jesus freakin' CHRIST!

( Let's deconstruct the ending behind this cut tag, shall we? Let's shall... )

Girls, they come and they go. They kiss, come, and they go.

( And while our hearts are suspended in time, they maybe kill a few dozen or so people.... )