(1) You Won't Rob These Zombie Hunters: There's an undeniable Devil's Rejects quality about this excellent new collection of five 28mm zombie hunter figures, known as The Midnight Raiders, from Raven Painting.(2) Inside Track To DC Adventures: Green Ronin's Chris Pramas spills the beans on the forthcoming DC Adventures roleplaying game - and the third edition of Mutants & Masterminds.
(3) Highly Charged Contents: A 50-page, pdf sourcebook is now available for the SUPERS! roleplaying game from Beyond Belief Games, featuring optional rules, setting background, an adventure and pre-designed characters and villains.
(4) Podcast With Character: The latest Vigilance podcast features an impromptu ICONS character generation session with the game's artist Dan Houser.
(5) Smallville Soap: The Games The Thing's Super May coverage concludes with a podcast interview with Cam Banks, of Margaret Weis Productions, about the nontraditional, soap opera mechanics of the upcoming licensed Smallville RPG.
(6) Golden Age Of Superhero Movies: Warner Bros is developing movies based on The Flash, Wonder Woman and Aquaman.
(7) Never Say Never Again: While the James Bond film franchise may have ground to a halt, a new novel is coming out from thriller writer Jeffrey Deaver on Ian Fleming's 105th birthday next year, May 28.
(8) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Book: The official book of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is due out in October, featuring exclusive new material from Joss Whedon and the production team, new photos and sheet music.
(9) Buffy Gets Serious: Issue five - June 2010 - of Watcher Junior "the undergraduate journal of Whedon studies" is now online, featuring articles on drugs and addiction in the Buffyverse and the artwork of Buffy comics.
(10) Feel The Pulse: Paul Cornell's medical horror pilot Pulse airs on BBC3 on Thursday (June 3) at 9pm, but those in the UK can watch it on online now.
(11) Runaways Movie Will Have No Heroics: The movie adaptation of Marvel's teen superheroes comic Runaways is to be written by Drew Pearce, who was responsible for the utterly dire failed British superhero sitcom No Heroics.
(12) Will Superheroes Be The New Urban Fantasy? Urban fantasy author Kelly Meding has signed a two-book deal for her new series about young 'legacy' superheroes.
(13) Star Wars Disappears: All Star Wars content has now disappeared from the Wizards Of The Coast website, in the wake of them not renewing their license.
(14) Apama Is Nigh: Apama, the comic book central to the indie film Hero Tomorrow, has a cover and is about a month away from being unleashed on the comic-reading public.
(15) Helmless Hobbit: Because of the numerous delays with the project, Guillermo Del Toro has pulled out of directing the two Lord Of The Rings prequels that were to tell the story of The Hobbit, although he will continue to work on the scripts.
I don't recall seeing it in either geek round-up, but the second, and much more indicative, Scott Pilgrim trailer was posted today! Huzzah!
ReplyDeleteY'know, I've not read the Scott Pilgrim books but the trailers look awesome.
ReplyDelete(10) I would like to see this but I suspect my wife won't be on for it. :(
(11) It's funny - Bleeding Cool always made out No Heroics was wonderful. Never saw it myself. Having recently read the Runaways tpbs though this sounds interesting (even if the writer doesn't inspire confidence).
(12) I once had one of those vague ideas of writing a book where the protagonist was a low-powered superhero P.I. investigating metapowered crimes - essentially a superheroic version of the Harry Dresden books. Like many things, it remains merely an "idea" whereas I'm always interested in new superheroic fiction and this sounds promising!
(15) Why the delays? Del Toro would've been brilliant on this and it's a damn shame he's left.
(10) Medical horror's a bit too close for comfort for me - so I'll probably pass, but I'll do what I can to support it as it's Paul Cornell.
ReplyDelete(11) Rachel and I absolutely hated the few episodes of No Heroics we saw - it was totally puerile, and not in a good South Park way, but as though it had been written by a sweaty teenager giggling at his own rudeness.
(15) The delays were primarily to do, as I understand it, with the studio's rocky financial situation.