Last time, we talked about Susan’s leaving and Vicki joining the Doctor, leaving the people of Dido, the Doctor, and Bennett for this time. Unlike most stops of the TARDIS, this one brings the Doctor back to a world he had visited before, but at a different time in its history. Vicki had been told by her companion Bennett that the people of Dido are violent. This has been underscored by the threatening nature of Koquillion, one of the...

A Sneak Peek at Covers and Solicit Information BRAND-NEW COLLECTION: MARADA THE SHE-WOLF Writer: Chris Claremont • Artist: John Bolton Format: Page Count: 112pp Retail Price: $24.99 Street Date: November 12, 2013 THE FANTASY CLASSIC COLLECTED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! FULLY REMASTERED, AND FULLY RESTORED! From comics legends Chris Claremont (The Uncanny X-Men; Excalibur; Captain Britain; Fantastic Four; Gen 13) and John Bolton (Man-Bat;...

In 1965 Ishiro Honda and writer Shin’ichi Sekizawa created Invasion of Astro-Monster, in the US called Godzilla vs. Monster Zero. The plot is pretty straightforward. A planet is discovered just beyond Jupiter, a popular science fiction theme of the day, and the Earth sends a space ship out to see it and plant a flag. Because there’s nothing alien civilizations like more than for strangers to show up and plant a flag on their planet. The...

Watch the teaser trailer and then scroll down for more information! The fantasy classic collected together for the first time ever! Featuring beautiful, fully-restored art, in depth features, history and never-before-seen sketches and artwork! Titan Comics is pleased to announce the launch of Marada The-She Wolf by Chris Claremont (The Uncanny X-Men; Excalibur; Captain Britain; Fantastic Four; Gen 13, Sovereign 7) and John Bolton (Man-Bat;...

On June 18, Hyperion is releasing two novels based on ladies of the Marvel universe. One of them is Rogue Touch, by Christine Woodward–the story of Rogue, from the X-Men comics, trying to live in light of the fact that the slightest touch of her skin is dangerous. Along with The She-Hulk Diaries, the books have been billed as YA and chick-lit. Rogue Touch serves as a brilliant introduction to the concept of mutants without including any...

On July 16, 20013 (soon, in other words), Titan Books is releasing The Guild: The Official Companion, a book which goes behind-the-scenes of Felicia Day’s comedy web series. Since launching in 2007, the comedy web series The Guild has become an Internet phenomenon, with over 150 million views. Created, written by and starring Felicia Day, it follows the story of a Guild of online gamers who finally meet in real life. Here at last is the...

Earlier this year, Fox’s popular television series Fringe ended after five successful seasons. The story in the show lives on through Titan Books’ new Fringe prequels written by Christa Faust. The first in the three-book series is The Zodiac Paradox, which focuses on Walter Bishop. Subsequent novels are The Burning Man (July 2013) and Sins of the Father (October 2013), telling the early stories of Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop...

In case you missed it yesterday, our very own Crafty Geek, Rebecca, was featured on The Star Wars Blog yesterday, in an article on (of course) Star Wars crafts: “Fully  Operational Fandom: Scissors Are the Lightsabers of Crafting” She mentions the difficulty of making lightsaber handles. Think if we nag her we can get the details here? Also featured in the article are a beautiful cross stitch baby blanket, the cutest R2D2 hat ever,...

Sausage and Peppers is a quick and easy “go to” recipe in my house.  It’s big on flavor without  a lot of prep or cooking time so it is perfect for those nights when you want to toss something quick together. Ingredients: 2 Italian Sausage (hot or mild) 2 Medium Bell Pepper 1 Medium Onion 1 Large Can Diced Tomatoes 1 Can Tomato Paste Black pepper to taste Italian seasoning as needed for additional flavor Pasta (I like pene for this but any...

Angel’s Egg (1985) is an OVA I profoundly like—but I may be weird.  Whether this collaboration between artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mamoru Oshii will appeal to you depends strongly on what you look for in anime.  If you like the meditative, beautiful, and atmospheric, you may be in for a treat.  However, if you like your stories to have some sort of plot and pacing and make sense, you may wish to look elsewhere.  One thing is undeniable:...

Next month Titan Books is releasing Turbulence, an action-packed Indian superhero novel. Penned by Samit Basu, one of the India’s most talented young writers with an impressive profile in comics, YA and SF&F (The Game World Trilogy, Untouchable), Turbulence is a helter-skelter superhero tale with a unique Indian flavour. Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn’t have the right...

Prepare for your favorite IDW comics to get a little more animated than usual this September! All month long, IDW will be publishing special “IDW GETS ANIMATED” variant covers rendered in vein of classic cartoons! Ever wondered what The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully would look like as colorful, hijinks-having monster chasers?  Ever wanted to see the mighty Judge Dredd as a rubber-jointed 70’s warrior? OF COURSE YOU HAVE! Luckily for you, intrepid...

After being pushed back for a month, X-Men Vol. 4 #1 is out and available for the masses!  This is the first digital comic I have ever purchased via Comixology‘s same day as print option. I’m not sure if I will go that way again because I prefer having a comic in my hands as opposed to pixels on my computer screen or on my iPod. I’m an old school comic book fan. I have been out of the X-Men loop for a while.  Over the last two...

The famous experimental anthology by Dave Elliott launches today! Take a look at the trailer here, and then scroll down for some further information and some interior art.     A1, the award-winning anthology series by Titan Comics and ATOMEKA debuts today with three fantastic ongoing strips: Weirding Willows, Odyssey and Carpe DIEm. A1 has a long pedigree in comics. Launched in the late 1980s as an outlet for the creator-owned stories...

There is a new trailer for The Hobbit up! I’ve watched it, oh, four times now? And I’m still on the “let’s respond!” rather than the “let’s analyze!” end of the spectrum. Initial responses:  It is beautiful (It’s Peter Jackson creating Middle Earth; of course it’s beautiful). I am looking forward to more Rivendell. I want to see the dragon. I’m grumpy about the barrel-riding...

Attention, Comic-Con International Cosplayers! This is your chance to appear in a Top Cow comic book! Stop by the Top Cow booth (#2629) during the industry’s top convention, taking place in San Diego from July 17 to 21, dressed as one of the Image Comics imprint’s iconic characters to have your photograph taken. Whether you cosplay as an armored up Darkness, Jackie in a tux, your favorite version of Witchblade, or characters from CYBER FORCE,...

The Simon & Kirby Library: Science Fiction is a broadly defined book — vintage comics by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, both, and sometimes neither (if Simon edited an anthology and Kirby drew a couple of the stories, the whole thing is fair game). The result is unsurprisingly inconsistent and frustrating. Open it at random, and you’re guaranteed a fantastic panel — a superhero poised beneath a meteor of text; a wheel hurtling...

From the moment you mounted your first horse, saber, worg or kodo, you’ve appreciated the speed boost of not having to walk around Azeroth as you play World of Warcraft. If you have the gold at level 60, you can take to the skies, and at level 90, you can earn the right to fly a cloud serpent over Pandaria. For some players, the standard mounts are enough: You have your racial mount, your faction’s winged mount, and perhaps...

What do X-Men, X2, Watchmen and The Guyver: Dark Hero have in common? Read on, gentle reader and you shall see. Written by Nathan Long and directed by Steve Wang, The Guyver: Dark Hero picks up somewhere around a year later than the first movie left off. Sean, now being played by David Hayter, is having trouble with his new bioarmor. His girlfriend can’t handle his constant drive to not just stop criminals but also kill them and she leaves him...

Lovers and Madmen In “Lovers and Madmen,” McCreery and Del Col do their by-now expected excellent job of keeping the plot pacing taut and the characterization strong. They also demonstrate a mastery of the cliffhanger, and I am now wondering how they can possibly finish this tale in only one more issue. Can I start by saying how much I enjoy McCreery and Del Col’s portrayal of Lady Macbeth? She’s wonderfully merciless...