All the news that’s fit to capsulize!
JUST THREE MONTHS AWAY!
Coinciding with the theatrical release of SPIDER-MAN 3, this year’s Free Comic Book Day is set for Saturday, May 5. Just a few of the many, many titles to be up for grabs are DC’s LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY, a Dynamite Entertainment flipbook of THE LONE RANGER and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, IDW’s TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE PREQUEL, Image’s THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN, a three-in-one MARVEL ADVENTURES from Marvel (natch) and a little something called THE UNSEEN PEANUTS, featuring more than 100 never-reprinted strips of Charles Schulz’s legendary comic strip. You can see all the covers and get the lowdown on each title at the official FCBD website.
HARD CASE GOES HOLLYWOOD
Hard Case Crime publisher Charles Ardai reports – via Variety – a deal has been struck with the producers of HBO’s acclaimed series ROME to make a string of movies based on Hard Case titles. First up will be Ardai’s own LITTLE GIRL LOST; after that, the books slated for adaptation is undetermined.
TICK … TOCK … TICK … TOCK
We’ve got a “guerilla Internet novel” to tell you about, but it’s best just to reproduce the e-mail we got telling us about it:
“Something you might be interested in – www.jackgrey.com.
It could be real.
It could be fiction.
It could be 24 in blog form.
Who knows, but people are talking about it.
Thought you might like to contribute to the conversation.
Or not.” –Rod Lott
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