Books

The third volume of Jack of Fables is “The Bad Prince,” collecting issues #12-16. This is the bit of Jack’s story that gets one panel in Fables, at the Christmas where Ghost puts the fake sword through the doll!Jack, and something happens in Jack...

A Study in Lavender, edited by Joseph DeMarco, is a new anthology from Lethe Press that features a variety of queer-themed stories set in the Sherlock Holmes canon(s); some are (obviously) about Holmes and Watson’s relationship, but others deal with ...

<br />I’ve previously written about the Symphony of Science project twice here (an introduction and a link to the then-newest video), but I’ve been remiss in writing about the past few new additions. There have been three further songs since ...

The second volume of Jack of Fables, Jack of Hearts, collects issues #6-11. It tells the story of Jack’s adventures in Las Vegas—winning spectacularly, but then… Well. There’s also some backstory, in the form of a tale told to his fellow escape...

On occasion, I come across a fan-made video for something that’s so ridiculous it’s impossible not to pass it along. This is a song about Star Fox, put to the tune of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” acted out by puppets with papercrafts for sta...

Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love is a side-story volume about Cinderella that was released in 2010. As one might guess from the title, it’s a spy-thriller sort of story, with Cinderella tracking down magical items that have been smuggled into the...

The first volume of the Fables spinoff, Jack of Fables, is this one: “The (Nearly) Great Escape.” It contains issues #1-5 of the Jack of Fables single comics, starting right at the moment we last see Jack in Fables—hitchhiking with a briefcase fu...

Several weeks ago, I linked to the heavy cover of the opening theme song for Game of Thrones. That was pretty cool. Now, I have one better: The opening theme remixed in 16-bit!Again, I’m not sure which I prefer, but this is so nerdy-cool.Brit Mandelo...

Image Comics has a new series, written by Mark Andrew Smith with art by Armand Villavert: Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors. It’s a comic geared towards a YA audience about a school for teen villains to learn the tricks of their trade—but t...

The second half of Fables volume 15, Rose Red, starts with “Dark City” and runs through two other story arcs, “Single Combat” and “After the Duel.” There are also several shorts at the end of the volume—the “Celebrity Burning Questions

In February, the final book of Elizabeth Bear’s Jacob’s Ladder trilogy was released, completing an ideologically ambitious narrative that explores several familiar SFnal concepts with a fresh and vibrant focus. The three novels—Dust, Chill, and G...

The new Borderlands anthology, Welcome to Bordertown, begins with a series of introductions. One is from Terri Windling, talking about the shared-world series she began in the eighties as a young editor, and the energy behind it, the developing possibi...