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When George R.R. Martin recently visited Conan to talk about the Death-Prone Characters in Game of Thrones, they took him backstage where they grilled him about surprising plot details coming up in season 4.
You may be surprised! Or at least tickled…
Even superheroes have bad days…
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Just when you think that every combination of mashup has been done before, here comes School of Thrones, a send-up of Game of Thrones that recasts the HBO series sin the mold of a teen school drama…
The awesome, wish-I-had-their-job folks at How It Should Have Ended have put together another episode in which the ever-egotistical Batman shares his thoughts with Superman on the Man of Steel trailer…
Best Fan Writer Hugo-winner Jim C. Hines nominated me to moderate the first panel I was ever on. He loves breaking in new writers. His Jig The Dragonslayer trilogy, now out in a Daw omnibus, is a humorous sword and sorcery tale about a goblin. He followed that with the four book Princess cycle which are fairy tales gone awry crossing Disney princesses with Charlie’s Angels. Published by Daw Books, his latest book Libriomancer starts a new trilogy, Magic Ex-Libris, about a librarian hunting a killer. Because he likes to stretch himself, being as he lives in Lansing, he set this series in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s an urban fantasy with a lot of humor, involving dryads, wizards, vampires, automatons and more. Jim’s short fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Fantasy, Andromeda Spaceways, Writers of the Future and several anthologies. He can be found online at Facebook, Twitter via his website at and his blog.
Bryan Thomas Schmidt talks to Jim C. Hines about his career and his exciting future projects.
SFFWRTCHT: Starting at the beginning, Where’d your interest in SFF come from?
Jim C. Hines: Ahem. Is this thing on? My interest in SF/F comes from the fact that swords and magic and spaceships and lightsabers are awesome.
What happens when you take Nolan’s Batman and Bane and add in a little Burt Ward Robin?
In a word…awwwkward!
And NSFW.
If you haven’t checked out Geek and Sundry’s show ‘Written by a Kid’, here’s a great place to jump in.
The premise is simple – they sit down with a kid, have them tell a story, and then they produce that story as a little short. It’s great stuff.
This week we have: Robots Attack by Maile Martinez.
Apparently, Batman’s fears are less intimidating than his persona might imply…
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Poor Bane. Life has not been kind to him after the events of The Dark Knight Rises. He has only himself to blame, of course, but still…you can see how life has beaten him down seven years later…
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A lot of people tell me I should’ve watched more of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but I just couldn’t do it. I like my Batman dark.
Still, this video of Aquaman singing to Captain Atom is pretty darn amusing.
Check it out after the jump.
Does this need an NSFW warning? You bet!
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“After a long day working two jobs, Superman’s duties never seem to end when Krypto decides that this must be the place.”
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Colin Mochrie, for those of you who don’t know, is a comedian whose biggest claim to fame is appearing on the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both the US and UK version. Since the show went off the air in the States several years ago, you may wonder what Colin’s been up to. Well, wonder no more! It seems he’s been whiling away the time by playing with Star Wars figures.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
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Plastic Man just wants to mail his letter…
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Evil is afoot, but Supergirl is grounded…
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God bless the Internets…and the whims of GorillaMaskNet, who compiled this video of the many occurrences of people saying, “I’m Batman.”
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You really don’t want to go into battle with a utility belt loaded with the wrong stuff…
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Hello, my hairy hotdogs! You’ve spent far too many long and lonely nights without the golden Beware the Hairy Mango podcast and I’m here today to give you a taste of what you’ve been missing. Out of the last thirty-five episodes it turns out I had about four good ones, so I’ve wrapped them up bug as a snug and delivered them here to you! Lie down in your chair and ready yourself for the best twenty minutes of your natural life!
WARNING – Filthy Dirty Listening Up Ahead!
But wait! There are three more gems like this after the jump!
One of my favorite shows form the CartoonNetwork swath of DC inspired fare, was the Teen Titans. It had a great mix of anime, humor and DC Comics to amuse. Sadly, the show is gone, but those characters and the sense of whimsy the show displayed, lives on as part of the DC Nation Shorts on CartoonNetwork.
Here’s ‘Turning Back the Clock’, where we get to see the various incarnations of the Titans and their uniforms.
This DC Nation short features The New Teen Titans and, specifically Beast Boy, in an amusing little short.
Favorite line belongs to Raven: “Eat the stupid cookie.”
