The DC comic universe is full of heroes and villains (and plenty of characters that don’t quite fall into either group), We’re celebrating all of them during Get Pop-Cultured on Saturday, July 23. Your local Barnes & Noble is hosting a day of super activities for every DC fan. Show off your superhero skills with cosplay and […]
A whole new year is upon us, with brand-new graphic novel excitement to be had. There’s a bunch more Star Wars this month, if that’s your jam (have you seen the new movie? It’s your jam.), and a fine assortment of superhero books, a really touching memoir, and some quirky sci-fi. As they don’t come much quirkier than […]
Last month alone, the Syfy Channel debuted big-budget adaptations of Arthur C. Clarke’s classic Childhood’s End, James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series, and Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. They are clearly trying to win back our SF/F-obsessed hearts,, but they’re not the only network that will be working hard for that sweet, sweet geek cred (and cash) in 2016. If history […]
Over the decades, artists and writers working in comics and graphic novels have produced some truly out-there works, ranging from the mildly bizarre to the downright deranged. That’s a compliment, by the way. Slight derangement just means you’re unwilling to tell the same stories in the same way over and over again. If the results can be a bit […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]
