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The name Stephen King conjures up images of horrific creatures, monsters, places, and some of the most enduring villains in fiction. These are beings of unimaginable evil that test the limits of the protagonists’ will to survive, and some of these villains have gone on to become almost as famous (or infamous) as the writer

Marvel Comics has signed a deal to bring more of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard’s works to Marvel. Since Conan arrived back at Marvel earlier this year, the company has had great success with the most savage hero of all. Marvel has delighted fans’ bloodlust with both Conan the Barbarian by Jason Aaron

Event comics usually come with a passel of one-off tie ins. Sometimes they’re very good. Sometimes they’re a way of giving someone a try out. Sometimes they’re a way of getting somebody work. These are all good things! But very rarely are they ever impactful on a character or the direction of a line. That

There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the fantasy books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Best New Fantasy Books in July 2019 Dragonslayer by Duncan M. Hamilton Type: First book in trilogyPublisher: Tor BooksRelease date: 7/2/19

When DC’s Black Label imprint was first announced, fans were promised that they would journey to the darkest edges of the DC Universe with some of the most brilliant creators as their guides. Batman: Damned, by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, kept that promise, delivering one of the most terrifying, challenging, and controversial DC projects

House of X and Powers of X have done the unthinkable: they’ve made having an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel X-Men continuity minutiae an asset. Now I have a reason to talk about Xorn’s brother Xorn who was posing as Magneto pretending to be Xorn OTHER than to make someone go away. This is, of course,

Stephen King is a master of the short story, able to dish out horror tales to make your skin crawl, astounding sci-fi, and even literary reflections aimed at more “sophisticated” readers. He’s done it all, with no sign of stopping.  Although I’ve had the tough task of picking 16 of my favorite King horror tales

There are two things that make Wonder Twins #7 really stand out. Its storytelling elegance, and the way it juxtaposes delighting in its own lowbrow humor while also finding grace in those silly jokes. Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne’s book started out as a six-issue mini about the Super Friends twins, whose previous greatest character development

With It Chapter Two, screenwriter Gary Dauberman returns to finish the job than he and director/co-writer Andy Muschietti started in 2017, when they adapted one half of Stephen King’s 1,100-page novel for the screen. After telling in It: Chapter One the simultaneously terrifying and sweet-natured story of the Losers Club, seven kids who faced down

Michael Clayton and Nightcrawler producer Jennifer Fox has made a deal with Euphoria‘s production company, A24, to develop a new adaptation of Ursula Le Guin’s best-selling Earthsea books for TV (via Deadline). Fox was originally looking at turning the Earthsea series into a string of films, but has changed direction to target the small screen.

Shared universes are apparently no longer restricted to Marvel and DC blockbusters, at least that’s the notion streaming service Hulu was embracing last December, when it started plans for television series adaptations of multiple John Grisham novels. That’s right, folks, Hulu was conceiving a live-action franchise that was to be called The John Grisham Universe!

This article is presented in partnership with Leftfield Media and Big Easy Con. It isn’t enough to throw a party in New Orleans; it has to be done the right way, in a style befitting the Crescent City. And that’s a big part of why the Big Easy Con pop culture event by Leftfield Media

Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale was released in 1985 and was adapted into a TV series for Hulu in 2017. Atwood’s long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel, The Testaments, will be released on September 10, 2019. It definitely won’t take 32 years for that to be adapted. Deadline reports that MGM TV and Hulu

Superpowered stories tends to focus on the external powers more than the internal when it comes to powers. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry. (Bruce isn’t talking about the emotional repercussions of pissing someone off here.) Enter The

“A fairy tale has a way of getting into your head,” promises the new Gretel & Hansel trailer. “Even before you hear it.” Directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House), the upcoming adaptation of the classic cautionary story from the Brothers Grimm looks like it

Here at Den of Geek, we love a good space opera: that delightful subgenre of science fiction that combines action, adventure, romance, and melodrama and sets it all in space. Between now and the end of 2019, fans of space opera have a lot to look forward to. Whether or not you’re excited about the

A good adaptation will make you reexamine (or reevaluate) the source material. This is why Doom Patrol will endure as a great TV show. It revelled in its comic book-iness in a way that no other comics TV show would ever dare, and amplified the things about the comics that made them so unique. Gerard

We are in a new age of Stephen King adaptations, with dozens of novels and stories from the legendary author being developed for the screen as either movies, limited series or ongoing TV shows. One of the best to come out of the gate so far was director/co-writer Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of King’s mammoth It – or rather, half

Robotech: Remix is fast approaching and fans are beyond hype. Following up on the events of Robotech: Event Horizon, Robotech: Remix will shift the focus onto Dana Sterling, the main character from the Masters Saga of the franchise. This is the first time in quite a long time a Masters character has gotten the spotlight

Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge tie-in novel Black Spire is about good people, but, unfortunately, isn’t a very good novel.  Resistance spy Vi Moradi is on a mission for General Leia Organa: build a Resistance base on the out-of-the-way planet Batuu. If she fails, the First Order could wipe out the Resistance for good. For a book set after

Author Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Carry On) and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks (The Nameless City, Avatar: The Last Airbender) have teamed up for Pumpkinheads, a new graphic novel about two high schoolers embarking on a final night of adventure in the pumpkin patch they have called work-home for the past four autumns. Deja and Josie are

This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 3 Episode 24 Young Justice starts the final run of the season by closing out most of its Apokalips storyline. Who could have guessed that a Gorilla-Beast Boy vs. Business Granny Goodness showdown would be so much fun? Now that I typed it out, I’m sure

The Serial Box team hasn’t rested on its laurels since announcing a partnership with Marvel to create new prose serials, based on the comic powerhouse’s characters. Instead, they opened arms to the other comics giant, and DC supers will be joining the Serial Box suite with their own new stories. Three of DC’s most popular

How is it that the work of Jack Kirby, which contains some of the most colorful characters and influential mythology of the last century, still manages to feel so personal? Comic books are now known at least as much as source material for exciting movies as they are for being currently published graphic stories. Kirby’s

Authors launching the second book in a series have a great advantage over their first installment in a new world: by book two, a good chunk of world building has already been done. But series writing comes with a disadvantage, too. Ilona Andrews, whose well-known “Kate Daniels” series wrapped a year ago, discussed the problems of revisiting

You Know Nothing…about the Black Knight. Get it? Because the Black Knight is being played by Kit Harington? You know, the dude that played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones? So like, “you know nothing…” Ah, forget it. Ahem. So it seems that the Black Knight is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in The Eternals. This

This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 3 Episode 26 All told, Young Justice: Outsiders has been up and down. It’s been a lot more up than down, but the negatives of the season are there and undeniable. And true to the entire season before it, “Nevermore,” the season finale, does just about

Out on September 24th, The Tenth Girl is the perfect read for the fall season and beyond. The story follows Mavi, an Argentine teen who flees 1970s Buenos Aires and the military regime that took her mother for a remote girls boarding school located on a remote cliff in Patagonia, at the very southern tip

Sure, connected universes may be all the rage these days, but Archie Comics has been ahead of this curve for decades. Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Crisis on Infinite Earths were even a glimmer in a young nerd’s eye, the plucky publisher had Archie and the gang interacting with Josie and the Pussycats

I love comic book universe space stories. It’s a love I came to later in life – I was into space-based sci-fi outside of comics since before I could read, but I was a pretty down the line ’90s X-Men/Batman kid when it came to comics, and I wasn’t really interested in seeing anything but