David Bishop edited 2000AD seven years ago, before moving on to fresh pastures. Before doing so, he wrote a rough guide to putting together a weekly comic as reference material for his successors. If you’re at all interested in the technical aspects of running a comic, this is a fascinating read.

Nicole Kidman had to go to hospital recently for a checkup after a minor car crash. Kidman’s publicist, Catherine Olim, said the star was trying to shake zombies off the bonnet of her Jaguar when the car spun off the road. “I think she’s OK,” said Ms Olim. The story in full.

Huzzah! Last night I finally managed to catch up with the legendary pilot “Heat Vision and Jack”. Created in 1999, the pilot was directed by Ben Stiller and starred Jack Black and the voice of Owen Wilson. Jack is an astronaut on the run from Nasa, aided by his only friend Heat Vision, a talking […]

Billy Mernit has sold his novel to Random House. Huzzah! Only one problem – he doesn’t have a title. And that’s why he needs your help. There’s even prizes. OK… So, not great prizes. But prizes nonetheless. And just think of the bragging rights.

Damn but the man is good. John Rogers talks about the way he thinks new technology is going to impact viewing. To summarise: Big networks die and networks built on informational assessors will become the dominant guiding force. That was a bit of a mouthful. Let’s break it down. A TV network is a filtration […]

Don’t believe a word of it. They’re just really good friends.

It’s William Gallagher with his targets of Sell A Novel and Sell A Drama To TV. One bottle per, as usual. In other news: I got through to the next round of the Gumball 3000 competition. Looks like my opponents from the Scribosphere are Good Dog and Phill Barron. Fortunately there are three prizes, so […]

Down the pub this evening, I was appalled to discover that the toilet had been vandalised with one of the most offensive things in the English language. The word “Cunts” had been scratched into the wood above the urinal. With an apostrophe.

Marking papers re-interpreted as a text adventure. Text adventures, kids, are what we used to do before they were able to pipe verisimily worlds directly into our brain-pans. Ask your grandfather, if you can get him out of that Ginger Lynn sim.

So, apparently there’s going to be a Firefly MMO. Well, it could work, and work well. There’s a passionate fanbase, and they “hope to get input from series creator Joss Whedon.” The Firefly ‘verse has several well-defined areas and a great many more unexplored corners. The potential’s there. But is it gonna fly? You’ll note […]