With five seasons under its battle-worn, blood-encrusted belt, The Walking Dead is a cultural phenomenon. The show’s unprecedented popularity has generated renewed interest in the comics and graphic novels it is based on, and a new omnibus or special edition hits the shelves every few months. Though hardcore fans have no trouble navigating all the options, those introduced to the zombie-slaying mayhem […]
Warning: inevitable spoilers through the end of season five of The Walking Dead! I’ve been watching The Walking Dead alongside someone who has never read the comics, and who regularly shouts, “no spoilers!” at me when I start in with observations from my perspective as someone who has read all of the comics (where the storyline […]
For over a decade, 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 […]
Creative types have been mining material from the sciences for years. Hollywood loves the imaginative leaps of science fiction (it’s been churning out Philip K. Dick adaptations for decades), and sometimes it even gets the science right. And these days, science is borrowing back from the arts. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall took the title for her latest […]
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 […]