Category: Books (71-80 of 321)

Oct 15 2012 06:06 PM ET

'Castle' graphic novel: A five-page preview of Derrick Storm's latest adventure

Derrick Storm is back with an all-new adventure, and EW has a five-page preview!

As Castle fans know, Derrick Storm is the character created by author Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) on the show — it’s the franchise that made Castle a household name (and enabled him to afford his swanky loft).

And while the graphic novel doesn’t feature the illustrated versions of Castle, Beckett and the rest of the gang, Marvel editor Sana Amanat says fans might find Storm has more in common with Castle than we might think. “Derrick Storm is quite similar to Richard Castle: he’s clever, but awkward, silly, but loveable—and ultimately, extremely good at what he does—solving mysteries,” she says. “Clara Strike is the intense CIA agent and complicated love interest, while Carl Storm, Derrick’s father, and sidekicks Rebecca and Sassy, add great comedic moments to the story. The story keeps you intrigued and excited, while the characters keep you glued to the pages. This is as much about the espionage adventure as it is about the dynamic between these characters, which is also what makes the show so special.”

See below to check out these pages from the book, out today.

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Oct 11 2012 05:22 PM ET

'Buffy' season 9 spin-off 'Willow': Our favorite witch tries to bring magic back to the world -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK

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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 — the spin-off comic book series, overseen by Joss Whedon, that continues the story of his distaff dispatcher of neck-biters — the world is devoid of magic. It’s made life less outrageous for Buffy and her friends — no giant Dawn rampaging through the streets of Tokyo, for example — but for one of the Scoobies, it’s also made life simply less, period.

For Willow, reverting from a righteously powerful witch to just another mortal person has proven so painful, her one goal in life has been to bring magic back to the world. But how? Willow recently finished an arc on the sister comic series Angel & Faith in which the trio ventured into a hell dimension in the pursuit of their own impossible goals. And in this first look at the five-issue Willow miniseries (subtitled “Wonderland” and launching Nov. 21), we get a sense of what’s at stake for Willow’s quest other than the return of her magical mojo.  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2012 09:53 AM ET

The 11 most absurd moments from last night's 'Fifty Shades of Grey'-themed 'Law & Order: SVU'

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Image Credit: NBC

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. And when those offenses revolve around a bestselling erotic novel that promises to release a woman’s “inner Venus,” they also tend to get especially ridiculous.

If you didn’t catch Law & Order: SVU‘s take on Fifty Shades of Grey last night, you missed out on an hour stuffed with twists, hammy performances, and dry references to nipple clamps. Veep‘s Anna Chlumsky guest starred as Jocelyn Paley, the author of a wildly popular novel that “makes Fifty Shades look like a Disney story.” Broadway (and Revenge) vet Roget Bart joined her as Adam Cain, a blowhard talk show host who rapes Jocelyn, then claims their rough sex was consensual. Sound intriguing? Then you’ll love this collection of the night’s best lines:

1. Cain, to Jocelyn when she first appears on his talk show: “I don’t know if I should kiss you or spank you.”
Jocelyn: “Who says you can’t do both?”

2. Detective Rollins, describing a scene in the book that’s similar to Jocelyn’s rape: “In Act Five, the main character is choked with a belt and sodomized. She has like, 18 orgasms.”

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Sep 28 2012 12:00 PM ET

Entertainment Geekly: The Untold Story of Marvel (with guest star Sean Howe!)

Here at Entertainment Geekly central, we’ve been buzzing over the impending release of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, an in-depth look at the long and twisted history of the company that created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and also Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu. Written by former EW staffer Sean Howe, Untold Story features over a hundred original interviews with the people who made Marvel — names you probably know like Stan Lee and names you should know like Steve Gerber. This week on the podcast, Sean joins us in the studio. Suffice it to say that comic books are discussed.

Listen to the complete podcast below, or check us out in the iTunes store. You can also learn more about the book at Sean’s Tumblr page. Tweet arguments and counterarguments at us at @EWDocJensen and @DarrenFranich.






Past Podcasts:
Entertainment Geekly: ‘Big Brother’ finale, ‘Last Resort’ premiere, and the fall videogame preview
Entertainment Geekly: Fall Geek TV Preview!
Entertainment Geekly looks at ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Cloud Atlas,’ and the other geeky fall movies
Wonder Woman and Superman in love! Plus: More ‘Big Brother’
Thoughts on the ‘Hobbit’ trilogy, and an argument for the greatness of Paul Verhoeven

Sep 27 2012 08:50 PM ET

'Law and Order: SVU' to tackle 'Fifty Shades' -- What other popular books would you want to see as episodes?

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Law & Order: SVU is officially the latest to embrace the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon. As we reported on Wednesday, the show has announced plans to dedicate a whole episode to E L James’ erotic novel. The episode will follow the author of a “wildly successful S&M romance novel” called “25 Acts.” When she is assaulted by the host of a popular TV show, the team tries to convince her to press charges. But in their attempt to help her, they uncover a secret from her past that could threaten her very livelihood. (DUM DUM.)

While the Law & Order franchise is famous for featuring “ripped from the headlines” plot lines, this may be the first time we’ve seen them tackle a book. (I confess, I have not seen every episode of Law & Order: SVU, so correct me if I’m wrong.) We think they’ve put their finger on a sleeping market, however, so we’ve decided to help the showrunners along by suggesting some other book-based story lines.
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Sep 27 2012 05:43 PM ET

How author Adam Mansbach and Samuel L. Jackson reunited to 'Wake the F-k Up'

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Just as early voting for our next president begins today in Iowa, Samuel L. Jackson popped up this morning in an unabashedly partisan campaign video urging lethargic Obama supporters to “Wake the F— Up.” If the tone and rhyming rhythm sound a little familiar, it’s probably because the video resembles Jackson’s narration of Adam Mansbach’s best-selling “children’s book,” Go the F— to Sleep. That’s no surprise since Mansbach himself teamed up with the Jewish Council for Education and Research and co-directors Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) and Kitao Sakurai for the video, which stars a concerned young girl who reminds her apathetic family that failing to actively support the president could cost them down the line.

Mansbach, who has two novels coming out in 2013 and a film adaptation of his Sleep best-seller in the works, had never met Jackson in person before, so he was excited to finally shake hands with the man who helped propel his book to the top of the charts last year. “When Sam came to the set about halfway through, there was a sense of almost euphoria because everybody pretty quickly realized, ‘Sh-t, this is really going to be good.’”

The author checked in with Entertainment Weekly to explain how and why he got involved.

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Sep 25 2012 10:00 AM ET

Robert Kirkman and David Schulner talk new comic 'Clone' -- plus a special preview of the first eight pages

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What’s the difference between writing a comic and writing a TV show? Increasingly, not a whole lot, according to Robert Kirkman. The Walking Dead overlord knows of what he speaks being both the creator of the original comic and one of the scribes responsible for the AMC adaptation (which returns to our screens October 14). “Television has become more and more serialized,” says Kirkman. “It’s moved into much more of a model where there are important plot details that continue from episode to episode. That’s something which has been in comics so long — we’re getting to the point where the two mediums really go hand in hand.”

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Sep 24 2012 02:00 PM ET

'A WRINKLE IN TIME' AND THE JOURNEY OF HOPE LARSON

The 2012 San Diego Comic-Con wrapped up way back in July, but Film Critic Hulk — the gamma-irradiated film theorist who served as EW’s Special Comic-Con Correspondent — isn’t quite finished with the biggest event of the geek year. Read on below for Hulk’s examination of the work of graphic novelist Hope Larson, and check back here tomorrow for Hulk’s final piece of Comic-Con coverage: An in-depth look at Rian Johnson’s Looper.

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WHEN HULK WAS PUTTING TOGETHER PLANS FOR COMIC-CON COVERAGE, HULK IMPLICITLY KNEW THAT HULK WAS GOING TO WRITE ABOUT COMICS.  OH, A MILLION IDEAS WENT THROUGH HULK’S HEAD. THE STATE OF DC’S REBOOT. THE RECENT TRACK OF MARVEL. THE DOMINANCE OF IMAGE. THE RE-EMERGENCE OF VALIANT. EVEN SOMETHING ON THE NOSE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HULK COMICS. BUT IN THE END, NONE OF THEM CAPTURED WHAT HULK FINDS TO BE REMARKABLE ABOUT COMICS. AND SO HULK SOUGHT OUT TO FIND SOMETHING SMALLER THAT COULD PERHAPS SPEAK TO SOMETHING BIGGER. A MICRO AS MACRO EXPLORATION OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE THE MEDIUM UNIQUE. AND WITH THAT, IT SUDDENLY MADE SENSE TO SIMPLY WRITE ABOUT A COMIC BOOK AUTHOR WHOSE WORK EXEMPLIFIES THAT VERY NOTION.

AND LUCKILY, THERE IS HOPE LARSON.

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Sep 24 2012 09:44 AM ET

A precioussss video: Andy Serkis reads 'The Hobbit' as Gollum

Gollum is alive and well and freaking out children in London! At least, his disembodied voice is. Which might be even creepier.

This Saturday, motion capture magician Andy Serkis appeared at an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Lord of the Rings books. And though the actor admitted that he had difficulty getting into character for Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movies — “Twelve years later … I’ve heard that many impersonations [and] people ask me to do that many telephone messages for them. So the first days of getting back into the character are really hard” — Serkis had no trouble busting out his Gollum voice for an audience of rapt kids. Here’s him reading a selection from The Hobbit in that signature nasal rasp:

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Sep 21 2012 05:03 PM ET

Five things we can't wait to see in Guillermo del Toro's TV adaptation of 'The Strain'

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Another vampire series is coming to TV,  and we couldn’t be more excited.

Guillermo del Toro is adapting The Strain Trilogy that he co-wrote with Chuck Hogan as a series for FX. According to Deadline, the two men will pen the pilot episode, and Lost veteran Carlton Cuse is expected to be the showrunner.

I know what you’re thinking, naysayers. Another vampire TV show? But the Strain Trilogy — which includes The StrainThe Fall and The Night Eternal – is a totally different take on the vampire mythology, and honestly, one of the scariest book series I’ve ever read. In a pop-cultural landscape overcrowded with romantic vampires, it’s nice to see true monsters make a return. So in honor of the pilot order, here are five things from the book series we can’t wait to see on TV. (HUGE SPOILER ALERT, of course): READ FULL STORY »

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