We’ve seen crossovers, and some of them are really great and some of them tend to miss the mark. Moonstone Books comes to the table today with a crossover that not only has me scratching my head, but has me ready to plunk down my money to pick it up and read it. Are you ready for the Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak team-up?
Browsing: books
Though we read a lot of comic book at Major Spoilers, there are these other word books that are just as fascinating and just as interesting (sometimes more so) than what we find in the four color press. Marvel has announced a new prose books featuring the very popular Avengers.
It bounced around the Internet for a few days, but it looks like the truth has been revealed – Switch Press/Capstone is making a young adult novel featuring everyone’s favorite investigative reporter, Lois Lane.
Press Release A solar powered girl. A ballerina vigilante. A boy with an alien living inside his brain. A werewolf with confidence issues. A girl with a black hole for a heart. Five teenagers, each with their own unique abilities, are gathered by veteran hero Doc Silence to become their generation’s super-team. But when they find out someone else is building their own monsters to change the world, will the Indestructibles be ready in time? Or will their inexperience be their downfall?
Moonstone Books has announced it is rereleasing Will Murray’s Doc Savage: The Frightened Fish that hasn’t been in print in over 20 years.
DK revealed the exclusive LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side book Emperor Palpatine Minifigure, and he looks pretty wicked.
There are a number of people who didn’t get what Grant Morrison was doing on his run of Batman. Some hated it, and others loved it. In a new book, Sequart Organization breaks it all down for the lovers, the haters and the indifferent.
Press Release Award-winning publisher Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce the June debut of JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL: THE NOVELIZATION, the second in a planned series of three hardcovers that reprint the prose novel adaptations of fan-favorite Henson properties. The book follows the recent April release of JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH: THE NOVELIZATION and will be followed by the August release of JIM HENSON’S STORYTELLER: THE NOVELIZATION.
Press Release The Bronze Goddess of Freedom Flies Again thanks to two Companies known for independent creations and innovative storytelling. LIBERTY GIRL by Barry Reese, adapted from and based on works by Dennis Mallonee, is now available from Pro Se Productions via a license with Heroic Publishing.
So the mystery project that Bad Robot Productions teased us with a few weeks ago is finally revealed, and it’s a book.
Press Release Zetabella Publishing announced today the latest in a long of string of masterpieces, Goblinopolis: The Tol Chronicles Book 1 by Robert G. Ferrell will be released at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, Texas on August 29 through September 2. Just in time for the 71st WorldCon, Ferrell alongside Zetabella is excited to present a limited edition version of the comedic tale of magic, mayhem and technocracy.
Press Release Sequart Research & Literacy Organization (sequart.org) is proud to announce the release of its newest book of comics analysis, Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan, which is edited by Chad Nevett.
Press Release King Oblivion, Ph.D., founder and overlord of the International Society of Supervillains, takes us through the fine points of destroying the hopes and dreams of superheroes with his new book The Supervillain Field Manual: How to Conquer (Super) Friends and Incinerate People (Skyhorse Publishing, July 2013). Oblivion first guided us through the sinister steps of becoming a supervillain in The Supervillain Handbook—but with great power comes great responsibility, and there’s so much more to learn.
Marvel has teamed with Hyperion books to release novels showcasing two of the company’s heroines. One, The She-Hulk Diaries, has Jennifer Walters managing her personal, professional and super life. Does this foray into a new format work for the character? Major Spoilers cracked open the cover and had a read.