Monthly Archives: September 2008

Bits from Stephen King’s “The Stand” graphic novel

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Unless you live under a rock or your commute is just hell as well as iPod-less, you’re heard about Stephen King’s *cough* The Stand, a thirty issue joint graphic novel venture between the King of Horror and Marvel Comics.  If you “cough* haven’t picked issue #1 up yet (Captain Tripps released on September 12th) and still need convincing, there are a couple of ways to check out the mag:

First, there is a trailer *cough, cough* available here (for some reason Marvel took the vid off their site).  Or take a peek at a free digital comic of The Stand, a sketchbook by artist Mike Perkins and cover artist Lee Bermejo.

If that only wets the whistle, head to King’s site and take a look at another Marvel bit, Dark Tower: Treachery.  More goodies following Roland and his ka-tet.  Kinda makes you want to head on down to the comic book store, eh?  Disease, redemption and *cough* plague nonwithstanding.  Just don’t head down any corpse filled tunnels on the way, dig?

Vampire love comes to HBO

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If anyone out there likes vampires, Louisiana, sex, Anna Paquin and watching TV (and who doesn’t?), here is the show for you.  True Blood. HBO’s new series debuted last Sunday,  adapted by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and taken from Charlaine Harris‘ (From Dead to Worse, Ice Cold Grave) Southern vampire novels.

The story is set in a small Louisiana town, when availability to synthetic blood allows the main vampire lover, Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), to consort with humans without snacking on them.  Oh, but there is plenty of steam, violence, and sexual tension to sink your, well, you get the drift.  Check out the show on HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m.  And if you don’t have HBO and are curious, watch the small 1:30 trailer at the series’s website.