Anita Blake comics

Ok, so once again I apologise for the lack of updates.But I do have an excuse, I spent a lovely Valentines Day in London.And managed to stumble upon the Forbidden Planet megastore! It was as if I'd died and gone to geek heaven...

Whilst alternately squealing like the massive fan-girl that I am, and swooning at the array of merchandise, I came across the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter comicbook.

For those of you who have not yet heard of the Anita Blake novels, they are the trashiest, fastest-paced, sexy horror novels you will ever come across.Little plot, but lots of ultraviolence, angst, and vampire-sex.They've been described as Buffy for grown-ups (a disputable title, but then I worship at Whedon's feet) and whilst they'll never win any prizes for thought-provoking literature, the Anita-verse is an engrossing world that makes for a very fun read.

And now we can experience it in full colour! And as an added incentive, check out this promo of Anita looking tres Michelle Rodriguez.

The Adventures Of Emo-Boy!

I found this in Waterstones at Piccadilly, and the title just made me laugh so hard that I knew I'd have to put it on the site: "Emo Boy: Nobody Cares About Anything Anyway, So Why Don't We All Just Die?"



Here's the Amazon synopsis:

"Poor Emo Boy - he's unpopular, unloved and has no family. Not only does he need to deal with things like pondering suicide and questioning his sexual identity, but he's also got these emo super powers that only seem to bring destruction and disaster, causing everyone to hate him more than they already do."

Isn't that the ultimate emo superpower? The power to make your life even worse?

And as well as the usual poetry-writing, unrequited love, and "Nobody understands me" traumas of the average teenager:

" His first love suffers a head explosion, the football team wants him dead and he got an F in English. No wonder, he's so depressed!"

I think it sounds like a brilliant satire of the state of the nation's youth.And bloody funny.

New Buffy Season Eight!

Whoah.Is that not the ultimate in gothicky magical Willowsex? But even more exciting that everyone's favourite gay witch in a backless black dress is the fact that there is going to be a Buffy season eight!

Well, sort of.

It's gonna be in comicbook form. But if you've ever read any of the Buffy graphic novels, you'll know that thats not a bad thing.

The Spike&Dru and Willow&Tara collections managed to show us a side of the well-loved characters that the show never got to, the untold histories and private lives that fanfiction writers have been creating for years. So hopefully we can look forward to a Buffy thats just as witty, just as action-packed, and even more fan-friendly and indepth as the original show!

For those who thought it was all over when Sunnydale disappeared into a massive hole, thats damn good news!

Official Dark Horse website: http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-111

Paranoid Kitten's Fanfiction

http://dress-fic.livejournal.com has some of the best slash fanfiction that I've ever read.Her Pieces are mostly short and sweet but she has the knack of really capturing the essence of the character, and of making the most unusual pairings seem possible. JD and Dr Cox from Scrubs, anyone? It might seem completely ridiculous now, but when you've read this... dress-fic.livejournal.com/103910.html


There's a plethora of Buffy and Angel ficlets too, with some Harry Potter femslash thrown in for good measure! There's some rather nice Danish (Dana/Alice) L Word femslash too, and a bucketload of other fic from pretty much every tv series imaginable.

It's well worth checking out, especially as Paranoid Kitten is so good at writing that she can make Black Books fic worth reading.Definitely one of my favourite fanfiction writers.