The DM of the Rings is a webcomic by Shamus Young which imagines the characters of The Lord of the Rings movies as players in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign who consistently refuse to stay in-character.

 

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Just to tide us over till the Third Season (Series) of Torchwood, some season 1 & 2 bloopers. Enjoy.

New production stills of Josh Brolin in Jonah Hex the supernatural western based on the DC Comic. The film also stars John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Michael Shannon. Great cast. It opens Aug. 6, 2010.

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Sadly I just found out, appropriately enough while I was at the Library, that SF/Fantasy author David Eddings has died.

I can’t tell you how many times I read his Belgariad & Malloreon series. He made his characters so real, that sometimes the story became secondary. RIP Mr. Eddings.

WOW!! Just Wow!! Embiggin this and press the HQ button, then wipe the drool from the side of your mouth.

Republic leaders have traveled to Alderaan to engage in promised peace talks with the Sith Empire. The most powerful Jedi have accompanied them to safeguard against an Imperial deception. The Empires real motive, however, was simply to lure the Republics strongest defenders away from Coruscant and set the stage for an audacious attack. Under the command of Lord Angral, the Sith fleet approaches the Republics capital planet for the first time in centuries. In advance of the fleet, the strongest Sith Warriors have flown a stolen Republic ship into Coruscants orbit. Their mission is critical to destroy the planets defense grid mainframe hidden in the heart of the Jedi Temple.

This looks really good. HBO good. Dark, funny, deep – wonderfully nuanced characters. Has nothing to do with SF or Fantasy, it’s just good TV. Take a half hour and check it out. Rated TV-14, edited from the original which will be TV-MA when it airs.

BBC America has announced further details about its summer Torchwood and Doctor Who events.

The Chicago Tribune’s Mo Ryan has compiled all the info at her blog, so what are you still doing here? Get over there for the rundown!

Ordinary people saved Superman’s house. Best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer started the charitable organization Ordinary People Save the World in an effort to raise enough money to restore the home where Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.

Our goal was to raise $50,000 to work on the outside,” he said. “In the end, we raised $101,000. So work is now going on in the inside as well. It was just beautiful. For me, especially with all the petty infighting that goes on in comics, this was the best everyone-together victory in the comic book world in a long time.”

Meltzer said his main motivation for saving the house was simply the history. “Joe Shuster’s house was in such bad condition, they had to knock it down. We didn’t want that happening to the Siegel one,” he said. “And luckily, friends like Jim [Lee], and Neil [Gaiman], and Brian [Bendis], and Jeph [Loeb] and Geoff [Johns], and so many others thought the same. They donated the best stuff. We just had the site.”

As a result, the Siegel house will have an official ribbon-cutting ceremony this summer to unveil the restored home to the public.

Now that the Siegel project has exceeded Meltzer’s expectations, he’s hoping to continue the work of Ordinary People Change the World by raising money for a new cause.City Year.

For more details about City Year, visit OrdinaryPeopleChangetheWorld.com and watch the video.