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Death Ray #14! At last! How shiny…how wonderful…
This message is well overdue, 'cos we're already in the shops, but here's your monthly (ish) notice to get out and buy a copy of Death Ray, the broadest, most voluble, most exciting science fiction rag this side of Betelgeuse. Come to us for Alan Moore, for Marvel comics, for Urban Fantasy, for news from the sets of The X-Files and The Dark Knight, for Alan Garner, and for much, much more.
Find out what the greatest living comics writer finds "homophobic, vaguely racist, and incredibly dumb". Why does Alan Garner find writing a "pathological condition"? What's Chris Nolan doing, making Batman "a superhero version of Sherlock Holmes"? And are the X-Files aliens really just "dentists and sex offenders"? David Duchovny thinks so… All the answers, in Death Ray.
Plus! How to clone your own Sontaran (or how Millennium FX did it, anyway)! What Jes and Guy got up to in 1951! (Reading Isaac Asimov and watching The Thing From Another World, by the look of it.) Outgoing Death Ray deputy Jes Bickham's farewell to science fiction (or to us, anyway – we salute you, sir!). A 10-minute lecture on the life and works of C.S Lewis ("so lovely")! James Moran! M. Night Shyamalan! Julian Doyle! And Aslan, the Hulk, Stephen Baxter, Grant Morrison and Frank Darabont all face the fierce critical scrutiny of the Death Ray Five!
And! Everything you ever wanted to know about the urban fantasy chic that's making the bookshelves creak so… We spoke direct to Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, Lilith Saintcrow and Jennifer Rardin. Plus, Jes flies all the way to New York and runs giddy about the halls of Marvel Comics, stopping only to speak with Tom Brevoort and Joe Quesada; these guys really do watch the watchmen!
Not to mention! A retrospective of Frank Frazetta, why we should still be reading Jack Vance, the shame of bad science, and Streets of Fire (the film not the Springsteen song, although that's good too). Give the shopkeeper three Earth pounds and ninety-nine Earth pence, and he/she'll give you all of this and more. Is this value? It's beautiful!
Matt Bielby May 01, 2008, 10:46:27
