Giving Wings to Once Upon a Time: Why you should read fantasy to kids

READ on March 28 Jackie Gamber gives us her thoughts on a subject that has been popping up lately, kids who don’t like to read Books, and why we should be reading more to kids.  

WPR Interview – Steven Shrewsbury

READ on January 6 I’ve talked to the man before about his book Thrall (Our Review), now that he’s released a couple of new short stories, I decided to see what it was all about. I am pleased with the responses of my inquiry.  

Who Wants Not One, Not Two, but EIGHT eBooks, Free from WPR and Seventh Star Press?

READ on January 4 2012 is the year of giving, and lets start off by giving you 8 different short stories in eBook (Kindle or Nook) format from our favorite publisher Seventh Star Press!  

Chapter Tease from George RR Martin’s Next A Song of Ice and Fire novel, The Winds of Winter

READ on December 29 For those of you who don’t stalk the mans LiveJournal, he’s updated it with some juicy…words in well structured sentences, that form paragraphs and into a whole chapter of Theon Greyjoy. Here is how the man himself explains the chapter, who we all know might rewrite the whole damn thing, or get rid of it during the next 5 years to... 

Would You Read Comic Books As…Prose Fiction?

READ on December 21 That’s right, Marvel is doing away with the purty pictures and encapsulating some of their best comics in…books?  

Starship Troopers – The Remake

WATCH on December 21 Apparently someone thinks that the classic sci-fi movie (book is better) directed by Paul Verhoeven needs to be made all over again.  

Ender’s Game Movie Starring Harrison Ford?

WATCH on December 7 Yes please!  

John Carter – Trailer #2

WATCH on December 4 The first theorem of movie trailers states “if you take tons of action, and mix it with a rendition of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Kashmir’, you are guaranteed instant success”. I hope to Crom this remains true.  

Katsura Hoshino’s Art Book Headed Stateside

READ on November 30 Viz Media just announced that a 100 page art book by the creator of D.Gray-Man is headed to the US next week. I am excite.  

Daddy Time – Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

FEATURED on November 28 For years now, three to be exact, my wife and I have been purchasing books for our eldest daughter that are WAAAAAY out of her reading age…considering she doesn’t read at all right now and is still learning letters, just about anything that isn’t a printed picture or piece of art is outside of her reading group, but that doesn’t... 

Daddy Time – Howl’s Moving Castle

FEATURED on November 21 I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I haven’t seen every Miyazaki movie. There I’ve said it and I feel much better for getting it off my chest. There is a plus side to this revelation, and that is that I now have a chance to watch the entire collection of Studio Ghibli for the first time with my family.  

Year of the Black Rainbow – Review

READ on November 13 The album, Year of the Black Rainbow, has been out and in my hands for well over a year (damn near 18 months now) and I just this week got around to reading the novel that came with my Deluxe Edition. The shame of this has only now struck home as I have finished the book by Claudio Sanchez and Peter David and am now kicking myself for waiting so long.  

“Star Trek: New Frontier” – Series Review

READ on November 10 It has been a long while since I had the opportunity to write. Some of you may have missed me (I’m pretty humble in that regard), but the truth is I’ve missed it. “Star Trek: New Frontier” is a book series primarily written and created by Peter David (you may have heard of him through his long tenure on “Incredible Hulk”).... 

RLR #112 – Red Wings

FEATURED on November 7 There are times where the subject of the show is meaningless.  

AngelKiller Book Update

READ on October 26 The new book series we’re eagerly awaiting for.  

Viz Media Digital Releases: October 3rd – 10th

READ on October 4 If you’re like me, you spend a small fortune on manga each week, thankfully with Viz’s digital manga app and web-based reader it’s become cheaper and easier for me to get my fix.  

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – Trailer

WATCH on September 14 I’ll keep my comments on this series to myself…but it looks like I’ve got a hard night of drinking ahead of me come November 18th.  

RLR #102 – Say Nota to Shota

FEATURED on August 22 Wow, after realizing that one day my children might be able to search the annals of WPR and discover some of the stuff I talk about on this here podcast, I still manage to make it controversial and the jokes just keep writing themselves.  

Daddy Time #2 – Winnie The Pooh

FEATURED on August 4 Being a fan of the yellowish teddy bear, I knew that I would enjoy this movie immensely, the trick was selling my oldest daughter on the premise of sitting in the theater and watching a movie featuring one of my all time favorite Disney cast of characters.  

William Gibson’s Neromancer Greenlit for Movie Treatment

WATCH on July 28 The godfather of all things cyberpunk, William Gibson, wrote a novel back in the early 1980s that would go on to inspire science fiction writers and storylines for years to come…and now we’re going to get a movie version of the triple-crown sci-fi tale of Henry Case.