Fables Encyclopedia
Hardcover | Kindle Edition
256 pages
Introduction by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Written by Jess Nevins
Cover by Adam Hughes
Vertigo Comics
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Cover Price: $39.99

The Fables Encyclopedia, by Jess Nevins, covers issues 1 – 121, and 1001 Nights of Snowfall. After only a few pages, it became clear to me that this is an indispensible tome, serving to compliment, and enhance the issues it covers. Hopefully, there’ll be a second volume in another decade or so.

It’s loaded with panels from the comics, helping to refresh memories for more obscure characters, and includes enriching sidebar comments from Bill Willingham “” check out his notes on the Hope character “” cryptically cool! Plus, there are also fourteen pages of issue by issue annotations, as well as lots of behind-the-scenes tidbits, and clever revelations, such as artist Mark Buckingham‘s inspiration for Tom Harrow.

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth, who star together in the upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World, made an appearance recently on BBC TV’s The Graham Norton Show, where Portman talked about the huge different in height between her and her co-star. The actors then stood up to show the audience that Hemsworth, who plays the mighty Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is about a foot and a half taller than Portman (wearing 4-inch heels!), who plays Thor’s human love interest Jane.

This seemed like a great time for host Graham Norton to bust out the Thor and Jane action figures to show the difference in their heights, as well, to great humorous effect.

Check out the video of this here below.

We saw the trailer tease recently, and now the first full trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past has made its way online.

The movie sees Bryan Singer return to the director’s chair for the first time since 2003’s X2: X-Men United, and sees his world and characters collide with the world and characters of Matthew Vaughn’s 20011 prequel, X-Men: First Class.

You can check out the first trailer for Days of Future Past below now!

Last week, we told you about the special theatrical screening and live panel with the stars for Michael Dougherty‘s Trick “˜r Treat taking place on October 28 in Hollywood, CA. During last night’s post-screening panel, which included director Dougherty and stars Dylan Baker (who we interviewed here), Brian Cox, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, and Quinn Lord, a sequel to the Halloween horror anthology was announced!

The news that Legendary Pictures would be doing Trick ‘r Treat 2 was revealed during an audience Q&A session at the panel, which was hosted by Seth Green. A title card for the sequel was also unveiled (see image here at top).

The theatrical screening and the panel were both live-streamed, though there were some technical difficulties throughout the night with the stream. We had our man The Iceman on the scene at the event at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood – see his photo here below from the panel.

RIPT Apparel has two designs on sale today, both of which are mash-ups of Doctor Who and Dick Tracy by studown: “Doctor Tracy 10” (at left) and “Doctor Tracy 11″ (at right).

The shirts went on sale at RIPT today, Tuesday, October 29, 2013, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The t-shirt is available in men’s (through 3XL), women’s, and youth sizes for $10 each. Kids sizes are $10 (Girls, Toddlers, and Onesies); Hoodies for $38 (in Men/Unisex sizes). See images on product page for shirt colors. You can also get the design on coasters for $25; iphone (4/4s & 5) cases for $18; prints 18″x24″ for $20 and 24″x32” for $40; and headphones for $40. If you purchase both designs, you’ll save $1.