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At the DC Meet The Publishers panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, DC co-publisher Jim Lee announced plans for the company to launch a new line of books in the style of "evergreen" stories like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. Though Lee called it a "soft announcement" of the line, he said that DC is looking[...]

A genderfluid character, their appearance and powers were based on the Endless from Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Except, it seems, no one had thought to tell Neil Gaiman Who has, as part of his deal with DC Comics over the series, has maintained the right of refusal as to how DC Comics exploit Sandman and characters created[...]

Doctor Endless pulls their look and powers from the Sandman's Endless characters, as created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg. The character will appear in Suicide Squad: The Black Files #1 out in August — one of a number of new characters in a story written by Jai Nitz and drawn by Scot Eaton. Sebastian[...]

If you ask a fan of Starz's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods who their favorite character is, don't be surprised if they tell you it's…the music Whether it's how Kris Jensen's song Torture gives us insight into the tortured, troubled soul of a just-paroled Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) or how The Band's The Weight offers[...]

Even with Starz’s American Gods wrapping-up its highly-watched  and critically-acclaimed first season only a few weeks ago and Emmy buzz growing...

After a "calm-before-the-storm" penultimate episode that slowed-downed the action a bit our American Gods 'Come To Jesus' recap finds a number...

So Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) and Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) are having to speed-up their road trip a little bit...but then again, you'd think that

So stop me if you've heard this one before: a leprechaun, a dead woman and a man with a cab looking for his Jinn walk into a bar...and now find their way

Did I mention he's also missing his lucky coin? How did he get to this point? Is there more to the Mad Sweeney/Laura dynamic than just condescension and disdain? To tell the tale of Mad Sweeney, Executive Producers Bryan Fuller and Michael Green had a particular idea in mind when it came to casting the role[...]

The crowdfunded donation campaign to get famous author Neil Gaiman, who amongst many things wrote the currently very clickable novel behind the hit Starz show American Gods, to perform a live reading of the menu for restaurant The Cheesecake Factory is just nearing 1/5 of its total $510,000 goal To celebrate the milestone, Gaiman intends[...]

For the last several days, we've been avoiding writing a clickbait news story about American Gods author Neil Gaiman potentially reading the menu from The Cheesecake Factory for charity, while watching our colleagues in the entertainment media fall one by one like dominoes (if dominoes came with intrusive pop-up ads that freeze your web browser)[...]

Submitted for your consideration by Bleeding Cool contributor Ray Flook: Don’t you hate it when your “dead” ex-wife surprises you in your motel room after

We've got three clips from tonight's American Gods on STARZ. They delve a little deeper into the relationship between Shadow (Ricky Whittle) and Larua

Author Neil Gaiman has had quite a few of his projects come to the big and small screen From the fantastic American Gods on STARZ right now, to the beautiful Coraline which introduced us to Laika, to the underrated Stardust which really deserved more love than it got. The next Gaiman property to make it to[...]

Submitted for your consideration by Bleeding Cool contributor, Ray Flook his thoughts on the latest episode of American Gods. So by the end of last week's

The third episode of STARZ fantasy Gods filled drama American Gods hasn't even aired yet, but the cable network has officially ordered a second season. "Bryan Fuller, Michael Green and Neil Gaiman have evolved the art form of television narratively, structurally and graphically with American Gods, and we're thrilled to be working again with these artists as[...]

Submitted for your consideration by Bleeding Cool contributor, Ray Flook his thoughts on the latest episode of American Gods. So for those of you who

That's Why All Revelations Are Suspect": Taking Confessions @ STARZ's American Gods Media Day by Ray Flook American Gods descended upon New York City last week as STARZ's Programming Publicity & Corporate Communications Team turned The Langham Hotel into a makeshift "media pulpit" to preach the "gospel" of Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel to the congregation of gathered press. Okay…enough[...]

The long anticipated tv adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal "American Gods" 2001 novel has finally arrived on STARZ  After leaving the CBS Star Trek: Discovery show, series runner Bryan Fuller able to devote his full attention to the strange and wondrous tale, bringing the old as mountain characters to life  This will be a lengthy[...]

Ray Flook writes for Bleeding Cool… STARZ's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel American Gods premieres on Sunday, April 30th, so ahead of that the cable channel has started rolling-out the public relations machine with media junkets and early access to the first season's first four episodes…and Bleeding Cool made the cut. For those not familiar with[...]

This scene from the upcoming Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods features Shadow Moon's (Ricky Whittle) cellmate Low Key Lyesmith (Jonathan Tucker) giving a good piece of advice: "Don't piss of those bitches at airports"… Though the book was written almost 16 years ago, that advice looks pretty sound today with things happening on[...]

Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, the story follows Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) as he gets out of prison and hooks up with Mr Wednesday (Ian McShane) in a battle of Gods The titles were done by Elastic. American Gods debuts on Starz April 30th. https://youtu.be/G4g8rUezsig Starz has released the opening title sequence for their upcoming[...]

Bryan Fuller, showrunner for Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, has been posting new American Gods character posters to his Twitter account We have Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon, Ian McShane as Mr Wednesday, Emily Browning as Laura Moon, Yetide Badaki as Bilquis, Crispin Glover as Mr World, Peter Stormare as Czernobog, Orlando Jones as Mr[...]

A new trailer has been released for Starz' adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods The new series from Bryan Fuller and Michael Green stars Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Gillian Anderson, Crispen Glover and Emily Browning, but as you can see from the trailer, there are a lot more folks involved and it looks like it's going[...]

When American Gods debuts on Starz on April 30th, fans of the bestselling book by Neil Gaiman may notice some differences from the source material One of those differences, as noted by Bleeding Cool back in December, will be a new character named Vulcan who addresses America's fixation on firearms But there will be some[...]

 Countless other examples I could name. So, when Neil Gaiman tweeted earlier this morning, "The @DaveMcKean illustrated American Gods is… well, *I* want a copy…", I clicked through, and… well, yes, I want one too Very impressive indeed  Even as celebrated as Gaiman and Dave McKean have been as collaborators since the publication of Violent Cases in 1987, I'm[...]

I marveled at how quickly Neil Gaiman was able to make me connect with a character that in retrospect I had almost nothing in common with, but I did connect with him and felt his anxiety and then pain as he went on the trip of discovery. Starz is putting together a TV series based on[...]

Photo by Kendall Whitehouse Neil Gaiman has just entered into an exclusive, multi-year first look agreement with FremantleMedai North America FremantleMedia is already adapting American Gods and now provides the groundwork to adapt any of Gaiman's wide ranging works from novels to short stories, etc for television The deal also allows for adaptation of projects involving[...]

I will also forever associate Power Rangers with Neil Gaiman We took a vacation to House on the Rocks, which is a Frank Lloyd Wright house, which is featured in American Gods and there's a museum of the strange at the end of it with a big carousal; I went to this place and we[...]

Whatever happened to the caped crusader? He's been stuck in Neil Gaiman's brain for almost three decades, it seems, though Gaiman is almost ready to tell his story Asked on Twitter if there's a Batman story Gaiman wants to tell, the Sandman scribe responded: There is a Batman story I have wanted to tell for 28[...]