https://nerdspan.com nerdy news for fangirls and fanboys Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://nerdspan.com/trailer-park-4/ https://nerdspan.com/trailer-park-4/#comments Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:00:25 +0000 Ryan Morrissey-Smith https://nerdspan.com/?p=19796 The 4th edition of Trailer Park features a documentary about a film very close to my heart – Night of the Living Dead, some Spike Jonze weirdness in Her, an adaptation of a novel – The Book Thief, and possibly the most unrequested sequel/spinoff since Big Momma’s House 2 – Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/trailer-park-4/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-r-i-p-d-2013/ https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-r-i-p-d-2013/#comments Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:37:35 +0000 Steve Harcourt https://nerdspan.com/?p=19716 Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, R.I.P.D. brings together Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges in a tale of justice in the afterlife. With this being another comic adaptation for Reynolds after Green Lantern, would he be more successful this time around?]]> https://nerdspan.com/movie-review-r-i-p-d-2013/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/interview-with-joe-abercrombie-on-being-adapted-to-comics/ https://nerdspan.com/interview-with-joe-abercrombie-on-being-adapted-to-comics/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:00:49 +0000 Mackenzie and Walker https://nerdspan.com/?p=12121 David here, Nerdspanners! Joe Abercrombie is one of the decade’s most outstanding fantasy writers. Robert and I have both been captive devotees since The Blade Itself, the first of his award-winning initial trilogy First Law trilogy, hit shelves in 2006. Since then, his second-world fantasy setting has been the star of six books and a [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/interview-with-joe-abercrombie-on-being-adapted-to-comics/feed/ 1 https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-roundtable-a-wrinkle-in-time/ https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-roundtable-a-wrinkle-in-time/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:00:04 +0000 M Morse https://nerdspan.com/?p=10515     Greetings, Nerdspan Nation! Welcome to the first edition of Nerdspan’s Graphic Novel Roundtable. Each month we’ll select a work to read and discuss, and for the inaugural column we’ve chosen Hope Larson’s adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s classic Young Adult novel, A Wrinkle in Time. We hope you enjoy reading the discussion as much [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-roundtable-a-wrinkle-in-time/feed/ 0 https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-a-wrinkle-in-time/ https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-a-wrinkle-in-time/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:00:37 +0000 Joe Grunenwald https://nerdspan.com/?p=2531 To call Hope Larson’s graphic novel of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time an adaptation doesn’t feel right. Larson’s work stays so true to the source material, right down to the chapter breaks and titles, that it feels more accurate to call the book a translation. Larson took L’Engle’s text and translated it [...]]]> https://nerdspan.com/graphic-novel-review-a-wrinkle-in-time/feed/ 1