William Gibson Announces New Sci-Fi Comic Book (arstechnica.com)

68-year-old science fiction author William Gibson just released a complicated new science fiction comic book, and this weekend Ars Technica proclaimed that "the results are grand". An anonymous reader shares their report: A father and son occupy the new White House as President and Vice President. We never meet dad, but his son -- an evil jerk by the name of Junior Henderson -- has been surgically altered to resemble his grandfather, because Junior is about travel to an alternate Earth in 1945 to take grandpa's place, with the intent of remaking that world more to his liking (and, presumably, to prevent whatever it was that laid waste to the one we start off in)...The world is in ruins. The White House relocated to the ominous-sounding National Emergency Federal District in Montana. They have technology that far outstrips our own...

"It's an alternate-history/cross-worlds story," Gibson writes... "And I wouldn't want to spoil too much of the frame, because that's an inherent part of our narrative. But I will say that one of the first verbal tags we had for the material was 'Band Of Brothers vs. Blackwater.'"
On his Twitter feed, Gibson is also applauding the news that Marvel and DC comics abandoned a two and a half year legal battle to enforce their trademark on the word "superhero" against a publisher in the U.K.

Comments

Nice to see he's still writing

[Anonymous Coward]

Geez, it's been at least 25 years since I read my first Gibson novel. I think I read some of the "trilogy" books in the wrong order, but they were always really intense.

When San Francisco opened their new Bay Bridge, it was a little disappointing. I was kind of hoping that it would turn into its own autonomous trade zone, like in "All Tomorrow's Parties."

Clickbait much?

[DudeTheMath]

Would it really be so hard to put the title of the comic in the story instead of requiring a click through? Anyway, it's Archangel.

Re:Clickbait much?

[wonkey_monkey]

Do not ascribed to clickbaitism what is more easily ascribed to shitty editing.

an exclusive pantheon

[epine]

I'm a digital pack rat. I collect just about anything that raises my eyebrows in my personal wiki. It's a crazy thing, like people who build entire houses out of used beer cans, but for me, at least, it pleasantly passes the time.

I strongly prefer insight over outrage, so I was awfully slow off the mark in finally creating an "asshole" page (subpage "corporate asshole"), but having done so about six months ago, what a boon it has become.

Welcome Marvel.

Welcome DC Comics.

Allow me to make some introductions. On your left is Comcast, Marriott, General Mills, and Sony. You probably know most of those already. On your right there's FIFA, IOC, NCAA, and Voltage Pictures. Another cluster top heavy in the usual suspects. Across the room, there's Gawker Media and the IAB conferring in what appears to be an almost romantic tete-a-tete.

Be sure to pull up a chair while you have the opportunity. Word on the street is that we soon might need to suspend the fire code.

What's that, you say? Where's General Hayden?

Company Men: Torture, treachery, and the CIA

The Panetta Review had reached the same conclusions, on the basis of the same documents, that the Senate report later did. In other words, the CIA's own analysis of its records refuted all the cheerleading claims currently being trotted out by its team of publicists. Had the agency, in obstructing the report and spying on Senate investigators, finally overplayed its hand? "Nothing could be further from the truth," Brennan insisted, following in the footsteps of Michael Hayden, whom the report depicts as a kind of unflappable Pinocchio, fibbing under oath at every opportunity.

Yes, I understand why you might be puzzled not to find him here. The situation concerning Hayden is complicated. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that rot. His was a complex mandate. Many good minds suspect he's rather too full of himself in a bad way, but other perspectives remain credible.

It's not like you can simply go to Wikipedia and read the following:

The word 'superhero' dates to at least 1917. Antecedents of the archetype include such folkloric heroes as Robin Hood, who adventured in distinctive clothing. The 1903 play The Scarlet Pimpernel and its spinoffs popularized the idea of a masked avenger and the superhero trope of a secret identity. Shortly afterward, masked and costumed pulp-fiction characters such as Zorro (1919) and comic strip heroes such as the Phantom (1936) began appearing, as did non-costumed characters with super strength, including Patoruzu (1928), the comic-strip character Popeye (1929) and novelist Philip Wylie's protagonist Hugo Danner (1930).

Feel free to mingle among the assembled company of like minds.

Re: Hey Democrats!

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the fuck are you posting such utter off topic bollocks? Shut the fuck up and stop ruining the Internet for other people.

Gibson

[Webs 101]

"68-year-old science fiction author William Gibson"

What the hell? Cripes, I'm old.