Traitor

Fantasy author Holly Black returns to Elfhame, the world of The Stolen Heir, next year with The Prisoner’s Throne—exploring the popular character of Oak in the first novel written from his point of view. In io9's exclusive excerpt, Oak’s stuck behind bars... and having some conflicted feelings about what to do next.An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen,…

via Paramount As a general rule of thumb, almost every single one of the action movies regarded among the finest ever made features at least one instance of the hero using a gun to mow down reams of interchangeable goons, but not once during Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible does Tom Cruise use a firearm. It’s a fascinatingly overlooked fact, one that obviously wasn’t kept up through the rest of the franchise, but it just goes to show you don’t need to bust out the heavy artillery in order to deliver…

Karama Horne and Alitha E Martinez create a Black Panther story, that sees T'Challa called out by his father, T'Chaka, as a traitor to Wakanda.Today sees the publication of Marvel's Voices: Wakanda, focusing stories principally by Black comic book creators, on the heritage of the nation of Wakanda, the fictional home to the Black Panther, indeed as now established, a long legacy of Black Panthers before T'Challa. And it's to his ancestors, former Black Panthers, that T'Challa turns for advice over recent political changes…