Fangoria Web Site Brought Back to Life

Since I covered this so extensively before, I thought I'd mention that the folks at Fangoria magazine have gotten their web site back up and running. Welcome back to the land of the living. (Note: If you were a forums user, you apparently have to create a new account and can't use your old one.)

Now, if they could just pay a little attention to their big brother, Starlog.com, which has fallen and can't get up (image at bottom).

A New Cinefantastique? It's Rumors Time

Cinefantastique has a web site at cinefantastiqueonline.com. So if you're surfing the web and you discover cfqmag.com, you might naturally wonder if there's another site with a similar monicker. (After all, cinefantastique.com is currently just a blank placeholder.)

And yet: At the cfqmag.com site, there is a note dated November 14, 2009, that reads: "At present, this website is a placeholder for future construction. In the meantime, visit www.cinefantastiqueonline.com for news and reviews of science fiction film and television."

Someone has already posted a response to the site, asking if this means there will be a return to print for Cinefantastique magazine. No response yet. It might, after all, just reflect plans to replace cinefantastiqueonline.com with the shorter cfqmag.com URL. But it's tantalizing nonetheless, especially in this age of a dearth of good science fiction media magazines.

A Little (Starlog) Background Music, Please

Ha. Just a day after I noted that the background on the Starlog.com web site was really a Fangoria background and not a Starlog background, well, there's a whole new background and even a bit of a web site redesign for the Starloggers. (I know, I know, it had nothing to do with what I wrote; after all, you don't redesign a commercial web site in less than 24 hours. But I like the coincidence.)