New Comics, No Capes – Part One
Non-superhero comics seem to be really picking up lately, with major publishers like DC and Image really pushing some innovative, interesting titles. Within the last Continue Reading
Non-superhero comics seem to be really picking up lately, with major publishers like DC and Image really pushing some innovative, interesting titles. Within the last Continue Reading
Daylight Savings has ended, which means that Seattle can stop pretending to give us clement weather and get on with the natural cold grey dark. Continue Reading
I wanted to write something today Halloween-esque, (other than my review of Halloween costumes this year!) and the first thing to come to mind was Continue Reading
Jonathon Coulton’s music is an instantly notable part of modern nerd culture. ‘Still Alive’ is one of the most recognizable songs to come from a Continue Reading
“FANTASY EVENT OF THE YEAR” is ad-copy noise, so blaring and ubiquitous as to be totally meaningless. Whose year are we even talking about? But Continue Reading
I’m a sucker for alternate history and parallel worlds. You remember how bad Sliders was? I loved the first few seasons of that show. I Continue Reading
Of all the strange and specific things about the canon of HP Lovecraft – the Cthulhu Mythos, which has no shortage of strange – the Continue Reading
When we were approached by Titan books asking of we wanted to review a new Sherlock Holmes novel, it piqued my interest. When I read Continue Reading
I will freely admit that before reading the most recent collection of Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl comics, ‘Purple Nurples,‘ I really only knew Continue Reading
We are gathered here today to mourn the death of one John Constantine, who passed away earlier this year after a long battle with cancellation. Continue Reading
I reviewed The Killing Moon back in June, and enjoyed it a great deal, both for its disparity from a lot of my fantasy reading Continue Reading
Pacific Rim is a love letter to Godzilla and a visual feast. However, it’s still a big budget action movie full of explosions and monsters Continue Reading
Most Song of Ice and Fire fans know by now that George R.R. Martin had a long and fruitful career before he ever turned the Continue Reading
When Titan Books approached us about reviewing The Guild: The Official Companion book, I chuckled, because who would have ever thought a web series required Continue Reading
It’d be a reach, not to mention an injustice, to say that the superhero is a wholly American concept. After all, people have been looking Continue Reading
When we were approached by the friendly folks over at Titan Books to review a copy of one of their new releases, Ecko Rising, I Continue Reading
Spec-fic author, noted degenerate, and Dorkadia favorite Chuck Wendig posted a good blog piece last week, On the Subject of Diversifying Your Bookshelves. Short version: Continue Reading
This post about A Song of Ice and Fire contains details of events through A Dance With Dragons. Spoilers ahead! A Song of Ice and Fire is Continue Reading
There’s one real issue with Game of Thrones’s habit of making Episode 9 of each season a powerful, high-budget shocker – they have to follow Continue Reading
Warning! Major spoilers for Season 3, Episode 9 of Game of Thrones follow, as well as videos with some truly inspired use of the English Continue Reading
I read A Storm of Swords about nine years ago, in a public library, because I had to start reading immediately, to find out what Continue Reading