The Marquis: Inferno
When I’m reading comics, I’ve noticed I find myself focusing more on dialogue & story than on art. Obviously the art’s a draw, but I Continue Reading
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Cosplay, Satire and Sexism – Analogue: A Hate Story is Awesome
Books are awesome. But making a book an interactive experience, making it leave the page and enter the land of games, is much more difficult. Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Second Sons
On the surface, “Second Sons” wasn’t that much different from the last couple weeks of Game of Thrones: lots of set-up, checking around the world, Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: The Bear and the Maiden Fair
We need to talk about Theon Greyjoy. Well. That’s not entirely accurate. We don’t need to talk about Theon Greyjoy. I just feel compelled to Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: Kissed By Fire
Welcome to a Dorkadia review of Game of Thrones! Reuben is writing these from the perspective of a book reader & show watcher, but focusing Continue Reading
It’s Gonna Be Totally Awesome – A Very Potter Musical
About four years ago at my last job, a coworker introduced me to A Very Potter Musical. AVPM, which is a series of performances based Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: And Now His Watch Is Ended
Welcome to a Dorkadia review of Game of Thrones! Reuben is writing these from the perspective of a book reader & show watcher, but focusing Continue Reading
Kick-Ass 2 Could Have Kicked Ass Better
Contains spoilers for Kick-Ass and minor spoilers for the newly released Kick-Ass 2 (trade paperback). Also some foul language and discussion of sensitive topics like Continue Reading
Winter’s Been Here
At the time you’re reading this, Game of Thrones’s third-season premiere has come and gone. Blood has been spilled, pithy witticisms have been uttered, and Continue Reading
Archive Binge: Achewood
When I moved up to Seattle in 2007, my new housemates gave me one of the weirder ultimatums I’ve ever experienced. “You can stay here Continue Reading
Emerald City Comic Con: That Just Happened!
Well, this year’s ECCC is over, staggering to the finish line in a haze of energy drink cocktails and cosplay-related hairspray fumes, tripping over Continue Reading
Review: The Long Price Quartet
Let me preface this review by saying that I have been wanting to review this series since I started writing for Dorkadia. It is in Continue Reading
Back In Black: Mockingbird, by Chuck Wendig
Some six months ago, Dorkadia reviewed Chuck Wending’s Blackbirds, a nasty, dead-baby-hilarious little thriller about a hitchhiking con artist who knows when you’re going Continue Reading
When The Final Girl Kicks The Killer’s Ass – Reviewing Hack/Slash
A serial killer stalks his prey through the dark forest. A teenage schoolgirl is waiting for his knife. He corners her, bloodthirsty grin under his Continue Reading
Author Archives: Guy Gavriel Kay
I was talking to my dad not too long ago about a book on medieval history we’d both read, and he brought up the fact Continue Reading
Forget A Memory of Light
Last week the final book of The Wheel of Time arrived in bookstores. I picked it up on my lunchbreak from work, and three days Continue Reading
Free At Last – Wheel of Time
When I was 11, back in 1990, my father brought home a big blue book. I liked the art on the front quite a bit, Continue Reading
Review: The Black Company (Books of the North)
As regular readers of this site might have guessed, I’m kind of an aficionado of fantasy best described, not without a shrug and Continue Reading
One Internet to Rule Them All
It’s been a very Hobbitastic week around here. We’ve had a great look at LotR games, both video and roleplaying, an essay on the original works of Continue Reading
On the Shoulders of Giants
About three thousand years ago, when fellow Dorkadia staffer Hannah and I first became friends, J.R.R. Tolkien came up in conversation, I was first informed Continue Reading
Who are The Boys?
The Boys is one of my favorite comics from the last five or so years, written by Garth Ennis and with art primarily by Darick Continue Reading