In a span of a two weeks, fans of ribald fantasy stories have been given the gift of three comics featuring plenty of bloody hacking and slashing, foul language, and the triple threat of male, female, and non-human nudity. I joyously sat down last night to read all three. (read more)
Category: Reviews
Reviews of comics, including graphic novels, trade paperbacks, manga, small press and mainstream releases. Also board games and RPGs on occasion.
Cereal
In Cereal, writer Mark Russell takes iconic breakfast cereal mascots and re-imagines them as characters facing terrible dangers in their respective homelands. (read more)
Transformers #1 and #2
The franchise left IDW and landed at Image Comics under the Skybound banner. The move certainly generated some chatter around the store. My personal interest was solely based on the name at the top of the cover: Daniel Warren Johnson. He’s the writer and artist of two of my most recent favourite comics miniseries– Do a Powerbomb! and Murder Falcon— and he takes on those chores for Transformers. (read more)
Solo Gaming
Some of the board games in my collection that have a solo option. There are many games designed with solo play in mind. Some of these games are 1-player only. Some are multiplayer games that come with solo modes. And some are multiplayer games that have unofficial solo rules that have been created by and … Continue reading Solo Gaming
Gideon Falls volume 3
What kept me going in the early issues was the art gymnastics. I feel like the creative team is taking some big risks here with a story that provides almost zero answers for the first--- testing my memory here-- 12 issues. Volume 3 is definitely where the groundwork starts to pay off. (read more)
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