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Wizards without Coats: The Lottery

July 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m never so lucky!   < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > OMG! These are my numbers! In this week’s Wizards without Coats, we’re left to consider whether artist V Shane has the sort of humour only found among roleplayers. They say the chaos of a siege is a bit of a lottery, that chance and fortune […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

Wizards without Coats: Your resurrection plan

July 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine a fantasy campaign in which conditional resurrection was a thing.   < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext >  Look… I am sorry, but being mangled and killed by an umber hulk, just isn’t covered under his resurrection plan! Uh-oh! Bad news about your resurrection plan. Why is that insurance policies typically fail to cover the very […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: humour, v shane, wizards without coats

Amazon launch Jet City Comics

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Retail giant Amazon has announced its new imprint today, a business called Jet City Comics, that’ll allow its publishing arm to get into comic books and graphic novels. We already have some of the early line up for Jet City Comics. An original comic adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s story “Meathouse Man,” illustrated by Raya […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics Tagged With: amazon, George R. R. Martin

Will Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Universe create a DC Universe?

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You’ve seen the Marvel films and know how they all live in the same “Universe.” We had the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents throughout and then the Avengers as the wrap. Will DC manage something similar? Will Superman act the starting movie that creates a world the others live in? If so then attention must turn to Guillermo […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: DC Universe, Guillermo del Toro, justice league dark, Superman, swamp thing, zatanna

Games group signs deal with IDW Publishing

July 9, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

IDW Publishing is the fourth largest comic publisher in the States. They’ve an impressive range of comic book titles including Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, True Blood, Locke & Key, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2000 AD’s Judge Dread, Star Trek, Godzilla, G.I. Joe and the Transformers. The deal signed with The Powell Group gives […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: IDW publishing

R.I.P.D. gets a longer trailer

July 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Based on the Dark Horse comic come a movie of the same name. R.I.P.D. stars Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon and Mary-Louise Parker. Ryan plays a dead cop who ends up in R.I.P.D. and partnered with the 200 year dead Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges). Together they are a supposed to track down spirits who […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies Tagged With: dark horse, jeff bridges, Kevin Bacon, trailers

Superhero Week: Pandora

July 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The DC Universe is gearing up for the Trinity War, the story beginning in July’s Justice League books from Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire. It’s been brewing ever since Flashpoint and the birth of the New 52. One of the trinity, along with the Phantom Stranger and The Question, is Pandora. She is believed to […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: dc comics, pandora, superhero week

Superhero Week: The webcomic rundown

July 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’ve already had a whole bunch of free to download superhero comics and superhero RPG material but what if that’s too much effort? What if you don’t want to download anything this Superhero Week? If that’s the case then this list of free to enjoy webcomics might do the trick! Grrl Power A comic about […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: superhero week

Superhero Week: The sexiest superheroes

July 6, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Here are some sexy superhero costumes. Ah wait, there’s a catch. These have been drawn by Anna to show how male superheroes would look if they were designed like female superheroes. Fair do? In the raging debate on Drawing the impossible? Fully dressed Superheroines a common comment was from people who didn’t mind skimpy female […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics Tagged With: batman, Captain America, spider-man, superhero week, superheroes, Superman

Superhero Week: A look at The Fall of Ming

July 5, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Fall of Ming is part, the last part, of the Complete Flash Gordon Library. Put together from Alex Raymond’s material and published by Titan this is a fantastic coffee table book and still a wonderful read. It’s a large book. That’s one of the reasons I use the phrase “coffee table” to describe it. […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Dave Gibbons, Flash Gordon, reviews, sci-fi, Titan Books

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