The comic book fans at NeoMan Studios have put together this infographic for Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet. This is a mashup of comic book lore of powers and colours of Infinity stones with the Marvel movies they’ve featured on. The Space stone appeared first in Captain America: The First Avenger, then it was the Mind stone […]
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Gamer comic Giocomics goes international
Giocomics is the episodic comic strip series by Stefano Castelli and Alan D’Amico. Originally published in Italian, it has now been translated into English. Stefano Castelli is a gamer and game designer; responsible for takes like Turandot and C.O.A.L.: Combat-Oriented Armored League. Alan D’Amico is an artist who has worked on board games like Kingsport […]
A blended potion of comedy and darkness: A review of Finn Fancy Necromancy
Finn Fancy Necromancy flips between humour, which is sometimes slightly immature, like magic eating Pac-man butt tattoos and rather dark subjects like family tragedy and mental health. The opening premise is very strong. Finn Gramarayre is returning to our world after a 25 year long exile to the Other Realm. He was exiled when he […]
Diamond Gem Awards winners announced
The Gem Awards are run by Diamond Comic Distributors in the States, working with comic book speciality retailers and recognised across the industry. It’s not just comic book retailers that are in the running – the Gem Awards looks at toy manufacturers and game makers. 2014 Diamond Gem Award Suppliers of the Year 2014 Comic […]
Competition: Reckoners bundle!
The second book in Mistborn author Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series, Firefight, is published today. This giveaway is a chance to win Firefight in hardcover and the first book in the series, Steelheart, in paperback. Reckoners is a new twist on superheroes. In Steelheart we’ve a world tens years after the event known as “Calamity”. When […]
Short film: We Were Not Made For This World
We Were Not Made For This World is a short film by Colin West McDonald that follows a robot trying to cross an alien landscape. The film, simple but powerful, is based on a three-panel comic strip by the respected Paul Hornschemeier. Also called “We Were Not Made For This World” the comic depicts a […]
Reviewed, free to download and a Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman: Cabra Cini
Cabra Cini is an Actuality Press character who has made a number of appearances in anthologies previously and now, for 2015, is getting a series of her own. Dark New Year is a free to download Cabra Cini comic you can download from either Actuality Press or DriveThruComics. Cini is a former hooker who reached […]
Kickstarter Watch: Tales of the Weird Wild West
I enjoy R.S. Belcher’s weird west series. When his name along with Tonia Brown, Diana Pharaoh Francis, John Hartness, Jonathan Maberry, Gail Martin, Misty Massey, and James Tuck popped up in this Kickstarter campaign for Tales of the Weird Wild West I took notice. [Back this Campaign] At the time of posting there is well […]
Druids and helicopters: A review of SEAL Team 666 – Reign of Evil
Reign of Evil is the third in the SEAL Team 666 series and follows on Age of Blood. It starts off with the death of one of the key characters from the previous two books. You’ll be wondering whether this is a comic book bluff death or the real thing for a while. In Reign […]
Zombies in Space: A review of Containment
Eric Red, the screenwriter (The Hitcher, Near Dark) and author, first had his zombies in space graphic novel published by IDW back in 2005. It’s been out of print for a while but is now coming out of cryosleep and is now available in both paper and digital again. How do you approach a comic […]
