With a whole month still to run the comic book Bust has made target. From Dave Cook and Chris O’Toole’s Bust is the story of a card dealer struggling to survive in a diseased world. [Back this Campaign] The first 12 pages of Bust are already available to the public and you can check them […]
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Those Crazy Olympians: Zeus is Dead
I downloaded Michael G. Munz’s Zeus is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure and thought it had broken my Nexus 7. Why? The reader said 9999 pages. There was no error, the book is that big and Amazon estimates 484 pages if you use a Kindle to approximate a physical book. There’s a lot of adventure […]
Competition: Sins of the Father
Fan of the TV show Fringe? Did you know there’s a book series too? Sins of the Father is a Fringe novel from Titan Books by Christa Faust that’s part of a collectionalong with The Zodiac Paradox and The Burning Man. This competition is easy to enter and gives you a chance to win one […]
A look inside: Adventure Time cartoon cards
Adventure Time – The Original Cartoon Title Cards is a new volume of quirky, brilliant and bizarre title cards. Not sure what a title card is? Title cards typically come after the opening sequence but before the first bit of the show. It’s a chance for the TV program to reveal the episode’s title. In […]
Listen to Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild
http://soundcloud.com/orionbooks/the-chase-continues-listen-to-a-clip-from-edward-coxs-the-relic-guild-read-by-imogen-church/s-ZBBgG This audiobook clip comes from Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild. Young Clara struggles to survive in a dangerous and dysfunctional city, where eyes are keen, nights are long, and the use of magic is punishable by death. She hides in the shadows, fearful that someone will discover she is touched by magic. She knows […]
Fanboy and the Fearworms
Fanboy Comics will release a limited edition print run of Robert Payne Cabeen’s Fearworms. Fearworms: Selected Poems will have cover art by the Emmy-nominated and Eisner-winning Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz is known for projects like Stray Toasters, New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin. Robert Payne Cabeen’s work (which includes Tainted Treats, Heavy Metal 2000, A Monkey’s Tale […]
Alien Indian steampunk: A review of Jani and the Greater Game
Jani and the Greater Game is the first in a new series from sci-fi writer Eric Brown. Brown’s previous books include the likes of Satan’s Reach (Weird Space), Helix Wars, The Devil’s Nebula and plenty of other titles that often involve alien fleets. Readers familiar with Brown’s usual sci-fi style will be forgiven for wondering […]
Grim, dark and compelling: A review of 2000 AD’s Jaegir
Jaegir is a one-shot in the US-format from 2000 AD. The comic book is written by Gordon Rennie (Department of Monsterology), drawn by Simon Coleby (The Royals), coloured by Len O’Grady and lettered by Simon Bowland. Importantly, although Jaegir is a one-shot it is set in the same universe as the classic 2000 AD Rogue […]
Lovecraft’s birthday summons Cthulhu sales!
The 20th of August is HP Lovecraft’s birthday. Happy birthday you old racist git. You did, however, create a whole genre of horror and some of the most iconic terrors of all time. There’s sales on today that geeks should be aware of. You may well want to check out Think Geek’s new site too. […]
Free to Download: Valiant Entertainment partner with DriveThruComics
We’d seen Valiant get a little cosy with OneBookShelf over at DriveThruRPG as the Valiant Universe RPG launched. DriveThruRPG had the exclusive and Valiant helped with temptations like the free to download Valiant RPG QS. Today that relationship got closer. The two companies have announced a new partnership. DriveThruComics will make Valiant’s complete library of […]
