“Slender but impressive” – two words which could be used to describe the skull-white, 1000 year old, lord of Melniboné or the latest hardback from Titan Comics. The Ruby Throne is the first in a new comic adaption of the books by Michael Moorcock. I’ve not read any of the Elric of Melniboné books but […]
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Underwear and explosions: The Power of Tank Girl review
There’s lots of Tank Girl in this omnibus. We’ve three different stories in a single collection thanks to Alan C Martin, Ashley Wood and Rufus Dayglo. The stories themselves, if you’re a Collector and need to know, are The Gifting, Visions of Booga and The Royal Escape. You might think you always know what you’re […]
A bleep from the past: Commodore 64 Book – A Visual Commpendium
Did you have a C64? The Commodore (two ms – hence two ms in ‘commpendium’) was one of those early consoles that had a lifelong impact. I talk to gamer geeks who love to reminisce about favourite games they played on it. There’s good news for fans and good news for friends of fans looking […]
Genre-hopping drama: A review of Ecko Burning
Ecko Burning is the sequel to Ecko Rising. I enjoyed Rising even though I had to wrestle with it. I wrestled less with Burning and enjoyed it more. Our anti-hero is a full tech cyberpunk creation called Ecko. A mission goes wrong, he falls off a roof and wakes up in a fantasy world. There […]
Bust is no bust
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 […]
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 […]
