Who feeds these things? < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > You’ve crawled through tiny tunnels. You’ve used a rope to climb up through a narrow hole in the cave ceiling. You’ve ducked under swinging axe blades, jumped skilfully across the trapped, puzzled floor and edged along a narrow ledge over the lava of doom. How […]
Book news and discoveries
Welcome to Geek Native's Books section, your portal to the multiverse of the written and illustrated word. From epic fantasy novels to the frontiers of science fiction, we keep you updated with timely book news and insightful reviews to help you discover your next great read.
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Celebrating 30 years of Slaine
The barbarian Slaine appeared first in 2000 AD back in 1983. The hero and a world based heavily in Celtic myths was created by Pat Mills and Angela Kincaid. This is the 30th year of Slaine. 2000 AD Prog 1848 (published September) contains a one off special strip from Simon Bisley. Bisley was such a […]
Five teasers for NARR8
Geek Native’s written about the interactive media platform NARR8 a few times over the last few months. We’ve covered their progress, increasing numbers and even talked to MD Maxim Matveyko about the evolution of the system. Now it’s a platform that lets you read, create and share – and what you read has animation, music […]
Pawn of the gods: A Magic of Myths review
Season two of Corey Brotherson and Sergio Calvet’s Magic of Myths came out in July of this year. That was quite a gap from the first season which was published back in 2010. I’m sure it was worth the wait – although, in my case, I read both as a bundle. In fact, I read […]
The weird west: A review of The Six-Gun Tarot
The Six-Gun Tarot in a book all Trail of Cthulhu fans should read. Pretty much all of the rest of us should pick it up too. This story of magic and guns in the wild west easily makes in onto my 2013 Recommend Reading list. Let’s start with a town in the middle of the […]
Wizards without Coats: Mouser
Hiring heroes is hard. < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > We were under a different impression when you listed yourself as The Grey Mouser. Building an adventuring party or even running a Guild – the application process is essential. Don’t want any weak links to sneak into the chain. Have you had any close calls? […]
Wordless fantasy: Butterfly Gate review
Butterfly Gate is all sorts of different. The main way in which Butterfly Gate will be different from the other comics in your collection – unless you’re something of a master – is that Butterfly Gate has no text. There’s neither dialogue nor description. In other words; all you get are image panels. Impressively, Butterfly […]
Which were the best selling horror comics this year?
Last week we asked “Who scares the best” and investigated DriveThru Fiction’s best selling horror stories. We found out that gamers tended to go for anthologies and White Wolf did well. Gamers don’t just read books; they read comics too. There’s DriveThru Comic’s best sellers from Halloween 2012 up until the start of this month […]
Wizards without Coats: Fireball
Gotta keep safe while adventuring! < PreviousWizards without CoatsNext > Are you sure this wizard can handle fireballs? You can learn a lot from how wizards dress. Do they still carry a lot of weapons? Are they cautious or lacking in attack spells? Are their bags packed with books and scrolls? Could they […]
Blessed or doomed? A review of The Arcs
The Arcs is a graphic novel from Fanboy Comics that will be available for purchase on November 6th and which currently has a free preview up at TheArcsComic.com. Written and created by Michael D. Poisson, illustrated by Matt Jacobs and lettered by Oceano Ransford The Arcs gives you 80-pages of heaven and hell. God has […]
