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 […]
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A review of The Guild: The Official Companion
The Guild Official Companion has an introduction from Felicia Day. Fear her. Wait, just to be clear; I don’t fear Felicia Day. That’s a quote from Josh Whedon (Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers). To give the full context; Her mind works faster than mine ever will and her mouth works faster than that. Felicia’s career will […]
Competition: Win one of three Pacific Rim novels
Pacific Rim is getting early rave reviews; giant mech fight for mankind against the Kaiju. Have you seen it yet? It looks like even the Jaegers, those giant mechs, aren’t enough to fight off the threat but mankind has one last chance – a washed up has-been pilot and an untested trainee coupled with a […]
The real Iron Throne
These pictures are whisking around the web. Geek Native must be in the last 3% of blogs to share them and yet they’re still too good not to share. What we have here is an alternative to the iconic Iron Throne created by HBO for the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s the alternative and […]
Wizards without Coats: Your resurrection plan
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 […]
Exclusive story and Executioner’s Heart competition
George Mann authors the audio scripts for the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sherlock Holmes series. He writes the popular steampunk Newbury & Hobbes mystery series and the latest book in that is The Executioner’s Heart. Just what is Mann’s writing like? He had a challenge from Geek Native – write a Newbury & Hobbes […]
Amazon launch Jet City Comics
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 […]
Will Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Universe create a DC Universe?
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 […]
Games group signs deal with IDW Publishing
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 […]
A review of Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective
I enjoyed Poe’s work and Rue Morgue is one of my favourites. Despite having read Poe, despite having read the adventure of Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin and his nameless narrator I somehow missed the history of the short story. In Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe invents the detective. He invents the detective before the word […]
