I came to James P Blaylock’s steampunk books via his most recent novel The Aylesford Skull. I enjoyed the book and decided to read through some of his previous books starting with Homonculus. What a surprise. This feels like a very different book. The first few pages almost feel as if a different author was […]
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Clone Rebellion: Rogue Clone review
Rogue follows on from Clone Rebellion: Republic. The set up involves a controlling republic that bullies the spiralling arms of the intergalactic human colonies through the twin hammers of politics and a large and mainly clone army. Our hero is Wayson Harris who has risen up through the ranks from being a just graduated marine […]
10 examples of MHT Studios comic book art
Based in Quezon City in the Philippines, HMT Studios, is a group of artists who work on big name projects. The client list for their parent group is impressive with companies like DC, Dark Horse, Marvel, Hasbro, Dynamite Comics, Tokyopop and Zenoscope listed. Via HMT at Behance.
Delta14’s summer releases and the RPGs connections
Delta14 is the sister company to Chronicle City. Chronicle City strikes deals with RPG publishers in order to make print runs and savvy trans-Atlantic distribution. Here’s how the RPG connections map to Delta14’s schedule. Starting with Gunnar Roxen and the follow on books from The Wyld Hunt gives us the Broken Shield RPG. Gobion Rowlands […]
Wizards without Coats: Fumble
Once you’re done with this Wizard without Coats encounter, there’s plenty more to experience on the site. < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > Waisting that last wish on the giant fumbling…. not a good idea! Er, Jack! That wish was not a good idea!
DC’s Dark Universe might be their best chance against Marvel’s Avengers
Guillermo del Toro was at WonderCon to help promote Pacific Rim, the mecha versus Kaiju film, and it certainly feels like that’s going to be a great movie. While he was at the convention he also talked about Dark Universe – that’s the working name, perhaps the final name – for the “Justice League Dark” […]
Lucasarts & Dark Horse to publish The Star Wars
It’s April Fools’ Day and therefore understandable that people are treating this news with cautious – but many news outlets are reporting that Lacasarts and Dark Horse will publish The Star Wars. Bleeding Cool has the same news but Rich Johnston’s write up was published yesterday. Let’s go with this as being real. Back in […]
The Hawken Genesis graphic novel
Following the story of Rion Lazlo and the inventor James Hawken, Hawken Genesis is a hardback graphic novel from Archaia Entertainment that’s based on the free-to-play MMO Hawken. The game features giant mechs battling on a technologised world and this graphic novel acts both as a prequel and as a sourcebook for the game. It […]
Wizards without Coats: Adventure Cards
Welcome to V Shane’s “Wizards without Coats” comic strip. < PreviousWizards without Coats Next > I’m tellin’ ya, in my days we would wipe out an evil overlord, & ranksack his dungeon, all in an afternoon. All kids want to do these days is sit around and play cards, what’s adventuring coming to? Kids […]
The Identity Thief and Bryant Dillon of Fanboy Comics
Bryant Dillon co-founded Fanboy Comics, a conglomerate of geek media and therefore very close to Geek Native’s heart. He also authored the horror graphic novel Identity Thief that was reviewed by our comic book expert Paul. I took the chance to follow on from Paul’s review to bombard Bryant with some questions. Why create Fanboy […]
