Here’s a Black Friday sale that might interest you. Visit the Dark Horse web store and use the code dhdcyber and you’ll give 50% off everything provided you spend at least $15. Happy to spend way more than $15 on comics? Dark Horse also have a megabundle that contains 153 Star Wars comics for $100. […]
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Comic Con Scotland launches
MCM, the group that runs Comic Cons in London, Manchester, Birmingham and the Midlands, today announced MCM Scotland Comic Con. The Scottish arm of the franchise will be hosted at the SECC Glasgow. It opens on the 31st August. Bryan Cooney, show co-organiser, said; “MCM are so looking forward to bringing our brand to Glasgow’s […]
10 Christmas recommendations from Forbidden Planet
Geek Native reached out to the team at Forbidden Planet with a Christmas plea for insight. Which graphic novels would they recommend? What’s hot? What’s new? What should this blogger buy his geeky friends? The results are in. The Forbidden Planet team put their heads together and came back with these 10 tempting, geeky, recommendations […]
Which Green Lantern are you? [Infographic]
I started to follow the Green Lantern arc “Rise of the Third Army” after the Simon Baz teasers. Eventhough Comixology points me in the direction of the next comic to download it can be quite a challenge collecting all the pieces, especially when they come out in spits and spurts. DC have released a Green […]
Not Flesh Nor Feathers review
Not Flesh Nor Feathers is the third Eden Moore story from Cherie Priest. We’ve interviewed Priest before for her vampire Cheshire Red series and it does feel like she is an author in touch with her fans. Eden Moore is a medium who seems torn between wanting to lead a normal as life as possible […]
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges make World Book Night
Half a million free books will be given out to promote reading for World Book Night next year. Some 20,000 volunteers each hand out 20 copies of their favourite book to people who do not normally read. For the first time ever World Book Night has added a graphic novel to their list of promoted […]
Review of Under the Dragon’s Tail
Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, is a Murdoch Mysteries novel and historical whodunit of around 300 pages. The first Murdoch Mysteries novel I reviewed was “Except the Dying”, and you can find it, if you wanted, a couple pages back on Geek Native. Suffice to say I enjoyed it, and was looking forward […]
A Tank Girl: Carioca review
When I flipped open Tank Girl: Carioca I did not immediately get the Tank Girl vibe. The art is by Mike McMahon – of plenty of 2000AD and some Doctor Who Classics Omnibus editions. Perhaps I got a mixed signal from the 2000AD style, perhaps it just took me a while to get into the […]
Ultimate Avengers mural
End of the Line is an agency that produces quality, large scale murals, to support everything from movies to independent art events. They’ve just put the finishing touches on an Ultimate Avengers wall that had been hidden by a corporate hospitality tent that sprang up in London for the Olympics. The design is based on […]
Dead Roots review
Dead Roots is a zombie comic anthology, with a first edition just out, and a quarterly publishing schedule via Apple’s NewStand app. There’s a Kindle version in development. The premise is simple but effective; Dead Roots follows the initial outbreak of a zombie plague. As an anthology is follows different people in multiple short stories, […]
