The Supernatural novel series continues to be a pleasant surprise. Rite of Passage, by John Passarella, published by Titan Books, is an engaging read and a well written book. Rite of Passage is set in Season 7 of the TV series. In fact, it’s set between “Time for a Wedding” and “How to Win Friends […]
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The Dark Horse horror sale
Dark Horse currently have Halloween inspired horror sale on with a range of titles reduced to less than a dollar. Dark Horse recently made some pretty big changes to their Android app. In the past, in order to buy a comic, you would have to leave the app and visible their digital store on your […]
Review of Quarry’s Ex
With the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise under way there’s a good chance you might be looking for some similar cloak-and-daggers fiction. If that is the case you could consider picking up for yourself a copy of Quarry’s Ex. The protagonist of Quarry’s Ex, however, is not a government secret agent but rather […]
16 trick or treat Jack o’Lanterns: discounts and surprises
The team at DriveThruComics, DriveThruRPG, DriveThruFiction and WarGameVault are giving away free stuff to mark Halloween. All you have to do is explore the sites, find the Jack o’Lanterns, click and claim your reward. Caution! Not every Jack-o-Lantern contains a freebie. Some of them are tricks! Those sneaky people. Need a helping hand? The image […]
10 popular horror comics for roleplayers
It’s the run up to Halloween and we’re digging deep into unknowable horrors. Yesterday, with sales data from DriveThru RPG and RPGNow we asked are these the best horror RPGs of all time?. Today we look at comics. The slideshow above is composed of front covers from the most popular horror series (comics with a […]
Transformers: Exiles review
The Transformers! More than meets the eye! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons! The Transformers! Robots in disguise! The Transformers! More than meets the eye! The Transformers! I have to admit that song alone brings back some fond memories from my past, and will probably take a day or […]
Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto comic
A music video done as a motion comic is a pretty good idea. The track in question is “Hurts Like Heaven” by Coldplay. The video is actually a prequel to the six-part comic series telling the story of Mylo Xyloto. You can pre-order the comic from Coldplay’s fanfire site. The comic is published by Bongo […]
New Battlestar Galactica series
NBCUniversal have signed a license deal with Dynamite Entertainment to bring the classic Battlestar Galactica crew back to life in a new comic book series. The new Battlestar Galactica will be helmed by the British writing partnership of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. The two have worked together before on projects like Nova and The […]
A review of Dead Space: Catalyst
I liked the blood splatters. That was my first impression of Dead Space: Catalyst. Titan Books had given B. K. Evenson’s Dead Space novel a small but effective treatment and decorated the chapter numbers with a splash of black and white blood. Dead Space has always been about the atmosphere. Okay; Dead Space has been […]
Introducing Superman’s new creative team
Grant Morrison won’t be doing Superman any more. He’s the writer who took the new look Superman, jeans, t-shirts and boots, from the New 52 and made progress from there. Needless to say fans, many of whom liked the approach, were worried when he said issue #16 would be the last. Last week, on their […]
