This video answers the question; “Why do old books smell?”. There are a number of reasons but a key part is due to chemical reactions. It’s a bad idea, for example, to store a piece of newspaper in a book as the acidic paper from the newspaper will damage the book over time. At about […]
Book news and discoveries
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Leaked pictures from DC’s “New 52: Second Wave”
Take this leak with a pinch of salt. Don’t dismiss the pictures as fake – not that type of salt. Take the fact that this is a “leak” with a pinch of salt. These images come from Buzzfeed, as a sample, where Gavon Laessig straight up admits that the site was invited to take the […]
Teasing Cold & Dark: the free to download Lost Redemption
Last month Geek Native was lucky enough to have an exclusive look at Cold & Dark; an RPG from Wicked World Games. At the time I speculated whether the game might touch on the Mass Effect style. Lost Redemption seems to suggest so. It’s also been noted that Cold & Dark promises to be a […]
Comixology launch D&D sale
Comixology is the leading online comic service. It’s iOS and Android app, recently entirely re-done, is the market leader. Comixology effectively powers the standalone Marvel app and one main rival, Graphicly, has announced it’ll be pulling out of the app landscape to focus on its publishing tools. The app is free. Having the app allows […]
He-Man returns
DC Comics have announced a 6-issue mini-series of He-Man & The Masters of the Universe. It’ll be written by James Robinson, pencils by Philip Tan and inks by Ruy Jose. It’ll have been 30 years since his first appearance and in that time He-Man & The Masters of the Universe have been published by the […]
Offical Game of Thrones: The Lands of Ice and Fire map
There have been some pretty impressive fan attempts to apply cartography skills to the Game of Thrones. For the most part, George R. R. Martin has given credit where credit was due but he’s also pointed out that he hadn’t released all the need-to-know facts about the world yet and so the unofficial maps of […]
Lenore’s 20th birthday begin with issue 5 #YearOfLenore
Roman Dirge’s cute little dead girl turns 20 in 2012. Titan Comics will be releasing four brand new issues over the year as part of the celebrations. Issue #5, out on March 28th, kicks off the party. Lenore and her ragtag assortment of associates must team up to try and defeat the unstoppable creepig. Fans […]
James Cameron’s Titanic – expanded
It’s a good day to be James Cameron. The director of The Abyss and Avatar successfully manned a solo submarine to the bottom of the Mariana trench. No one had ever done that before. The timing is good because the world is gearing up to recieve the Titanic in 3D. This is James Cameron’s very […]
The face(s) of the new Justice League villain
Jim Lee has created a whole new villain to go up against the Jusice League. Revealed by DC yesterday, we get to see what the mysterious baddie looks like and learn that Geoff Johns‘ story will pitch him against the League. We don’t have a name or any hint of powers – but we might […]
Marvel reclothing heroes
Marvel have announced that Kelly Sue DeConnick will be reinventing Carol Danvers. The Air Force officer is no longer Ms. Marvel. Danvers will be Captain Marvel. DeConnick comes in to helm the new series at a time when DC is taking some flack for sexing up some of their female heroes in their recent relaunch. […]
