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MyM’s Tarik Alozdi appearing at Midlands Comic Con

February 17, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Midlands Comic Con have announced that MyM’s publisher Tarik Alozdi will be making an appearance. It’ll actually be the MyM magazine’s first appearance in public, before MyM #1 is published on the 3rd of May at WHSmiths and other newsagents, In the press release, Tarik said; “MyM is the magazine that UK anime fans and […]

Filed Under: Comics

Supernatural: Coyote’s Kiss review

February 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Supernatural: Coyote’s Kiss is a Supernatural novel from Christa Faust that takes place in season six between the TV episodes “Caged Heat” and “Appointment in Samara”. If you’re not that far into your Supernatural experience then the rest of this review contains spoilers. The most significant part of the mythos for Coyote’s Kiss to make […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: reviews, Supernatural

Review of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer

February 8, 2012 by James Leave a Comment

It is a good sign when a science fiction writer can be described as being ahead of his or her time, and this is certainly the case regarding Philip José Farmer (January 26th, 1918 – February 25th, 2009). Farmer is perhaps best known for his Riverworld books, a series whose plot has everyone who has […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: humour, reviews, Sherlock Holmes

The Magic: The Gathering comic hits the shelves today

February 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 1st of February is the publication date for the comic book with the UPC of 82771400302400111. That’s Magic The Gathering #1 By Matt Forbeck, Aleksi Briclot and Martin Coccolo, the series follows the adventures of Dack Fayden, the greatest thief in the Multiverse, has he tracks down people who destroyed his town. Yes. I […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: magic the gathering, Matt Forbeck, pictures, wizards of the coast

Before Watchmen: Pictures

February 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Many geeks will not be happy with DC’s decision to return to the Watchmen with a prequel. This includes Watchmen creator Alan Moore. However, DC is a business, if they don’t make money then we have no DC at all. Can DC ever hope to follow on from the Watchmen? They’ll try. Here’s a gathering […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Alan moore, dc comics, watchmen

Graphicly to challenge One Book Shelf? Empower publishers?

January 26, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Geek Native was lucky enough to interview Graphicly’s CEO Micah Baldwin back in the day In fact, back then Graphicly was known as Graphic.ly and was part of the whole .ly domain doom. Since then Graphicly has faced some fierce competition in the digital comic market from the likes of comiXology, made some acquisitions, introduced […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, onebookshelf

Who fights who? The Avengers Vs X-Men match ups

January 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Marvel announced a series of Avengers Vs X-Men titles. There’s a webpage up over at Marvel.com/AvX that’s worth checking out if you’re a fan. I want to know who will fight whom. After all – are they realling going to put Iron Man up against Magneto? It looks like Marvel have been scattering exclusives of […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: beast, black widow, daredevil, hulk, iron man, Magneto, psylocke, spider-man, spider-woman, Storm, The Avengers, the thing, Thor, X-Men

Pathfinder RPG becomes a comic book

January 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Paizo Publishing have granted Dynamite Entertainment a license to create and publish a Pathfinder comic book. As Paizo is quick to point out; Pathfinder is now tied with Dungeons & Dragons as the best-selling hobby RPG. It was first published in 2009. Dynamite is a little older, founded in 2004, it now has a range of […]

Filed Under: Comics, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, Erik Mona, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Vampirella

Cute Game of Thrones house sigils

December 22, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Does “Cute” and “Game of Thrones” go together? Hmm. Not often. However, the talented Renaud Forestié has created these Game of Thrones house signals that are certainly cute. Forestié, based in Toulouse France, is a creative available for freelance work. House Lannister House Mormont House Stark House Targaryen House Tully House Arryn House Baratheon House […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: game of thrones, George R. R. Martin

Animated comic book covers

December 9, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kerry Callen is already well known to the comic book reading geek aficionados. Now, after the wider web caught sight of these four animated comic book covers, he is legend. I like these covers because they don’t just show how animated gifs can be used correctly. They show how a little motion can really enhance […]

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: batman, iron man, justice league, spider-man

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