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Comic book and graphic novels sales rebound in North America

May 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A historic shift is playing out as the market grew, primarily in the book channel, in 2018.

Adventure Finders: Newly Hired Adventurers preview

April 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Adventure Finders is a Lord of the Rings style adventure with some Game of Thrones-style schemes thrown in. A feature of the story is that it’s a female centred adventure.

Level up your computer game trivia: A review of Hey! Listen!: A journey through the golden era of computer games

April 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

My favourite bit in the first quarter was the introduction of some scruffy, unpopular and over-confident engineer in the early days of computer game programming. His name? Steve Jobs.

Bleach: Can’t Fear Your Own World character art surfaces

April 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fans suggest we’re seeing Segunda Etapa forms here; second stage. But second stage of which stage?

Listen to Stan Lee: A Trick of Light

April 25, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of the Light is one of the icons final projects. It’s a collaboration between creators, him, Kat Rosenfield and Ryan Silbert. Often an innovator, Lee decided to tell this superhero origin story in audio. From today, you can pre-order A Trick of Light from Audible. That’s Stan Lee’s voice in […]

Great story, but weird gurning faces: A review of the Thirteenth Doctor volume 1 comic book

April 18, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While The Doctor is at full power, it is the rather hapless baddie that is my favourite. He/it looks like you might find threatening a planet in Dragon Ball.