I don’t think this is much of a surprise. V. E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic series has done well, it’s a New York Times bestselling fantasy series and is published by Titan. Titan Comics is stepping into the ring to take the property even further and given that there’s a film adaptation in the works […]
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Ivan Van Norman announces kids D&D book deal with Wizards of the Coast
Ivan Van Norman is a geek with many talents. He has a production credit on Kung Fu Panda, is the GM on Geek & Sundry’s We’re Alive: Frontier stream and is part of Hunters Books the company behind Outbreak: Undead. Now he’s writing kids D&D books illustrated by Caleb Cleveland. The A, B, Cs of […]
A first look inside: the steampunk Newbury & Hobbes
Doctor Who, Dark Souls and Warhammer 40K writer George Mann has a new project and its steampunk. Titan Comic’s Newbury & Hobbes follows special agents Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Victoria Hobbes through the dangerous and alternative Victorian England as they tackle criminals. I’d say it’s almost like a steampunk Avengers, but I’m not familiar […]
Superhero Week: Audible discount offer and 5 free audiobook clips
[Download this] This special offers page gives you a 50% discount to Audible for the first 3 months. I’m a member and am especially fond of using Alexa to listen in. As it’s Superhero Week, we’ve got five free clips from superhero tales on the site. The first clip is Velveteen vs The Junior Super-Patriots […]
Up close and space opera – An Empire of Silence review
Empire of Silence is the début novel from Christopher Ruocchio and “The Name of the Wind” meets “Dune” is how some people are describing it, which is no mean feat! I think this is an excellent way to summarise the feel and the scope of the sci-fi. We have an autobiographical account from the exiled […]
Find the Wendigo Wood on Kickstarter
Liverpool based indie publisher Afterlight Comics have a new title up at Kickstarter. Publisher and creator Joseph Oliveria is asking for £2,400 to find the title, and he’s more than halfway there. You can follow the progress on the campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ghostislandcomic/wendigo-wood-1-a-folk-horror-comic [Back this Campaign] It only takes £2 (about US$2.65) to get a PDF […]
Doctor Who: Listen to the Doctor’s Daughter again
The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) ended up with a ‘daughter’ after a strange encounter on the planet Messaline. She was played by Georgia Moffett who then married David Tennant in real life. Yup, the daughter of the Doctor, who played the daughter of the Doctor, married the Doctor. And now, after a long wait, she’s […]
Burn this book: A review of Fictional Alignment
To be clear, ‘Burn this book’ is the advice on the back cover of Fictional Alignment. Reading fiction, we’re reminded, is a criminal offence under The Fictional Alignment Act to read a work of fiction and that anyone doing so will be terminated. Terminated is the right word to use when killer robots from the […]
Hot Lunch manga aims to improve reading
London’s own manga publisher mayamada is back on Kickstarter and with a new project. Hot Lunch is a manga graphic novel for all ages and is about a tiger in a suit (a nice suit) on a heist. The company is asking for £5,000 in all or nothing campaign which you can follow online. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401125455/hot-lunch-the-all-ages-manga-style-graphic-novel/ […]
Yo ho ho: A review of Sea of Thieves comic book #1
I enjoyed watching people play Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves during the beta. It looked like a proper sailing simulator and the crew mechanic was nice. In fact, I can see Twitch and Patreon perks quickly being used in conjunction with populating a crew. Titan Comics has a comic book from writer Jeremy Whitley coming out […]
