I spent one of my precious Audible tokens on The Singularity Trap, so I hoped it would be good. If you’re not familiar with Audible, then the tokens are a blessing and a curse. It’s a subscription service, and you get one token a month. You can get whichever audiobook you want with them – […]
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Preview art from the new RPG comic series Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment and Titan Comics have teamed up to produce a new comic book series set in Sanctuary, the Diablo world. Diablo is a massive computer game success. Diablo III, the latest game, set the record for the fastest-selling PC game ever with 3.5 million copies sold on day 1. The game is now available […]
The real purpose of The Village: Titan reprints The Prisoner “Shattered Visage”
Shattered Visage was first published in 1988 and has been out of print for years. The ‘The Prisoner sequel, Shattered Visage is considered to be a significant addition to the cult classic The Prisoner because (disclaimer: I’ve not read it) it features a former secret agent who discovers what happened to Number Two and the […]
Life is Strange gets four-part comic book miniseries
Life is Strange 2, the video game, is due out late September. It’s good for a host of platforms; Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows/Steam too. The new miniseries from writer Emma Vieceli and artist Claudia Leonardi is set in the world of Life is Strange and takes readers back to Arcadia Bay. The comic […]
“Under” movie in the works as mutant monsters war in American sewers
Christophe Bec, the French author, and the illustrator Stefano Rafael, his regular collaborator, had a definite hit in 2010 with the release of Under in France. The English language versions of the comic book only took a year to happen. That’s lightning fast. Now, filming for a movie based on Under is scheduled to start […]
Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince bestselling fantasy series gets comic book adaptation
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 […]
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 […]
