It’s Wonder Woman season thanks to DC’s latest movie hitting the cinemas this week. Geek Native’s already given you a chance to win a Wonder Woman model worth $450. A bit epic? This competition has 5 book prizes and is open to anyone in the UK. What do you have to do to win? Good […]
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III covers
Titan Comics have revealed the covers for their Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III partnership with Games Workshop. The four issue mini-series is due out in April 2017, is written by Ryan O’Sullivan and illustrated by Daniel Indro. It’ll tie into Relic Entertainment’s Dawn of War III computer game. Ørjan Svendsen Game Variant Pasquale Qualano […]
Diversity in comic books: Heroes of Homeroom C turns to Kickstarter
Heroes of Homeroom C is the first effort from the independently owned and operated Aristocrats Comics. It follows Nicola and Albert Hathaway after the 12-year-old twins lose their super powers and end up back in school. Can they manage to have a normal life? Nope. More details are on the official campaign page. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aristocratscomics/heroes-of-homeroom-c-an-all-ages-graphic-novel [Back […]
Titan Comics bring will sex android Sky Doll to life in 2017
Created by the husband and wife team, Aleessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa, former Disney animators, Sky Doll is set in a parallel universe where spiritual love and sexual love are rival forces. The main character, Noa, is a Sky Doll. She looks female, has no rights and exists exclusively to satisfy desires. The first three […]
Magic is banned: A review of the Relic Guild
The Relic Guild is the first novel from Edward Cox for a fantasy series where magic started an awful war, is now banned but is needed to save us. The original pecking order seems to go Thaumaturgists at the top, to Aelfir and then to humankind. The Aelfir Houses rule countless realms. The Labyrinth, home […]
Bombardment of Acheron: Games Workshop partners with Titan
Games Workshop has formed a partnership with Titan Comics to produce a comic mini-series next year to support Dawn of War III. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War was a hit back in 2005 and was followed by Dawn of War II: Retribution. The third in the series is due out in April 2017. The comic […]
Don’t annoy the supernatural: A review of The Wild Ways
The Wild Ways from Tanya Huff and a sequel to The Enchantment Emporium. In the first book we meet a magical family called the Gales who command enough respect that the supernatural tends to leave them alone; unless they’re really powerful. The Wild Ways follows one of my favourite characters from the book, Charlotte Gale, […]
Behind the scenes with The Can Opener’s Daughter
Rob Davis’ The Motherless Oven is an award-winning comic. In this world there are no birthday, only deathdays and it’ll be a battle for Scarper Lee to survive that long. In this world children make their own parents and Scarper’s father is a wind-powered construction and his mother a Bakelite hairdryer. Now, in the The […]
IDW rollout 40% discount on Dungeons & Dragons comics
IDW Publishing have a big 40% off sale over at DriveThruComics. The discounts are available from the sale page and includes Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms classics once published by DC Comics. The sale also includes new titles like Abraxis Wren of Eberron and Legends of Baldur’s Gate by Jim Zub. As the sale […]
Superhero Nerd: A review of Geek-Girl #1
Sam Johnson’s Geek-Girl has been on my radar for a little while, at least from last year when Geek Native previewed Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman: Cabra Cini (rated as: hopeful) but the author himself has been getting mentions on the site since 2014 in conjunction with Free Comic Book Day. What Geek-Girl does is flip the […]
