Tim Chant’s Sam Cane: Hard Setdown weighs in at just 99 pages. It’s a novella and the perfect sort of size for a rainy Sunday, a business flight or something to read in the hotel room after a Comic Con. As it’s short and snappy Sam Cane: Hard Setdown gets to the point. Sam is […]
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Start your 2000 AD and Judge Dredd adventures here: A review of Prog 1973
This week’s 2000 AD is a good and useful edition. Prog 1973, which you can buy online or use one of the apps to read, is a special “jumping on” issue. All the stories in the edition are new. In other words you don’t have to go into the back issues to catch-up with the […]
The Pride hardcover collections to Kickstarter
There are gay superhero franchies but they’re hardly common and few as successful as The Pride. Joe Glass has taken to Kickstarter to put together a hardcover collection. At the time of writing there’s nearly a month left on the Kickstarter and a target of £13,000 to hit. You can follow progress here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131616880/the-pride-vol-1-hardcover-collection-lgbtq-superhe [Back […]
IDW expand DriveThruComics deal; bringing Magic, GI Joe and Transformers
IDW Publishing already has its Dungeons and Dragons Classics comic series on OneBookShelf’s DriveThruComics. They’ve now expanded that offering to include Magic: the Gathering, GI Joe and Transformers. More comics are expected to appear on the site each week. The launch as gone well with GI Joe taking the top two spots in the DriveThruComic’s […]
Billions Dead: A review of Surface Tension
Surface Tension is a graphic novel from Jay Gunn and Titan Comics. Gunn is both the author and illustrator so, straight off the bat, I’m impressed. The comic book picks up on a remote British Island after sea sickness has killed most of the people on the planet. The sea sickness was horrible; it gave […]
Steps forward: A review of Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
I enjoyed Finn Fancy Necromancy. The adventure followed a necromancer returned to our world after being imprisoned in the fae world for a crime he didn’t commit. It was largely humorous, sometimes a bit too zany for me and rather nicely flirted with a touch of darkness now and then. The hero, after all, is […]
Competition: Win Fable – Blood of Heroes
The bad news is that Microsoft has cancelled their plans to release Fable Legends. Worse than that the whole studio, Lionhead, is to close and jobs are at risk. It’s not too late for you to have a piece of Fable Legends, though. Last year Titan Books and author Jim C Hines teamed up to […]
Pathfinder launches Humble Comics Bundle
There’s more than 30 digital comics, 20 battle maps and 2 exclusive maps in the new Humble Comics Bundle from Pazio’s Pathfinder and Dynamite. That’s about $100 worth of content which you get by paying whatever you want. At the time of writing nearly 8,500 copies have been sold. Tempted? You’ll have to be quick […]
The ABCs of RPGs gears up to please gaming families
Looking for a way to gently introduce the wonderful RPG hobby to your kids while also, of course, giving their reading skills a careful boost. That’s the goal of the ABCs of RPGs which has now funded on Kickstarter with, at the time of writing, two weeks on the clock. You can check for updates […]
For your magic library: A review of Harry Potter – The Character Vault
There’s no doubt that Harry Potter – The Character Vault is a companion book that Harry Potter fans will treasure. Produced by Titan Books the Character Vault benefits from the publisher’s long experience in making collectible hardback accessories for movies, TV shows and games. The goal each time is to re-create the familiar, in this […]
