Things in Squares is run by Cale as a way to stay active in web design, drawing and humour. I’d say this Magic: The Gathering / pub pick-up joke is good enough to boost the web comic’s readership.
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Fear the social media followers: A review of The Kill Screen
I looked at the first issue – ILOVEYOU – of The Kill Screen back in 2014 and really liked Mike Garley’s comic book project. This wasn’t a zombie end of the world. This was a weird apocalypse in which people had become infected by some weird digital virus. Those infected seem to manifest digital pixels […]
The DC logo and strange meerkat mystery
DC Entertainment has a new logo. It designed so DC Entertainment can relevant to multimedia formats *movies, cough* and not just comic books. The page turn effect is no longer there. We should see this new logo for DC Universe: Rebirth. Here’s what DC’s Chief Creative Officer had to say; “I’m very proud that REBIRTH […]
Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook covers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a name American readers might know from the NBA but as it happens Abdul-Jabbar is a Mycroft Holmes fan and back in 2015, with Anna Waterhouse, he published his first novel Mycroft Holmes. The story about Sherlock’s elder brother currently has 4.5 stars aggregate reviews over on Amazon UK. Now the polymath […]
Exclusive: An extract from Joe Abercrombie’s Sharp Ends
Sharp Ends was introduction to the World of the First Law. There’s ‘grimdark’ fantasy done well (and often) in this series of short stories. For me, as a newcomer, it was a chance to meet interesting people and match as many of them die. It was a chance to meet interesting people and wonder, when […]
Grimdark done well: A review of Sharp Ends
Sharp Ends is a collection of short stories and is my introduction to Joe Abercrombie’s World of the First Law. I’m not sure how to tackle Sharp Ends. Let’s begin with the important stuff; I really enjoyed it. In Sharp Ends the characters feel real and are interesting. Bad things happen to good people. I’m […]
Short, snappy, sci-fi: A review of Sam Cane – Hard Setdown
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 […]
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 […]
