Titan Comics brought out Samurai : Collected Edition volumes 1 – 4 in hardback for December last year. Written by Jean-François Di Giorgio, Frederic Genêt and Delphine Rieu the series follows Takeo on the Unnamed Island, training his swordsmanship and learning, truly, to become a Samurai. Now we’re getting the individual softcovers and are up […]
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Callover Cover: Legenderry: Vampirella
I’ve no problem with Vampirella having more clothes on than normal. This version of the immortal heroine has gone all steampunk and David Avallone’s adventure is set in a neo-Victorian world of petticoats and airships. The cover artist is Joe Benitez. You can find the comic at Things From Another World or Comixology.
An omnibus of magic: A review of The Mage Storms
The Mage Storms is an omnibus edition from Titan Books that brings together the three books Storm Warning, Storm Rising and Storm Breaking from Mercedes Lackey. As it happens, despite all the books to her credit, my only previous encounter with Mercedes Lackey was with Elemental Masters: Blood Red. I found that book to be […]
Competition: Win Mirror Sight
Mirror Sight is the fifth book in the hugely popular Green Rider series. Karigan G’ladheon is a Green Rider, a member of the royal messenger corps and who went up against the feared Mornhacon the Black. She should have been killed… except, rather than death, and peace, she finds herself sealed insight a stone sarcophagus. […]
The Ninth Doctor gets a whole new comic book series
Titan Book has today announced a license deal with BBC Worldwide which means the Ninth Doctor will be back in comic book form. The Ninth incarnation of the famous Time Lord has already had a 5-part mini series. Now, Christopher Eccleston’s vision of the Doctor will join the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors as a […]
Callout cover: Deus Ex #1 variants
The new comic book series is based on Eidos’ computer RPG Deus Ex. The story acts as the prologue to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, dealing with the fallout of the Panchaea Incident and Human Revolution. Once again, former SWAT member Adam Jensen, features as the cyberpunk hero. We’ll have to wait until February 2016 before […]
An exclusive extract from The Jericho River
The Jericho River: A Novel About the History of Western Civilization is a novel from David W. Tollen that’s won a whole bunch of awards (London Book Festival, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, et al) and which should appeal to RPG fans. The novel sets about presenting history as an adventure story. The Jericho River […]
Competition: The Relic Guild
Last year we posted a fee audio clip from Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild and now you’ve a chance to win a copy of the book. Cox’s debut novel follows Clara as she tries to stay alive, keeping her magical abilities hidden, in a dangerous city where the use of magic is punishable by death. […]
Doubles up on gigantic: A review of Shipstar
Shipstar is the follow on to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford’s Bowl of Heaven. Unusually for a sequel, it’s a much better book. The action picks up in the aftermath of Bowl of Heaven and the humans are in deep trouble. They’ve found this gigantic spaceship-thing built around a star and have learn the hard […]
Deadly power struggles: A review of The Boy Who Wept Blood
The Boy Who Wept Blood is the sequel to Den Patrick’s The Boy with the Porcelain Blade. I really enjoyed most of Porcelain Blade; with some of the flashbacks as the exception, they felt like a bit like filler when I really wanted to get on with the action. The Boy Who Wept Blood has […]
