When Titan Comics announced it would do a brand new Robotech series it sold out. It’s already on a second printing and you can expect to find it on sale early August. The series promises not just to be another re-telling but a way to continue Carl Macek’s original vision. This collection takes into account […]
Superhero Week: A review of Masked – Rise of the Rocket
Masked: Rise of the Rocket is available in the UK from today. The graphic novel is the return of the widely praised French comic book series from Serge Lehman. This series, in English, from Titan Comics looks spectacular. In Masked: Rise of the Rocket we follow the origins of two characters. The first is Sergeant […]
Charge! A review of Warhammer 40,000: Will of Iron
Written by George Mann and with art from Tazio Bettin and Enrica Angiolini the paperback of Warhammer 40,000: Will of Iron (vol 1) is due out this month. You can grab it on Kindle too. The book collects the first four issues of the Will of Iron series. The series picks up as the warp storms […]
Alexa, should I take Audible’s free trial?
Audible is an audio book company owned by Amazon. I’ve been stalking it for a while as a few author friends always seem to be so happy when they’ve a new credit to spend on a book there. Audible’s business model is neither purely a retailer like Amazon nor a subscription model like Spotify. It’s […]
Devil Lord class: A review of Trinity Seven
I rather liked the look of Trinity Seven from the preview Geek Native posted back in 2015 but watching it left me uncertain. The premises is kinda cool. Arata Kasuga finds himself in a world of trouble after a magical apocalypse happens and it is probably his fault. In fact, the very world we have now […]
Not pants: A review of Punch Line
I’ve not had great success with some of my recent anime watching. My last two reviews, one for Wish Upon the Pleiades and one for When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace, didn’t score a recommendation at the end. They weren’t for me. I think they were better suited to teen girls. In Punch Line if the […]
Subaru, Subaru: A review of Wish Upon the Pleiades
This anime didn’t hold my attention. It’s pretty and shows promise but tells the story too slowly. Earlier fears and motivations from the characters might appeal to a young girl and so its safe to theorise that I’m firmly not the target market. Weirdly, the thing I liked most about the anime was the clever […]
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 […]
Dangerous or dull? A review of When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace
When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace is from director Masahiko Otsuka, best known for the charming and cheeky, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Sadly, Supernatural Battles has none of that charisma. The character we experience the show through is Ando Jurai. He’s a Chuunibyou. That’s someone who believes they have special powers and is also known […]
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, […]
