This is a review of season 1 part 1 of the anime Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. It is Arabian Nights turned into an anime. Aladdin is a young boy who has escaped some sort of dungeon with a headless genie in a flute. Ali Baba is a teenager who works for merchants and dreams […]
Steampunk science and elemental magic: A Silver Mirrors review
Silver Mirrors is the sequel to A.A. Aguirre’s Bronze Gods. The Apparatus Infernum series blends some steampunk concepts and imagery with fairy concepts and imagery. As a result you have trains powered by elementals that criss-cross a busy city on an island now sealed off by magic. In the first book our two detectives (a […]
A fight to the death: Penguins vs Possums
Player versus Player – that’s what most gamers equate the acronym PvP with. There’s another brutal PvP, though, and this is a deadly PvP that has been waging unseen by mankind for generations. Penguins vs Possums has two sides locked in combat. The last Fanboy Comics title I reviewed also featured a battle being fought […]
Rewriting the plot: A look at Eureka Seven AO part 2
In my review of Eureka Seven AO p1 I mentioned I hadn’t seen the first series, liked the anime but struggled to get into the characters. Part two is different for the obvious reason – I know the characters better now. It’s also different for the less obvious reason – the great big gun that […]
A video tour of Godzilla: The Art of Destruction
The hardback Godzilla – The Art of Destruction from Titan Books is a 168-paged geeky compliment to the newly released Godzilla film. The news today is that a sequel is on the way. Godzilla did well at the box office and this Toho fan gives the movie two thumbs up. Sure, there’s mixed reviews about […]
Colonisation by zombie: The Exodus Towers
The Exodus Towers is the second book in Jason M. Hough’s The Dire Earth Cycle. The first book, The Darwin Elevator, was a good one and I could see why people found some similarities to Firefly. The Dire Earth Cycle isn’t a space western but it’s a science fiction, set in the near future, after […]
Demonic chaos: A review of the Blue Exorcist movie
I’ve reviewed the two parts of the Blue Exorcist TV show on Geek Native and rather enjoyed the show. Those encounters were based on the subbed version of the anime. I jumped at the chance to watch Blue Exorcist: The Movie at my local indie cinema but made a surprise discovery when I got there. […]
The geek streets: A review of The Secret Service – Kingsman
This post is a mixture. There’s a review, an audio interview with artist and illustrator Dave Gibbons and a video tour of the softback graphic novel. I opened The Secret Service: Kingsman with some trepidation. This is my usual reaction to a Mark Millar piece as I know I may be secrets away from reading […]
Robots vs aliens: A review of Eureka Seven AO
I was in at the deep end for Eureka Seven AO as it’s the sequel to Eureka Seven, which I haven’t seen. The good news is that I followed Eureka Seven AO without any bother. If there’s clever overlaps, foreshadowing or flashbacks to the original then they’re sailing right on by without disrupting my AO […]
All out combat: Attack the Geek review
Attack the Geek is billed as a Ree Reyes Side-Quest and follows on in Michael R. Underwood’s Geekomancy urban fantasy series. As it happens; this is my first experience of the series, my first encounter with Ree and Geekomancy and therefore a bit of a gamble. It’s a gamble that paid off. I had no […]
