Part two of Manga’s Guilty Crown means episodes 12 to 21 and it also counts as one of those second halves to a hard hitting anime where the audience has every right to say; “Oh? There’s a part two?” For a review of part one pop over to The Power of Kings review published back […]
Nightmares of Futures Past
We are just a few weeks from the opening of the new X-Men movie Days of Future Past. This is perhaps one of the most popular X-Men story arcs even though it only spanned two issues of the original series. It presented a dark future where all mutants were seen as a threat regardless of […]
Big Damn Shiny Heroes: A Review of Firefly Friends in Low Places
Firefly came and went like its insect namesake, but the series endures through a wide fan-base, comics, and various games. Rightly so, because in my opinion Firefly was a damned fine series that warrants the adoration it receives. Margaret Weis Productions has taken a stab at the ‘Verse before, presenting a Cortex-powered game based on […]
Once and Future Gaming: A Review of Corporia
Corporia emerged from a successful Kickstarter, rather like Excalibur from the stone. It involved a bit of effort, a touch of struggle. It scraped through, if you care to compare it to some of the stonking successes of the last two years. On the plus side, writer Mark Plemmons delivered the product on time and […]
Review of the Gadget Show Live 2014
This year it is the Gadget Show’s 10th birthday and the Gadget Show Live reflected that. Having discussed the event with friends who went I’ll admit it’s divided opinions but I liked it this year and I’ll tell you why. The Gadget Show expo felt diverse this year. Previously, I’ve noted that the expo has […]
Shocking: A review of Vicious
I really enjoyed Vicious. I think. I started to read Vicious knowing it was a superhero book. So when we start following two intelligent but out of sorts friends at college it is clear we’ll dabble in their origin story. There’s a bit of rivalry and so it is equally apparent we’re reading about nemesis […]
Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary
The adversaries, beasts, constructs and monsters of the Ninth World poses a formidable and often unfathomable threat to life. Characters setting out on a voyage of discovery through the weird landscape of ruins, drit and numenera can expect to not expect much of what they encounter. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition – true enough. […]
It’s Not Easy Being Weird: A Review of Numenera’s Injecting the Weird
Your mounts are quadruped leeches with shrivelled, underdeveloped forearms and an odour like pickled limes. Having arrived in Thexz, entering through a gateway in the wall of solidified whispers that surround it, and left the mounts in stables, you search out your contact. H’eth is an ex-Aeon Priest who speaks with two voices, one like […]
Steampunk Changelings: A review of Bronze Gods
Bronze Gods is an Apparatus Infernum novel, the first I think, from the partnership of Ann Aguirre and husband Andres Aguirre (writing as A.A. Aguirre). It’s an interesting set up that mixes a fairy/fantasy setting with steampunk. The exact mythology and lore isn’t spelt out in painstaking detail, it is hinted at through dreams and […]
Doing It Old Style: A Review of The Fire Demon – Death Awaits You!
In the 1980s, Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy books forged the way for children (and many adults) to enter fantastic worlds, where they held a measure of control in the outcome. The books allowed the reader to steer the plotline of the story through a finite number of variations, many of which ended […]
