Ubisoft’s Watch_Dogs is proving to be very popular. Aiden Pearce is a vigilante (or criminal) with a talent set that speaks to geeks. There’s no doubt that Ubisoft Montreal have created an engaging and clever game; mixing hacking with a gorgeous open world. It is also true that part of Watch_Dog’s appeal is that it […]
The boobs of fallen angels: A High School DxD review
High School DxD began life as a Japanese light novel in 2008 and made it as a TV series by 2012. Issei Hyodo is a male student at Kuoh Academy, an academy that only recently turned co-ed. He’s a letch and a perv in way that anime presents as totally acceptable. He’s soon caught in […]
Hacking humanity: The Kill Screen review
In geek history The Kill Screen was that point when a game becomes unplayable due to all the errors polluting the screen (or VDU). This isn’t a modern day problem as games are bullet tested but back in the 8-bit days it was an occasional occurrence. This Kill Screen is a comic written by Mike […]
Odd but catchy: A review of Magi – The Labyrinth of Magic
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. […]
