The Guild Official Companion has an introduction from Felicia Day. Fear her. Wait, just to be clear; I don’t fear Felicia Day. That’s a quote from Josh Whedon (Buffy, Firefly, The Avengers). To give the full context; Her mind works faster than mine ever will and her mouth works faster than that. Felicia’s career will […]
A review of Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective
I enjoyed Poe’s work and Rue Morgue is one of my favourites. Despite having read Poe, despite having read the adventure of Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin and his nameless narrator I somehow missed the history of the short story. In Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe invents the detective. He invents the detective before the word […]
A review of the Murdoch Mysteries – Let Loose the Dogs
Once again, I have been tasked (albeit a happy one) with a review of another Murdoch Mystery. Once again I have had the opportunity to visit Toronto in the 1890’s and catch up with Detective William Murdoch (who is a thoroughly nice guy), and life is still hard and the weather cold. In this latest […]
Superhero Week: A look at The Fall of Ming
The Fall of Ming is part, the last part, of the Complete Flash Gordon Library. Put together from Alex Raymond’s material and published by Titan this is a fantastic coffee table book and still a wonderful read. It’s a large book. That’s one of the reasons I use the phrase “coffee table” to describe it. […]
A review of Fantasy Flight’s a Game of Thrones card game
The first thing that Fantasy Flight does which makes sense and is yet disappointing is that it keeps the focus on Houses Stark and Lannister. This is only disappointing because the lands of George R. R. Martin’s world are fantastic and I relish every chance to explore them. Sanity check. This is a two player […]
Irregular Reconnaissance: Comic Books #1
Welcome to the first issue of Irregular Reconnaissance. This section of the blog acts as a quick fire series of reviews. Okay, it’s a way to sound off about the comics we’ve been reading and what we think. Full reviews tend to focus on big issues, first issues, last issues or complete series runs. The […]
Review of Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger
Guy Adams’ book Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger is remarkable. It is full of surprises and twists. This review, in the interest of avoiding spoilers, has to avoid those plot developments. Sure, it would be easy to hint at a few and tease just how smart Deadbeat can be but I don’t want to risk taking […]
A review of Clockwork Watch: The Arrival
Clockwork Watch: The Arrival is a graphic novel set in a “retro futuristic” London. It’s steampunk with a flavour of its own. We follow Janav Ranbir, a young Indian boy who travels to England with his highly respected engineering father and his clever mother. Chan Ranbir is a world leading expert in Kinect engineering and […]
Catching up with VS Comics: issue 4
At the start of the year I looked at Mike Garley and James Moran’s VS Comics (issue 1). This is an anthology of stories available across a few digital platforms. Since then Garley’s Eponymous, one of the four stories, has a book of its own and is worth tracking. However, the usual appeal of an […]
A review of 009 Re: Cyborg
009 Re: Cyborg is an anime from Ghost in the Shell’s Kenji Kamiyama and Production I.G. I watched it here in Edinburgh, on a big cinema screen, as it’s the debut title from new Scottish based anime distributor Anime Limited. In short; it’s a cracking film, thoroughly engaging and blisteringly contemporary. Then it stops and […]
