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October 6, 2014
Horus Heresy: The Devine Adoratrice (Short Story Review)
In recent years, Black Library has taken to the short story and novella formats with abundant enthusiasm, as evidence by their fiction release schedules since 2012. Bit by bit, the publisher has shifted focus from the mainstream novel format to the shorter ones, and while I don’t find that to be a healthy change at […]
Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier #1 and Guardians 3000 #1 (Comics Review)
As I’ve mentioned before elsewhere, October 2014 is a big month for Marvel in that the publisher is launching its third big wave of new comics under the Marvel NOW! banner, Avengers NOW! The month sees the release of lots of new titles, such as this week’s Thor featuring a new Thor, a woman this […]
The Death of Wolverine #3 (Comics Review)
Marvel’s The Death of Wolverine is its current big event of the year and though it isn’t exactly on the same scale as Original Sin or Inhumanity or the like, it is still a pretty big deal. But then, the deaths of superheroes, or their closest friends and family members in some cases, are always […]
October 5, 2014
She Returns From War by Lee Collins (Book Review)
Lee Collins’ She Returns From War is the sequel to his 2012 debut The Dead of Winter and it continues the adventures of Wild West spook-hunter Cora Oglesby. After the strong debut, I expected and wanted Lee Collins to do a similarly grand job with the sequel, which is exactly where is excelled at since […]
The Dead of Winter by Lee Collins (Book Review)
One of the many debut writers to get their start in 2012 with Angry Robot Books was Lee Collins, who arrived on the scene with his western urban fantasy novel The Dead of Winter, the first in his Cora Oglesby duology. When I picked up the novel, I didn’t really know too much about it, […]
Sensation Comics #8 (Comics Review)
The first six weeks of Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman have been pretty darn good. Some classic-style stories with often classic-style art as well is what the title has been all about and I love it for that fact. It is different in a great way from the regular ongoing Wonder Woman series, and that’s the big […]
Witchblade #176-178 (Comics Review)
Thanks largely in part to Ron Marz and Laura Braga’s recent work on Witchblade, I’ve gotten into the groove of catching up on the back-issue trades of the series, from when Ron Marz started his run, and it has been a pretty damn good experience as well. But then, I expected that already since I’ve […]
October 4, 2014
The Black Pilgrims and Sanguis Irae (Short Story Review)
Games Workshop’s Space Hulk, a Warhammer 40,000 tabletop classic has recently seen a new lease on life. The game is being brought back for a new generation of players, and to accompany the release of the game itself, Black Library recently put out a quartet of short stories and even a novella focusing on the […]
Vampirella #5 (Comics Review)
It has been clear since the start of the new Vampirella that creators Nancy A. Collins and Patrick Berkenkotter have had a strong direction for the series, as evidenced by the number and type of challenges that the titular character has faced. She is racing against the clock to find a cure for a curse that […]
October 3, 2014
Future’s End #22 (Comics Review)
DC’s second weekly of New 52, Future’s End has been one of my favourite series all year. Week after week it has thrilled and wowed and amazed and boggled with everything that has been happening on Earth Prime five years from the present main DC timeline. After twenty issues of post-fact storytelling, we finally got the […]
