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October 3, 2014
Upcoming: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing by Una McCormack
This year I got back into Star Trek full-time with last year’s latest release, the 5-part The Fall series which tells a crossover story about the murder of the Federation President and the ripple effects that this has on the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, and touches on across all the major Star Trek characters still […]
Upcoming: The Labyrinth of Flame by Courtney Schafer
One of my favourite reads of 2012 was Courtney Schafer’s debut novel The Whitefire Crossing (review). One of the unique things about it was how a significant portion of the novel focused on mountain-climbing and mountain-trekking, borne out of Courtney’s own fondness and hobby of such. Then again last year, when I read The Tainted […]
October 2, 2014
Grayson #3 (Comics Review)
Last month we got a dose of what the future holds for Dick Grayson aka Nightwing aka Agent 37 and his friend and colleague Helena Bertinelli aka Matron. Working for SPYRAL is a pretty dangerous job, and in the first three issues of the new series, we’ve seen that again and again as Dick is […]
Arrow Season 2.5 #3 (Comics Review)
With just one more week to go before CW’s Arrow returns for a third season, things are really heating up in the companion digital-first series Arrow Season 2.5. While trying to stop some drugrunners, both Ollie and Roy are seriously injured and then we see at the end of Arrow Season 2.5 #2 that Brother […]
Van Horstmann by Ben Counter (Book Review)
Another one of Ben Counter’s recent (and great!) works, Van Horstmann is part of the Warhammer Heroes range, though that branding isn’t in use anymore and hasn’t been for a while either. This was also his first novel for Warhammer Fantasy and he proved himself to be a master given that his characters and the […]
Bloodquest: Prisoners of the Eye of Terror by Ben Counter (Audio Review)
I remember reading the old Bloodquest comics quite fondly. Starring the disgraced Blood Angels Captain Leonatos and a bunch of other Blood Angels from across the Chapter’s divisions, Bloodquest was a great story about penance and redemption and heroism. In late 2012 Black Library published the first new Bloodquest story in several years, Prisoners of […]
October 1, 2014
Thor #1 (Comics Review)
With the advent of the Original Sin crossover event earlier this year, Marvel set itself up for some big changes in October. The most startling change was that Thor Odinson was deemed to no longer be worthy of the great hammer Mjolnir. This storyline was introduced in Original Sin #3 where the dead Watcher Uatu’s […]
Gotham Academy #1 (Comics Review)
October is going to be a really huge month this year. Aside from all the new comics that DC is launching this month, there are also big status quo changes in various books, such as over in Batgirl where there is a new creative team and a brand-new arc that is almost like a soft […]
Comics Picks For 24.09.2014
Lightning strikes in the same place for a third time. I mentioned last week that I read 38 singles and 2 graphic novels for that release week, and that holds true for this week as well. I had a chance to read a bit more, but I chose to use that time to get done […]
Agents of SHIELD Season 2 Ep 2 (TV Show Review)
After half-frustrating/half-exciting first season, ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD returned with a second season last week and the premiere established a strong sense of improvement and progression in the meta-story. Now that there aren’t any more Marvel movies scheduled till the middle of next year (there’ll be 2, maybe 3 episodes after the release of […]
